THE NEW YORK POST Don’t betray Iranian refugees Some 3,400 innocent Iranian dissidents now living in a camp in Iraq are in imminent danger of being slaughtered. These men, women and children — members of Mujahedin-e Khalq, or People’s Mujahedin, a longtime Iranian opposition movement — trusted America’s promise to protect them. But the gradual…
Round-the-Clock Protest at State Department to Demand Swift Decision to Delist MEK and Good Faith Action to Resolve the Humanitarian Crisis at Camp Ashraf
PRNewswire WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Families of Camp Ashraf residents will join Iranian-Americans to begin a round-the-clock sit-in across from the Department of State in protest against the Department’s unlawful delay in completing the Court of Appeals mandated review of the status of Iran’s main opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and delist the…
USCCAR Condemns Ambassador Lawrence Butler’s Outrageous Remarks about Camp Ashraf Residents
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR) condemns the outrageous remarks by Ambassador Lawrence Butler, stationed in Iraq, about the residents of Camp Ashraf and the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The outlandish and totally false allegations by Mr. Butler about the MEK’s past and present – debunked repeatedly…
USCCAR Lauds Unanimous Adoption of House Amendment for Camp Ashraf Protection
PRNewswire WASHINGTON, July 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR) lauds the unanimous adoption of an amendment on the need to prevent the forcible relocation of the residents inside Iraq and facilitate the robust presence of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq in Camp Ashraf, to H.R. 2583, the…
Avoid Another Srebrenica at Camp Ashraf
The Huffington Post At first glance, the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica almost two decades ago has little in common with the plight of some 3,500 dissident Iranians at a place called Camp Ashraf in Iraq. But a closer look shows the opposite. In 1995, Dutch forces serving as UN peacekeepers to monitor the…