The Dutch Group of Friends of a Free Iran, in a letter to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Maliki, wrote: ’ Iraq’s attitude towards these Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf and these 36 abductees is closely been watched by many organisations and supporting groups.’
The text of the letter is as follows:

28 September 2009
Mr Nouri Al-Maliki
Prime Minister of Iraq
Baghdad
Iraq
Honourable Mr. Maliki,

We have just been informed that the Iraqi judge in the city of Khaliss, responsible for the 36 members of the PMOI wh were taken from Ashraf camp on 28 July, has issued his third and final verdict for their immediate release and return to Ashraf.

However the Iraqi forces, apparently following some government orders, are preventing their release. As you know these 36 Iranian exiles are on hunger strike for over 2 months and this latest attempt to keep them in jail will have grave consequences on the credibility of Iraq as a democratic country which should respect the rule of law and obey its own court decisions.

Iraq’s attitude towards these Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf and these 36 abductees is closely been watched by many organisations and supporting groups.

As you know the European Parliament adopted a resolution on Ashraf on 24 April 2009 in which you are kindly asked to

• ensure that no action is taken by the Iraqi authorities which violates the human rights of the
Camp Ashraf residents and to clarify the government’s intentions towards them;

• calls on the Iraqi authorities to protect the lives, and the physical and moral integrity of the
Camp Ashraf residents and to treat them in accordance with the obligations under the
Geneva Conventions;

• and called on the Iraqi Government to end its blockade of the camp.

I would like to ask you personally to make sure the last ruling by the Iraqi court on the 36 PMOI members is implemented and these Iranians returned to Ashraf immediately. I have no doubt that you believe strongly, as we do in this sacred principle of democracy which is the rule of law.

Yours respectfully,
Prof. Dr. Henk de Haan
Chairman of the Dutch Group of Friends Of a Free Iran
The Dutch Group of Friends of a Free Iran
Dutch group FOFI / 28 09 2009 / Urgent call 2

cc.
President Talibani
Foreign Minister Zebari
Hon. Hillary Clinton,
Signed on behalf of the following members:
Drs. Robert Roosenboom, priest and Member of State of the Province of Flevoland;
Leen La Rivière, Member of Board of the CNV Trade Unions of the Netherlands;
Ria La Rivière, Member of Board of the CNV Trade Unions for Artists;
H. Ten Hoeve, Member of the Dutch Senate;
Johan Fukken, teacher;
Ferry Wever, chairman of the Committee for Peace, freedom and democracy in Iran.
And honorable member: Eddy Schuyer, former Member of the Dutch Senate