29 October 2015 UNHCR strongly condemns today’s rocket attacks in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, which have also hit adjacent Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), reportedly causing injuries to dozens of people of concern and some 20 deaths. Camp Liberty is home to around 2,200 people of concern to the Office. The authorities have evacuated…
Category: July 2009 Attack
Scenes of Iraqi Forces Bloody Attack on Civilian Ashraf Residents
On July 28, 2009, the Iraqi forces, directed by Nuri al-Maliki working at the behest of Iran tyrant rulers, launched a bloody assault on unarmed and defenseless residents of Camp Ashraf. The attack left 11 residents dead, hundreds wounded and 36 abducted. The American forces at the scene refrained from intervening and prevent the assault….
Iraq: The unthinkable happened on July 28th
THE HUFFINGTON POST This eyewitness account by a victim of Iraqi brutality against defenseless Iranian dissidents in Iraq is must reading — on both humanitarian and national interest grounds. Ashraf, Iraq – On October 7, as the sun came up and I sat in my little prison cell in a suburb of Baghdad, I…
Iraq frees 36 Iranian dissidents taken in deadly raid
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities have released 36 Iranian dissidents who had been imprisoned for months, were on hunger strike for weeks and also lately refused water, a spokesman for the prisoners said on Wednesday. The members of the People’s Mujahedeen, an exiled opposition group, were seized during a raid on Camp Ashraf,…
Iranian opposition detainees freed in Iraq
ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD – A group of 36 Iranian opposition members were returned Wednesday to an exile camp in northern Iraq after nearly three months in Iraqi custody and despite an ongoing effort to expel them, a government spokesman said. The men were returned to Camp Ashraf, where nearly 3,500 members of the People’s Mujahedeen…