Earlier this week the United States welcomed renewed efforts to relocate the residents of Camp Ashraf which has housed members of an exiled Iranian opposition group[MKO/MEK/PMOI] for years. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland noted the”safe arrival”last week of a sixth convoy of about 400 residents of Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya, ..
I am Hassan Sharqi. I was born in 1954 in the North of Iran. I could manage to release myself from the criminal cult of Rajavi [MKO/MEK/PMOI]after 24 years of imprisonment while I was being interviewed by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on Saturday August 22nd.
The MKO terrorist, identified as Shamsollah Mohammadi, killed himself at the camp, situated about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the border with Iran, on July 28…Excessive mental pressures, psychological problems and a bleak future outlook for the group are said to have driven MKO/MEK/PMOI members in Iraq to despair, prompting some of them to commit suicide…
a former ringleader of the MKO said that over 50 people in Ashraf and Liberty Camps in Iraq have died of cancer, stroke or other incurable diseases during the last 2 years, adding that the MKO aka MEK/PMOI leaders do not allow patients to leave the camps to receive treatment in Iraq’s hospitals.
Time is running out to find a sustainable solution. The government’s patience is wearing thin,”said Kobler, who heads the UN mission in Iraq (UNAMI).”Recent weeks have witnessed difficulties in maintaining dialogue between UNAMI and the residents, and between the residents and the government of Iraq, reinforcing a perception that the residents lack a genuine will”to move,..
According to a security official at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province, one of the oldest members of the Mojahedin Khalq is reported to have committed suicide on the evening of Tuesday, July 16. ..an investigation was opened immediately into the incident.”The security forces reportedly found stab wounds on the body of the victim..
On Tuesday after noon the buses arrived at the Camp, according to Nejat Society reporter. Earlier Nejat Society reported of the arrival of 28 trucks to move the camp’s air conditioners, refrigerators and other equipments.Families picketing in front of Camp Ashraf told of the company of 2 MKO/MEK/PMOI members with the trucks.
According to the MEK’s official website another member of the organization died in Camp Ashraf. The man’s name was announced as Mohammad Taataii. This is the third MEK person who has died during the past two weeks in Camp Ashraf. Last week another MEK high ranking woman, Batoul Rajaii, lost her life in a hospital..
An informed source in the Committee for the Evacuation of Ashraf said that the preparation for the sixth stage of the expulsion of MKO aka MEK/PMOI elements was started on Sunday…28 trucks loaded their belongings at Camp Ashraf and transferred them to Liberty.
The MEK seems to have misinterpreted the June 1 order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. MEK aka MKO/PMOIleaders appear to believe that the Secretary has no choice now but to delist them. That conclusion is quite plainly wrong. In short, the court did not order the Secretary…