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NCRI – Leading Iraqi Kurdish activists have demanded that the United Nations return Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty to Ashraf, and recognize them as refugees.<\/p>\nNCRI – Leading Iraqi Kurdish activists have demanded that the United Nations return Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty to Ashraf, and recognize them as refugees.<\/p>\n
Organisations of social and political personalities from the Kurdish region of Iraq launched their campaign in support on Liberty residents on Sunday, April 1.<\/p>\n
They said in a signed statement published in the Shafaq news: “It is more than a year that Ashraf residents have been housed in Camp Liberty under the pretext of their transfer to third countries, based on promises given by the UN and relevant sides.<\/p>\n
“Liberty was supposed to be a secure place for these refugees that met humanitarian and international standards.<\/p>\n
“Such commitments and guarantees forced Ashraf residents to relocate from where they were housed for 27 years in Diyala Province to a prison so-called Liberty. However, after a year and the disclosure of irrecusable documents, it is clear that these refugees have been deceived. Liberty was neither a temporary nor a secure location.”<\/p>\n
The statement adds: “The new camp has not and does not meet humanitarian and international standards. Lawyers are also deprived of seeing their clients.<\/p>\n
“The attack on February 9, 2013, on Camp Liberty that resulted in the death of eight and injury of about a 100 of these refugees showed that Liberty has turned into a killing field for them.”<\/p>\n
“Threats for another attack to this camp from terrorist forces affiliated to the Iranian regime continue, and these refugees could become victims another massacre.”<\/p>\n
The signatories stressed their two key demands to the UN – firstly, return Liberty residents Ashraf from where they can be relocated to third countries, and secondly, reaffirmation of their refugee status by the UNHCR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NCRI – Leading Iraqi Kurdish activists have demanded that the United Nations return Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty to Ashraf, and recognize them as refugees. Organisations of social and political personalities from the Kurdish region of Iraq launched their campaign in support on Liberty residents on Sunday, April 1. They said in a signed statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-13245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ashraf-liberty","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"\n