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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":"
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