In a letter to UN Secretary General, 41 international and nationwide organizations from 25 countries across the world, expressed their support for the Ashraf residents’ rights and warned against continuance of brutal siege of Ashraf.
These 41 international organization condemned limitations on Ashraf residents in having access to medicine, doctors and medical necessities, fuel for civilian use and banning the residents from profit-making activities, and preventing entry of residents’ relatives to the camp for family visits by the Committee at the Iraqi prime minister’s office, namely “Committee to close down Ashraf.”     
            
The letter of 41 international organizations partly reads:

Dear Secretary-General,
Camp Ashraf in Iraq is residence to 3,400 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) who have built it during the last 23 years.  Following occupation of Iraq, in 2004, the residents of Ashraf were recognized as ’protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention. The deadly attacks on defenseless Ashraf residents in July 2009 – carried out by the Iraqi forces – have made the situation in Ashraf into an international humanitarian issue.
The U.S.A. handed over the protection and control of the camp to the Iraqi forces at the beginning of 2009. However, the Government of Iraq, contrary to the guarantees it had given for respecting the rights of camp’s residents, through a Committee at the Iraqi prime minister’s office, expeditiously imposed a complete siege on Ashraf.
The policy of suppression and exerting pressure on the residents, which has been repeatedly demanded by the Iranian government, turned violent.  Concurrent with the suppression of the opposition and the Iranian people seeking freedom and a democratic change during nationwide demonstrations inside Iran, on 28-29July 2009, the Iraqi army and police forces brutally attacked the unarmed civilian residents of Ashraf.  During these unprovoked attacks against the camp, 11 residents were killed, more than 500 wounded, and 36 residents were arbitrarily arrested. According to independent reports, the Iraqi forces immediately placed these 36 residents under torture.
The following day, the Iranian authorities fervently welcomed this humanitarian catastrophe at the camp. For example, in a state-run TV program, Iranian regime parliament speaker Ali Larijani, expressed hope that the Iraqi government would not allow the residents to remain in Iraq. He added, ’we welcome the move (raiding the camp) although it was late.’
Unfortunately, the Iraqi government has acted in complete disregard for continuous protests of thousands of European and American lawmakers and international and humanitarian organizations. A year-long experience has shown that the Iraqi government not only has no intention of protecting defenseless Ashraf residents, but it has placed them under complete siege and has conducted attacks against them.
Therefore, in order to save the lives of Ashraf residents whose annihilation has become the mandate of the Iranian regime more than ever due to escalating uprisings for freedom inside Iran, the following articles should be immediately pursued by the monitoring organs of Camp Ashraf – the U.S. and the UN – to prevent another humanitarian catastrophe:
1. The United Nations should undertake the responsibility to protect Ashraf residents because the Iraqi government has proven during last year that it has neither the intention nor the ability or the competence to protect Ashraf residents.
2. Until UN forces assume responsibility for protection of Ashraf residents, U.S. forces in Iraq should guarantee that residents would not be subject to attack, brutality and forced displacement
3. Until Ashraf residents are transferred to a member state of EU or the U.S., the Iraqi government should officially admit to the rights of Ashraf residents according to the resolution adopted by the European Parliament on April 24, 2009, on Ashraf.

 Sincerely,
1- Association of Humanitarian Lawyers – USA (AHL)
2- International Educational Development-USA
3- Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers-Britain
4- Japanese Lawyers International Solidarity Associations
5- Italian association of democratic lawyers
6- Jananeethi& Jananeethi Institute for Justice- INDIA
7- The Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights
8- Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights
9- Institute of Peace and Democracy- Azerbaijan
10- “God Believers Horizon” (World Peace & Earth Saving Mission) –India
11- Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity
12- Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha(MASUM)
13- International Society for Human Rights –Kenya
14- International Society for Human Rights – Sweden
15-  International Society for Human Rights- Armenia national group
16- Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan
17- Civil Society Institute -Armenia
18- Mouvement National de Réconciliation du Bénin (MONAR-BENIN)
19- Professor Bill Bowring Barrister, Professor of Law
20-   Karen Parker, JD, Specializing in Humanitarian Law
21- Human Rights Association of Spain
22- ’The International Sakharov Committee’           
23- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia
24- Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
25- Pathways To Peace- USA
26- Italian Centre Of Solidarity
27- The Union For Sustainable Return And Integrations In Bosnia And Herzegovina
28- PAX CHRISTI  INTERNATIONAL
29- International Jurist Organization       
30- Peace Makers Society- Cameroon
31- Federación De Asociaciones De Defensa Y Promoción De Los Derechos Humanos-España
32- International Association For Religious Freedom (IARF)
33- International Society for Human Rights –Australia
34- Philippine Alliance Of Human Rights Advocates (Pahra)
35- Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR)
36- Citizens’ Watch’, Petersburg, Russia
37- Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l – Beglium
38- Association of Independent Jurists For Defence of Human Rights _ Iraq
39- Residents Association of Egyptian Jurists in Defense of Ashraf Residents
40- National Center of Justice
41-  Nationale De Fiefa/Mir.Mad,Mouvement Internationale De La Réconciliation, Madagascar