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80 human rights organizations from 28 countries called UN secretary General for urgent action on Ashraf

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80 human rights organizations from 28 countries called UN secretary General for urgent action on Ashraf

80 Human Rights Organizations and bodies in 28 countries around the world from France, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Spain, Japan, India, Belgium, Austria, Australia, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Armenia, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Greece, Cyprus, Mali, Indonesia, Philippine, Switzerland, Sweden, Macedonia, Benin, and Britain, in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, wrote: “Agents of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), with the assistance of Iraqi forces under the orders of the Iraqi Prime Ministry, have launched a dirty psychological warfare against Camp Ashraf residents, especially the women, and with the use of 240 loudspeakers around the clock, are blaring threats at the residents…On behalf of 80 human rights organizations in 28 countries around the world, who in a letter addressed to Your Excellency have urged for your intervention to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Camp Ashraf”
This letter which is signed by President of Federation of the Associations of Promotion of Human Rights in Spain reads:


Madrid,
22-3-2011
Dear Mr. Ban Ki-Moon,
The deploring humanitarian conditions in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, home to 3400 Iranian dissidents, has raised great international concern. One of the Iraqi government’s most hideous and shameful measures has been its full cooperation with the Iranian regime in the imposition of an all-out inhumane siege, prohibitions on the free access of the camp’s residents to medical services and the psychological torture of the residents.
Since 2003, in accordance to an agreement signed by the residents with the US government, the responsibility of Ashraf residents’ protection – as ‘protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention until their final determination – was on the shoulders of the US government. However, in January 2009, contrary to the objection of each and every one of the camp’s residents, Ashraf’s security was transferred to the Iraqi government. From the very beginning, an inhumane siege was imposed on Ashraf residents.
Agents of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), with the assistance of Iraqi forces under the orders of the Iraqi Prime Ministry, have launched a dirty psychological warfare against Camp Ashraf residents, especially the women, and with the use of 240 loudspeakers around the clock, are blaring threats at the residents. The forces under the directions of Nouri Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq, through imposing medical restrictions and prohibiting the residents from free access to medical services, have imposed a type of torture on the residents. The lives of a number of the terminally ill and cancer patients in Ashraf, as a result of these restrictions, are at serious risk.
On behalf of 80 human rights organizations in 28 countries around the world, who in a letter addressed to Your Excellency have urged for your intervention to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Camp Ashraf,
I have attached a copy of this letter for you to urge you to:
1. Through an urgent action, call on the Government of Iraq to end the psychological torture of Camp Ashraf residents through 240 loudspeakers;
2. Obligate the Government of Iraq, in accordance with international laws, to immediately lift the all-out siege, in particular the medical blockade, imposed on Camp Ashraf residents;
3. Call on the Government of Iraq to recognize the status of Camp Ashraf residents as ‘protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention;
4. Establish a UNAMI team to monitor the conditions of Camp Ashraf residents as a necessary and urgent action.
 
Respectfully,
 
Fdo.:  J.A. Gimbernat
President of the Federation