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Suspicious Death of an Iranian Asylum Seeker in Australia

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Call for urgent international action to solve the crisis of Iranian asylum seekers in Australia

On Monday, August 8, an Iranian asylum seeker named Hassan Shamshiripour was found dead at the Manus refugee camp. According to Australian media, residents of the camp say that they had seen many injuries on different parts of the body of this asylum seeker.

Australia has sent these asylum seekers, who have fled from the hell of the mullahs’ repression and poverty and corruption to Papua New Guinea Islands and have subjected them to inhumane conditions, in violation of recognized asylum standards.

The Iranian Resistance extends its condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Shamshiripour and sympathies to the Iranian asylum seekers in the Manus camp. It stresses that the Australian Government is responsible for the security of Iranian asylum seekers and refugees. It calls on the international community, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the European Union and its Member States, to condemn Australia’s mistreatment of Iranian asylum seekers and their expulsion from the country, a flagrant breach of international conventions and treaties. It urges them to grant these asylum seekers the right to asylum, not allowing them to face poverty, hunger and the risk of death outside the rule of the clerical regime.

The Iranian Resistance also calls on the Australia parliament, political parties and refugee rights organizations to take immediate action to resolve this humanitarian crisis and guarantee the rights of asylum seekers, and urges the Iranian people living in Australia to rise up to help their compatriots.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 9, 2017