كانون انديشه ،گفتگو و حقوق بشر در ايران
Centre for Thought, Dialogue and Human Rights in IRan_Toronto
September 12, 2006
Re: The report on systematic violation of Human Rights in MKO /NCRI Camp )Ashraf ـin Iraq
Based on the documents, and testimonies of some former MKO members and their immediate families, the majority of the residents of Camp Ashraf are denied contact with the outside world and their families are banned from visiting them. Recently the Iraqi Government does not even issue visas to those families who hope to visit their relatives in this camp.
As a Human Rights Organization we have been working closely with some families whose children are forcibly kept inside the camp and denied the contact with their parents or leave the camp. In many cases when these families eventually managed to contact their children, they were accompanied by a guard and never alone. For instance, Somaye Mohammdi daughter of Mustafa, was 17 years old when she was taken to Washington, US and then flew to Jordan with a group of youth under the false offer of a month trip to visit Iraq and Jordan. According to Mustafa Mohammadi, her father, MKO authorities seized Somaye’s travel documents in Jordan and never returned them back to her.
In 2004, when Somaye Mohammadi , was interviewed by the delegates of the Canadian Embassy from Jordan at Camp Ashraf, at her request (the copy of her letter in Farsi is attached) Mr. Behzad Safari, the person in charge of judiciary of Camp Ashraf, did not leave Somaye alone throughout the interview although he was asked by the Canadian authorities to do so. Ignoring the fact that the Canadians assured him that there is no need for his presence as they have their own interpreter, Mr. Safari refused to leave and continued monitoring the process that resulted in Someye not being able to speak freely. (A copy of the report by Canadian Embassy is also attached)
In many occasions, these young people are pressured to reject their families and refuse to talk to them out of fear of being labeled as disloyal and agents of the Iranian government and subjected to the routine consequences.
Unfortunately two youths whose name was in the report are dead. The recent case of suicide of Mr. Yaser Akbari Nasab Far, who was a member of MKO and was brought to Iraq form Germany along with his brother, Mossa Akbari Nasab Far, when he was under16, is a clear example of this situation. Yaser, whose numerous requests for leaving the camp/organization have been ignored, finally committed suicide by setting himself on fire sometimes in August 2006. When the MKO officially announced the incident on September 11, 2006, after over a month delay, they claimed that Yaser took his own life in protest to the conditions caused by the U.S. control of the Ashraf.
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