AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE BRUSSELS — The EU and United States must take in ailing and wounded inmates from a camp in Iraq housing thousands of Iranian dissidents, the leader of an Iranian opposition group said Tuesday. “I urge the European Union and the United States to immediately accept a certain number of sick and wounded…
Statement of European-American Conference in the European Parliament
Statement of European-American Conference in the European Parliament February 7, 2012 A European-American Conference was convened on invitation of the Friends of Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament on February 7, in relation to the current political situation in Iran and the region, and the necessity of protecting Ashraf residents, members of the Iranian…
EU Parliament hosts conf. on situation in Iran
KUWAIT NEWS AGENCY BRUSSELS, Feb 7 (KUNA) — A European-American Conference was convened at invitation of the Friends of Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday on the current political situation in Iran and the region, and the Ashraf camp in Iraq, The conference was presided over by Jim Higgins,…
‘Voluntary’ Imprisonment at Camp Liberty?
THE HUFFINGTON POST Once again the plight of Camp Ashraf attracts international attention. The issue: a statement published by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), headed by Ambassador Martin Kobler, calling on residents to move to Camp Liberty. According to the statement, Camp Liberty – an abandoned US base near Baghdad airport –…
USCCAR Deplores Reckless Decisions by UNAMI’s Chief on Camp Ashraf
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR), representing thousands of Iran-Americans whose loved-ones reside in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, condemns the reckless and potentially harmful assertions made in the January 31 statement issued by Ambassador Martin Kobler, head of United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and UN Secretary General’s…