Category: July 2009 Attack

 DPA Baghdad – Iraqi authorities on Wednesday freed 36 members of an Iranian opposition group detained during July clashes between Iraqi security forces and members of the group. The detainees were taken into custody during clashes between members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) and Iraqi security forces entering the group’s base at Camp…

Miami Herald – McClatchy News Service Despite a judge’s order to free 36 Iranian dissidents, Iraqi security officials forcibly transferred them to a prison in southern Iraq. BAGHDAD — Iraqi security officials beat and forcibly transferred 36 members of an Iranian dissident group to a remote southern prison despite an Iraqi judge’s orders to free…

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE STRASBOURG, September 30, 2009 (AFP) – Council of Europe parliament members on Wednesday called on the United Nations and the United States to guarantee the safety of Iranian dissidents at a camp in Iraq following clashes in July. Iraqi forces launched a deadly raid on Camp Ashraf, in Diyala province near the…

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE KHALES, September 29, 2009 (AFP) – Iraqi authorities have refused to allow 36 Iranian dissidents seized in a July raid to return to their base despite a court ruling they must be released, a judicial official said on Tuesday. The members of the People’s Mujahedeen, an exiled opposition group, were arrested by…

ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The Archbishop of Canterbury said Sunday that the U.S. and Iraq must protect the residents of Camp Ashraf from violence and abuse.The situation in Camp Ashraf “constitutes a humanitarian and human rights issue of real magnitude and urgency,” Archbishop Rowan Williams said in a statement on his Web site. “There is…