Call on US to free hostages; if they are extradited the US is responsible

Based on the latest reports received from within the mullahs’ regime, the seven Ashraf hostages, six of whom are women, are still being held by forces under the command of Maliki in a Baghdad prison near the airport. They are on hunger strike. The hostages are each being held in separate cells and no one is allowed to enter the site.
Maliki’s forces have set-up intense security measures around the site and are attempting to prevent anyone from becoming aware of their presence. They do not allow anyone to take pictures of the prison or to take mobile phones with them to the site. Maliki intends to extradite the seven hostages to the religious fascists ruling Iran in the upcoming days.
 It is said that after the widespread revelations by the Resistance about the presence of these hostages in Baghdad, Maliki is now using an alternative plan and has assigned a group of interrogators to interrogate the hostages for participation “in terrorism and murder and aiding terrorism” and fabricate cases against them.
Now that there is no doubt that the seven hostages are being held by Maliki’s forces near Baghdad, and given that they are all protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention and the US has officially, in writing, accepted responsibility for the protection of each of them until their final disposition, the Iranian Resistance calls for the urgent intervention of the US President and Secretary of State to immediately free the hostages, and underscores that if these individuals are extradited, the US will bear the entire responsibility.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 20, 2013