INTV, 6 Nov 2013 – A group of PMOI family members in a statement called for the release of 7 Ashraf hostages in Maliki’s prisons. The family members stated: “Any silence and inaction vis-à-vis this hostage taking is collaboration with the dictator of New Iraq. The hands of the criminal Maliki are stained with the blood of PMOI members. Do not whitewash his hands with your silence.”
The family members addressed President Obama and wrote: “President Obama! End the policy of appeasement and conciliation with the criminals and stand alongside the Iranian people and Resistance. The responsibility of the protection of PMOI members at Liberty lies on the shoulders of the US Government.
Nurses in Western Tehran stressed in a statement: “The scene of the appalling crime and massacre of 52 PMOI members at Ashraf and the abduction of 7 residents is the result of the Western countries’ siding with the bloodthirsty religious dictatorship in Iran. The US Government has pledged to protect the PMOI. Yet this pledge was broken and betrayed. And they are now seeking to wipe clean Maliki’s bloody hands by keeping silent about the demand to free 7 hostages. We the nurses of  western Tehran strongly demand the immediate release of the 7 hostages currently captive in Maliki’s prisons. The US must fulfill its obligation in this regard.”
The Youths of Sari (northern Iran) announced in a statement:  “We urge the US Government and Mr. Obama to take action for the unconditional release of the 7 hostages. This is our most crucial demand, the immediate release of 6 women and a man from Maliki’s prisons…”
Students from the Khouzestan Free University announced in a statement: “We …, have followed up on the news about the appalling crime and massacre of 52 residents at Ashraf. Forces under the command of Maliki (Iraq’s Prime Minister), after committing a crime against humanity at Ashraf, abducted 7 residents…. It is now two months that we have no news of their conditions.