The United Nations has ‘failed miserably’ to protect Iranian dissidents at Camp Liberty before moving them to safe havens abroad, former US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has told a meeting in US Senate in Washington DC. He branded Camp Liberty a ‘concentration camp’ where Iranian residents are under daily threat of attack from Iraqi…
Video: U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi attends Iranian New Year celebration
NCRI – The leader of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives took part in a celebration on the occasion of Iranian New Year (Nowruz) held at U.S. Congress in solidarity with the residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq. Ileana Ros- Lehtinen , chairwoman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East;, Sheila Jackson Lee ,…
Supporters of a free Iran demand U.S. honor promises
THE WASHINGTON TIMES By James Morrison American supporters of a free Iran are demanding that President Obama honor U.S. promises to provide political refuge to Iranian dissidents crowded into a relocation camp in Iraq where they face daily threats against their lives. The 3,400 dissidents who made up the armed wing of the National Council…
Probe human rights abuses at Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, UN expert demands
NCRI – A full investigation into the serious human rights crimes and abuses against the Iranian opposition members in Camps Ashraf and Liberty must be carried out urgently, a leading United Nations expert has demanded. On September 1, 2013, the Iraqi forces attacked Camp Ashraf and killed 52 members of Iranian opposition the People’s Mojahedin…
Iran exiles demand end to Iraq ‘blockade’
Agence france Press (AFP), in a report wired from it’s Geneva office on Friday March 14, wrote: An exiled Iranian opposition group on Friday urged the international community to help lift the “blockade” of a refugee camp near Baghdad and called for an investigation into killings at a second camp. “We are asking for the…