The families of the members of Mojahedin Khalq in Camp Liberty can now get news about their loved ones on the following hotline:
00964-7809174160
Families can also contact UN authorities responsible for Camp Liberty through:
irqaascp@unhcr.org
We would appreciate it if human rights organisations and others inside and outside Iran could provide this information to the families of the residents of Camp Liberty.
Translated by Iran Interlink
Update No. 12
Update on the situation of residents of the Hurriya Temporary Transit Location
• UNHCR strongly condemns rocket attacks of 29 October 2015 which hit several precincts in the vicinity of 
Baghdad International Airport, including the Hurriya Temporary Transit Location (TTL) (also known as Camp Liberty). The impact on the Hurriya TTL resulted in the deaths of more than 20 residents and dozens of others were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries sustained in the attack.
• Following the attack the High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres made the following statement: “This is a most deplorable act, and I am greatly concerned at the harm that has been inflicted on those living at Camp Liberty. Every effort must continue to be made for the injured and to identify and bring to account those responsible.”
• UNHCR and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) have been working since 2011 to find relocation opportunities outside Iraq for residents of the Hurriya TTL. These people formerly resided at Camp Ashraf (also known as Camp New Iraq). Approximately 2,160 of this group remain in the Hurriya TTL.
• UNHCR considers that all residents of the Hurriya TTL who are registered with UNHCR are persons of concern to UNHCR. They are entitled to protection against expulsion or forced movement to any place where their lives or freedom would be threatened. The Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Iraq and the United Nations explicitly recognizes that residents benefit from the principle of non-refoulement.
• Working with States and its partners UNHCR has supported the relocation of more than 900 residents to safe third countries since 2011. The solutions being delivered by UNHCR are current with more than 260 residents relocated since July 2015. Arrangements are in place to relocate in excess of 200 more people by the end of 2015.
• UNHCR deeply appreciates the measures taken by some countries already to relocate residents to situations of safety and security. Albania’s exceptional contribution to this humanitarian endeavor merits special note. These measures contribute greatly to international efforts to find solutions for this group of people.
• UNHCR urgently renews its calls upon governments of other countries to find ways to offer long term solutions for the residents who remain at the Hurriya TTL. If long term solutions cannot be made available immediately, the urgent need to relocate the residents would justify an extraordinary evacuation to a safer temporary platform from where they could be permanently relocated to a third country. UNHCR stands ready to assist states in achieving this objective.
• This appeal for help should be read in light of the potential for more attacks on the Hurriya TTL. As well as the attack of October 2015, residents of the Hurriya TLL suffered three rocket attacks in 2013, each of which resulted in deaths and injuries. There was also an attack on Camp New Iraq in September 2013 which left 52 dead and seven persons missing. The latest attack demonstrates that the current conflict and generalized violence across Iraq leaves residents of the Hurriya TTL open to significantly heightened security risks and it emphasizes the need for a quick and pragmatic action on the part of States to ensure that these people are relocated to a situation of safety and security.
• UNHCR continues to call upon the Government of Iraq to take all possible measures to ensure the safety and well-being of residents, including ensuring access to life saving medical treatment.
UNHCR
Geneva, 30 October 2015
Iraqi Militia Attacks MeK Camp, Killing 26
Yesterday’s attack on the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) base at Camp Liberty, a strike which killed 26 people, has been claimed by the al-Mukhtar Army, a Shi’ite militia active in the ongoing war against ISIS. The group says they’d warned the MeK to leave Iraq as soon as possible, and promised more attacks if they don’t.
The Camp Liberty base has been wildly controversial in Iraq, as the MeK, primarily an Iranian opposition faction, was an ally of the Saddam Hussein government ousted in the 2003 US invasion. At the time, the MeK was still listed as a terrorist organization in the US, but the group was left in the camp irrespective of this, pending some eventual resettlement that never came.
The MeK’s status as a Saddam ally, and it’s continued hostility toward the Iranian government, a close ally of the current Iraqi government, has made it a common target for Shi’ite factions in the country, and militias like the al-Mukhtar Army are given increasingly free reign with the growing ISIS war.
Though the militia was quite clear about having carried out the attack themselves, the MeK issued a statement blaming the Iranian government for the attack. The US issued a statement condemning the attack and vowed to support the relocation of the MeK to some other place.
by Jason Ditz,
Iraqi militia have threatened more attacks following a rocket barrage that killed at least 26 people at an opposition camp near Baghdad. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has condemned the attack.
Camp Hurriya (Liberty), a former US military base, has housed members of the People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) since 2012, a group that had fought alongside Saddam Hussein’s forces in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
On Thursday at least 15 rockets crashed in and around the camp near Baghdad’s international airport killing more than two dozen people.
Iraqi joint operations command spokesman Yahya Rasool said investigation is underway and that two Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack. An abandoned truck mounted with rocket tubes had been recovered in Bakriya, north of the camp, he said.
"The people behind this attack are terrorist criminals who want to destabilize the country," Yasol told Reuters news agency, without specifying any group or nation.
Shiite militia warns of further attacks
A Shiite Muslim militia in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the attack – the deadliest in years – that targets the Iranian opposition.
"We warned the members of this terrorist organization to leave Iraq as soon as possible … If they don’t do so, there will be more similar attacks," al-Mukhtar Army commander Wathiq al-Battat was quoted as saying by Iran’s Fars news agency.
The PMOI stands accused by rights groups of taking part in the brutal suppression of a 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam Hussein, making it widely reviled by members of Iraq’s own Shiite Arab majority, which came to power after the US-led Iraq invasion in 2003.
EU, UN, US line up to condemn attack
UN chief Ban Ki-moon "condemns the attack… on Camp Hurriya, near the Baghdad International Airport, which left at least 26 residents dead and many more wounded," the general secretary’s office said Friday in a statement.
"This is a most deplorable act, and I am greatly concerned at the harm that has been inflicted on those living at Camp Liberty.” the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said. "Every effort must continue to be made for the injured and to identify and bring to account those responsible."
US Secretary of State John Kerry said efforts to relocate the members – in the works for years – should be accelerated.
"No matter the circumstances, on this point we remain absolute: the United States remains committed to assisting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the relocation of all Camp Hurriya residents to a permanent and safe location outside of Iraq," Kerry said in a statement.
“It is crucial that the Iraqi government fully investigate the incident and immediately step up security at the camp in line with its duty of protection of the camp residents under the December 2011 agreement with the United Nations,” the EU’s external affairs office said in a statement.
PMOI had been delisted as a ‘terror organization’
Until a few years ago, PMOI — also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) — was listed as a terrorist organization by both the US and the European Union.
Shahin Gobadi, a PMOI spokesman, accused "agents of the clerical (Iranian) regime inside the government of Iraq" of launching the attack and also placed responsibility on the Iraqi government and the United Nations.
The group, which critics have described as a cult, enjoys a well-connected network of former and current officials who advocate on its behalf.
Following an intensive lobbying campaign, it succeeded in being removed from the US and EU terror lists.
But around 3,000 remaining dissidents at Camp Hurriya are still waiting to be relocated to other countries.
Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are personally responsible for the deaths of 25 residents along with several Iraqi soldiers during a katyusha attack aimed at Camp Liberty yesterday. Maryam Rajavi’s only response has been to say ‘we warned you repeatedly this would happen’.
In the context of real events in Iraq this sounds more like a wish than a warning. What Rajavi does not reveal is that, in spite of fears of exactly the kind of attack she has repeatedly looked forward to, she and her husband have consistently refused to allow the MEK members to leave Iraq and take refuge in third countries. Since 2003, successive Iraqi governments have ruled the MEK’s presence in Iraq unconstitutional and have worked with the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Iraq’s ministry of human rights and the Iranian embassy in Iraq to find a safe and peaceful way to remove all the MEK from Iraq. With the principle of non-refoulement accepted by all other parties as the basis of this programme, only the MEK leaders refused to cooperate.
Even when the resident’s families and even the MEK’s own lobbyists in the West like Rudi Giuliani, John Bolton, Brian Binley and Struan Stevenson, have tried to rescue the individuals trapped in the MEK camps in Iraq, the Rajavis have time and time again refused to let them go or to let them be helped. Even though many individuals who managed to escape the camps have made their way to safety in Europe. Even though millions of refugees fleeing Syria and Iraq have made their way to Europe. Even though the UN negotiated a safe haven in Albania to which it is slowly but surely transferring the remaining residents of Camp Liberty. If Rajavi had allowed these people to leave five years ago, these tragic deaths would not have occurred.
The MEK has many enemies in Iraq. As part of Saddam Hussein’s repressive apparatus and known as ‘Saddam’s Private Army’, the Rajavis and their MEK are responsible for the deaths of over 25,000 Iraqi citizens. In this context we may never discover who launched yesterday’s or any previous attacks on the MEK in Iraq. What we can state with absolute certainty, however, is that the Rajavis caused these deaths because in spite of giving ‘repeated warnings’ they refused to allow these vulnerable individuals to be taken to safety. They deliberately left them in harms way.
It should now be clear to everyone that the reason behind Massoud Rajavi’s insistence on keeping people in Iraqi is not because these aging and sick people are involved in a struggle against Iran. It is because of the ideology which he created after being released from prison in 1979 and began acting as the MEK’s spokesman. This ideology is simply expressed as ‘kill for publicity’. From 30th June 1981, the Eternal Light operation in 1988, the self-immolations in Europe in 2004 and the repeated attacks on Camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq, in all these cases Rajavi has caused deaths in order for an MEK spokesman to have a media interview and cry victim. The result is simply the continued survival of the MEK brand. The cost is counted in the lives of people who could easily be helped. These are not martyrs to a cause, they are victims of Rajavi’s vanity. Camp Liberty is nothing more than a blood bank waiting to be spent by Rajavi.
At least 20 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have reportedly been killed in an 
incident during which a barrage of rockets was fired at their camp in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Iraqi police confirmed that at least 15 rockets had slammed into Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty) near Baghdad International Airport on Thursday night, AFP reported.
“Fifteen rockets were fired from Bakriya around and on the edge of Camp Liberty,” the Baghdad Operations Command said.
This is while the terrorist group has reportedly said that 23 of its members were killed and that two dozen others were wounded in the attack. The group also claimed that some 80 rockets had rained down on the camp.
Three Iraqi soldiers guarding the camp were also killed and at least 16 others wounded during the rocket attack, according to Iraqi police.
In an interview with Fars news agency on Friday, Wathiq al-Battat, the leader of Iraq-based Mukhtar Army, claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks.
In December 2011, the United Nations (UN) and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf, now known as Camp New Iraq, to Camp Hurriyet, a former US military base.
The last group of the MKO terrorists was evicted by the Iraqi government in September 2013 and relocated to Camp Hurriyet to await potential relocation to third countries.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis.
In 1986, the terrorist group’s members fled Iran for Iraq, where they received now-executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s support and set up Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border.
A barrage of rockets slammed late Thursday into a former military base near the Baghdad International Airport that houses an Iranian refugee group, killing three Iraqi soldiers, officials said. The Iranian exiles said at least 20 of their people died in the attack.
Iraqi police said 16 rockets hit Camp Liberty, a former U.S. base that now houses the exiled Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq. They said at least 16 soldiers guarding the camp were also wounded while the Iranian group, known as MEK, said dozens of Iranian refugees were wounded as well.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
The statement from Mujahedeen-e-Khalq said that “due to darkness of the night, the exact number of dead and wounded has not been established.”
Police said that there may be casualties among the exiled group, but noted they did not report them to the local authorities so they could not determine how many civilians were hit in the attack. The MEK statement on casualty figures could not be independently verified because of the late hour of the attack and the camp’s inaccessibility to media.
A police official added that the rockets landed far enough from the airport that they did not disrupt commercial traffic. A hospital official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
This was not the first attack since Camp Liberty became home to the Iranian group, which is strongly opposed to Iran’s clerical regime. Last year, the Islamic State group was said to have fired rockets near to Baghdad International Airport as it attempted to destabilize the capital.
Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq were welcomed into Iraq by Saddam Hussein in the 1980s during the brutal war with neighboring Iran. Their fortunes turned sharply with the Iraqi dictator’s toppling in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Iraq’s current Shiite-led Iraqi government, which has strengthened ties with Tehran, considers their presence in the country illegal.
The group regularly reports worsening health conditions within their isolated camp and accuses the Iraqi government of neglect and human rights abuses.
VIVIAN SALAMA,
Associated Press writer Murtada Faraj contributed to this report from Baghdad.
After a week-halt on the relocation process, it was resumed on October 21st.
37 more TTL residents transferred to Albania in two groups, Peyvand-e rahayee Website reported.
The Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult leaders stopped the transfers under the pretext of Tasua & Ashura rituals and ceremonies of October 22nd (annual of the so called Maryam Rajavi’s election as the president–elect of Iran by NCR headed by Massoud Rajavi).
However the UNHCR representatives and Iraqi government and USA officials who are tasked with managing and supervising the relocation process denied the pretexts and required the moves to be resumed.
Names of the transferred persons are as follows; some names may be aliases.
“It would be easy to ignore the condition and plight of 2400 Iranians who are at Camp Liberty in Iraq. There’s so much before this committee, there’s so much disorder in the world. But, the plight of these 2400 really involves some important considerations for our country.” Joe Lieberman.
On the 7th of October (2015) the Committee on Armed Services US Senate Hearing heard testimony on the 
Iranian Influence in Iraq and the case of Camp Liberty. And guess who was chairing the committee – John McCain – “The Maestro of the Arab Wars” (my article in September last year).
Well, who is at Camp Liberty? The People’s Mojahedin of Iran (MEK).
Founded in 1965 by a group of left-leaning Muslim Iranian university students, they were devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran. While the MEK’s leadership has resided in Paris, the group’s core members were, for many years, confined to Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The MEK was listed as a terrorist organization, but this was lifted in 2012, and the group’s remaining 3,200 members were recently compelled to move to ex-U.S. military base Camp Liberty.
This is what some people had to say about the MEK:
Richard Armitage (U.S. deputy secretary of state, 2001-05) –
“…from my point of view they were terrorists.”, but “…there were some in the administration who wanted to use the Mujahideen-e Khalq as a pressure point against Iran.”
Mohammad Jafari, Iranian National Security Council –
“…over the past four years the United States has put them under its protection in Iraq and has used them to spy on the Islamic Republic.” (2007)
So why the Senate hearing and the discussion around the MEK in Camp Liberty? (transcript here) And who was giving testimony?
The former US senator, Joseph Lieberman, Chair of Public Policy and Public Service, Yeshiva University was at the hearing. These are extracts of what he said to the committee:
“What does the plight of these 2400 Iranian dissidents, who are opponents of the dictatorial regime in Tehran – what does it say to us about larger policy questions for the United States in the region?…”
He then quotes former attorney general and Federal judge, Michael Mukasey, and relates how the US moved the MEK from Ashraf to the safety of Camp Liberty. He continues…
“If you look at the history of these Iranian dissidents — you could call them “freedom fighters”…
They have quite literally, as many of you know, provided extraordinarily important intelligence to American forces in Iraq during the period after the overthrow of Saddam… (and the Iranian nuclear program)… and they believe in freedom. I mean, their leader — it’s quite remarkable, they’re a moderate Muslim group, they’re against the extremism of the current regime. They are quite refreshingly led by a woman who has put out a 10-point plan that embraces freedom of speech, separation of church and state, free elections, and a non-nuclear Iran…
So, let me wind up with this — or conclude with this observation and, hopefully, suggestion. The Iranian nuclear agreement with Iran has been — is about to be executed…. They’re (Iran) continuing to support terrorist groups throughout the region. …as Chairman McCain said, there — they made a deal with the Russians to move more aggressively into Syria to back Assad, who we have said we feel definitely has to go.
…And here’s the point I want to make about the National Council of Resistance of Iran and other democratic opposition groups that are Iranian. We ought to be supporting them. This regime in Tehran is hopeless. It’s not going to change. There’s no evidence it’s going to — every piece of evidence is the contrary. So, I hope we can find a way — we used to do this, not so long ago, supporting opposition groups in Iran. They deserve our support, and actually they’re a — they would constitute a form of pressure on the government in Tehran that would unsettle them as much as anything else we could do, because it would threaten the survival of the regime, which, from every objective indicator I can see, is a very unpopular regime in Iran.
…And I think it’s time for us to do that in Iran. And there’s no better place to begin than by securing the residents of Camp Liberty and assuring their safe passage away from the Iranian thugs. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”
Lieberman casually declares his suggestion and intent to disrupt the government of another country by supporting a once-declared terrorist group. Why would Lieberman be concerned about the rights and freedoms of Iranians. He is not, yet pretends to be.
Let us be clear. There was never a threat of WMD from Iraq, yet the country was deliberately destroyed and looted with the help of Western governments. Muammar Gaddafi was targeted and Libya was destroyed. “They” then moved their attention to Bashar al-Assad and Syria. And now Joe Lieberman’s suggestion is the destruction of Iran.
And, let us not forget – “they” still seem to be trying to implement the “destruction of seven countries in five years” plan. Although they are behind schedule, “they” seem intent on the destruction of Iran.
This is what Retired General Wesley Clark said back in 2007.
These men are truly evil and mad. These type of devious suit-wearing warmongers should never be given the microphone at a Senate hearing, but should rather be answering questions in the dock of a courtroom.
by Dalia Mae, Gumshoe News.com
On October 14th and 15th , 39 more Camp Liberty residents transferred to Albania in two groups.
The relocation process has been halted for a week and it is due to be resumed on October24th; after Tasua & Ashura 
ceremonies (Shia Muslims rituals to mark Karbala tragedy), Peyvand-e Rahayee Website reported.
A total number of 95 individuals transferred to Albania in the last 5 groups of relocations.
The names of the two last groups are as follows:
The fourth group:
The Fifth group:
