Taking a Liberty resident hostage – No. 4

On Sunday, April 5, in an anti-human act, the Iraqi agents prevented the transfer of Mr. Safar Zakery from detention to the hospital for an operation that had been scheduled two months prior. It is three weeks now that he is being kept in detention in the Ameriya police headquarters of Baghdad on the pretext of a suspicious car accident, especially that as testified by traffic police, Mr. Zakery was not guilty at all for this accident. He is practically being taken hostage at the behest of the Iranian regime by agents under the command of Faleh Fayyad.
Mr. Zakery who suffers of BPH is expected to undergo surgery at the hospital today (Sunday) after waiting for three years for this operation. In the verdict that extended his detention, the investigative judge had specified that he should go to the hospital to undergo his surgery.
On Saturday, April 4, in a revolting histrionics, the police in Ameriya took Mr. Zakery to the hospital for a simple test and then in a fictitious report prepared for the judge stated that the patient has no need for a surgery. This is despite the fact that after waiting for a long time and after the necessary tests, the urology specialist in Baghdad hospital visited him on 18 February 2015 and gave him an appointment for BPH surgery on April 5. The documents relating to his illness, the advice of the specialist physician, and the appointment for surgery have all been given by residents’ representative to the UNHCR, UNAMI, the U.S. officials, and the investigative judge.
This anti-human measure, three weeks into the illegal arrest of Mr. Safar Zakery, leaves no doubt that the terrorist Qods Force and the mullahs’ regime embassy in Baghdad are behind the hostage taking of Mr. Zakery.
Once again, the Iranian Resistance emphasizes that the illegal detention of Mr. Zakery is a blatant breach of the Memorandum of Understanding signed on 25 December 2011 by Government of Iraq and the United Nations, as well as a violation of international refugee law, and that considering the fact that obstructing medical treatment is a crime against humanity whose perpetrators must be prosecuted and put on trial, it calls on the U.S. government, UNAMI and UNHCR that have repeatedly committed themselves to the wellbeing and security of the residents to resort to immediate action to end this hostage taking, secure the freedom of Mr. Zakery, and transfer him to hospital to have his surgery.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 5, 2015.