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UNHCR: Camp Ashraf residents have to renounce violence before applying for refugee status

Nejat SocietyApril 14, 2011080 views

A spokesman for the UN High Commission on Refugees, Andrej Mahecic, said residents of Camp Ashraf could apply individually for refugee status, which would help them find a permanent home.But before that could happen, they would have to renounce violence as a means of achieving their goals, which some have refused to do, he added.Shahin Gobadi, a PMOI/MKO/MEK spokesman based in Paris, said the camp residents would be willing to move to the US or EU member states willing to grant them asylum.”We have no intention of staying in Iraq, but there has been no response,”he told the Reuters news agency.

US moots ‘negotiated’ plan for Iranian camp (Ashraf) in Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011071 views

..Iraq has ordered the exiled Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen of Iran [MKO/MEK/PMOI] to leave the country by the end of this year”We’re prepared to help the government of Iraq develop and execute a negotiated plan ..,”State Department spokesman Mark Toner said….When asked whether the plan could include having the camp’s members transferred to a third country where they would not be tortured or abused, Toner replied:”Conceivably, yeah.”

Talabani informs European ambassadors with the Iraqi stance toward Mujahideen Khalq

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011074 views

President jalal Talabani informed the European Union, Russian, and Turkish ambassadors in Iraq with the Iraqi stance toward the Mujahideen Khalq Organization and its presence in Iraq now.A presidential statement mentioned that political developments, regionally and internationally, were discussed during the meeting.

Iraq to probe Camp Ashraf deaths

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011088 views

..Iraq’s defence ministry said on Tuesday it would probe claims that 34 residents of an Iranian dissident[MKO/MEK/PMOI] camp[Ashraf] died during an Iraqi military operation last week and suggested some may have been killed before troops moved in… Iraqi authorities have said three people were killed at Camp Ashraf on Friday when security forces responded to rock-throwing and threats by residents during an operation to reclaim land from the camp and return it to farmers. ..

Deadline Set For Iranian Dissidents To Leave Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011079 views

The Iraqi government has set the deadline for members of Iranian dissident group being housed at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province to leave the country, stressing that they will be removed from the country by the deadline using”all means”available…ndicating that the Iraqi government was”taking into consideration the wish of the PMOI members to choose the country in which they wish to reside,”Dabbagh added:”We have to find a nation where they can go, and we will look to the U.N. to help.”

Iraq to deport Mujahideen Khalq by year end

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011082 views

The government reaffirms a previous commitment to deport MKO members, who are based on the New Iraq Camp, by end of this year, he said in a statement.The government”underscores importance of getting MKO out of the Iraqi territories by all means, including political and diplomatic, and in cooperation with the UN and international organizations..

Dabbagh: Cabinet committed to end MKO presence in Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011085 views

Minister of State and Official Speaker of Government, Ali Dabbagh, said,”The Council of Ministers asserted its earlier decision to liquidate the presence of the Iranian Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), by the end of the current year.

Diyala calls on Government to expel Washington backed MKO terrorists

Nejat SocietyApril 12, 2011078 views

… the role of the Mojahedin-e Khalq”was and remains negative in the security landscape through its support for acts of violence and abuse of Iraqis over three consecutive decades”, adding that a clause in the Iraqi constitution, which was voted for by the millions,”indicates that to clearly ensure the state does not allow the presence of any terrorist organization inside Iraqi territory, it is necessary for federal government to expel the Iranian MKO known as terrorists ..

Six Mojahedin Khalq members arrested in Diala, Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 11, 2011076 views

… “The six MEK members were arrested by Iraqi forces in accordance with Article 413 of the law after they were suspected of involvement in recent incidents in the camp that left dozens of its inhabitant and Iraqi security forces killed or wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He did not elaborate on the nature of charges that will be pressed against them. ..“The Iranian group clashed with the Iraqi forces, prompting the Iraqi security to open fire on them, killing three MEK refugees,” an Iraqi security source said …

Government forbids MKO terrorists from operating in Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 10, 2011075 views

… Al-Dabbagh says that the government is working to forbid terrorist organizations from operating in Iraq. Ali al-Musawi, media adviser to the prime minister, says that the Iraqi forces were executing a judicial decree to return 50 square kilometers around the camp [Ashraf] to their owners. Al-Musawi described the [Iranian] Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI as a terrorist organization that cannot force an independent country such as Iraq to approve its existence on its territories …