In its annual report, Amnesty International addressed crimes committed by the Maliki’s government against Ashraf residents in July of 2009.
Part of the report, which includes violations of human rights in Iraq during last year, reads:

Camp Ashraf (Page 179)
Following months of rising tension, Iraqi securityforces forcibly entered and took control of Camp
Ashraf in Diyala Governorate on 28 and 29 July. Thecamp, which houses some 3,400 members or
supporters of the People’s Mojahedeen Organizationof Iran, an Iranian opposition group, had been underUS military control since 2003 prior to the SOFA.

Video footage showed Iraqi security forces deliberatelydriving military vehicles into crowds of protestingcamp residents. The security forces also used liveammunition, apparently killing at least nine campresidents, and detained 36 others who they tortured.

The 36 were taken to al-Khalis police station in Diyala,where they mounted a hunger strike, and were thenmoved to Baghdad despite repeated judicial ordersfor their release. They were freed and allowed toreturn to Camp Ashraf in October after aninternational campaign. However, the government wasreported to be insisting that the camp residents moveto another location in southern Iraq, despite fears thatthey would be less safe there, and to have set 15December as the date by which they should move orbe relocated by force. By the end of the year, campresidents had still not moved.