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Ostracism of Mojahedin Khalq in Europe may lead to expulsion to Albania
The UK government has again rejected any possibility of Maryam Rajavi, de facto leader of the Mojahedin Khalq (MEK), entering the UK. Rajavi is currently based in France but visited Albania over several weeks earlier this year to be with her followers who are now…
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MKO Leader loses appeal at Supreme Court to get entry into UK
also helped Saddam in his domestic campaigns of repression in Iraq. Until 2008 it was on Europe’s terror list. But since then there’s been efforts to bring the group in from the cold. Rajavi has been banned from entering the UK. But Lord Carlile, who’s…
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MKO Leader loses appeal at Supreme Court to get entry into UK
The MKO also joined forces with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during his war against Iran in the 1980s and also helped Saddam in his domestic campaigns of repression in Iraq. Until 2008 it was on Europe’s terror list. But since then there’s been efforts…
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UK Hesitant about Admitting MKO Terrorists as Refugees
Harper also said that the UNHCR has submitted 17 assessments to the Home Office, adding that “no decision has yet been reached”.Earlier in July 2013, a British life peer said in an interview with Habilian Association that western European states are not at all wishful…
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Britain may admit 17 Liberty residents with no links to terrorism
We have agreed to consider, exceptionally, their re-admission as refugees, subject to a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assessment of each individual to ensure that none have been complicit in acts of terrorism or other activities incompatible with refugee status. Thus far, UNHCR have…
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UK condemns violence at Camp Ashraf in Iraq
Our Embassy in Baghdad is in close contact with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, who are making an urgent assessment of the situation. We support their work, and call on the Government of Iraq to assist the UN fully...
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Debate over Camp Liberty in UK parliament
It is not a refugee camp as such; it is a place where individuals are being assessed as to the countries to which they could be relocated. Four have already come to the United Kingdom, a fifth who was offered that has decided not to…
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Camp Liberty living standards better than many Iraqis
The UN visit Camp Liberty, where the majority of former residents of Camp Ashraf now live, several times a week, and report that facilities at the camp meet international humanitarian standards. For example, residents have access to electricity 24 hours a day and over 200…
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UK supports UN and GOI efforts to transfer MEK members
The UN has said publicly, however, that under the terms of the memorandum of understanding, conditions at Camp Liberty[TTL] would meet basic humanitarian standards including: adequate accommodation; dining and food preparation facilities; hygiene infrastructure (water and sanitation); medical care;..
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U.K. ready to help re integrate up to fifty MKO members
The one British citizen we were aware was in Camp Ashraf has left and returned to the UK. Of the five Iranian residents of Camp Ashraf with valid UK refugee travel documents, four have left Camp Ashraf and arrived in the UK. The fifth is…
