Dear Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross,
With respect and best wishes for your success,
we, the families whose names are listed below, in Iran and Kermanshah province, would like to inform you that one of our family members was captured by the Iraqi army during the Iran-Iraq war four decades ago.
Each of them spent the war and the end of the ceasefire in camps and detention centers in Iraq. During those years, we, the families, were informed of the status of our captive members through letters from the International Committee of the Red Cross based in Iraq.
We would like to inform you that 37 years have passed since the ceasefire between Iran and Iraq and the government has changed in Iraq, but our family members have not yet been exchanged and returned to their families.
According to Article 118 of the Third Geneva Convention, prisoners of war must be released and returned to their country immediately after the end of active hostilities. Despite this article, our children have not been exchanged 37 years after the end of the war.
According to the information we have received from the released prisoners, we learned that our children were injected by the dictatorial regime of Saddam in a deal with the terrorist group Mujahedin-e-Khalq, which was based in Iraq at that time, and the International Red Cross was deceived into believing that they freely chose to join this group. And now, for several decades, this injustice has been done to our prisoners.
Therefore, we, their families, ask you, as the International Red Cross, whose duty is to free our captive children, to take action regarding the release of our children. It is necessary to clarify that the Mujahedin-e-Khalq organization, which has taken our children into second captivity, has left Iraq and has a camp called Ashraf 3 in Albania, so we ask you for help in freeing our loved ones.
Thank you in advance,
Names of prisoners:
Ali Sepah Amiri/Yahya Moradpour/Nowrooz Darvishi/Alireza Jafari/Ali Ashraf Maleki/Houshang Moradi/Abdolkarim Karimi/Mohammad Ali Parva/Ali Asghar Darvish Tabar/Alimorad Lotfi/Mosayeb Rashidi/Alireza Khalo Kakaei/Ali Yousefi.