{"id":17208,"date":"2014-09-18T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/ashraf-liberty\/17208-iraq-21st-iranian-pmoi-member-passes-away-due-to-medical-siege-on-camp-liberty"},"modified":"2023-01-14T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T21:47:41","slug":"iraq-21st-iranian-pmoi-member-passes-away-due-to-medical-siege-on-camp-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-ashraf-liberty\/iraq-21st-iranian-pmoi-member-passes-away-due-to-medical-siege-on-camp-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: 21st Iranian PMOI member passes away due to medical siege on Camp Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCRI- At 1:20 a.m, on 18 September 2014, Taghi Abbasian, a resident of Camp Liberty<\/a> and member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOMEK<\/span><\/a>I\/<\/a>) who was suffering from heart ailment and Motor Neurone Disease lost his life at the camp\u2019s Iraqi clinic as a result of the anti-human medical siege on the camp and the lack of access to medical care.<\/p>\n

He had been in ranks of PMOI for three decades in their struggle to overthrow the religious dictatorship ruling in Iran and to establish democracy and human rights.<\/p>\n

As such, since 2009 that the United States transferred protection of Camp Ashraf <\/a>to the Iraqi forces, twenty-one PMOI members in Ashraf and Liberty have passed away due to the medical blockade. A number of other patients who suffer from extremely serious diseases are in perilous situation due this criminal siege.<\/p>\n

Just like other residents of Camp Liberty, Mr. Taghi Abbasian who was a protected person both according to the refugee law and according to the Fourth Geneva Convention faced innumerable obstacles in his medical treatment. On 8 April 2014, he wrote to the UNAMI Human Rights Office:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy name is Taghi Abbasian suffering heart ache and numbness of body; I had a heart attack while ago. I am partially paralyzed and my health situation is deteriorating. After one month doctor in camps \u2019[sic] clinic prescribed me angiography and brain MRI. On 7th April 2014, I went to Baghdad for a surgery and MRI. When we want to leave the camp the Army Intelligence Forces (AIF) did not allow one ambulance leaves the camp and all patients had to sit in one ambulance tight together. It was really a torture from the beginning. In hospital in Baghdad, AIF agent did not even let me explain my problems to doctor completely.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctor told him that: \u2018from medical point of view this patient must be hospitalized and take angiography and some other medical tests.\u2019 However, the AIF agent prevented me to be hospitalized\u2026 Given my health situation that is unstable, I will hold Major Ahmed Khozeir and his personnel responsible if anything happens to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In numerous other letters to UNAMI, including on January 20 in 2011, and on May 8, June 2 and 21, and July 5 and 20 this year, he complained about the hampering by Maliki\u2019s Government in his medical treatment, but they all fell on deaf ears. In his letter of July 5, 2014 to the head of UNAMI Human Rights, he explained the stonewalling by the Iraqi agents in his transfer to the hospital and wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am seriously complaining this inhumane conduct by the Iraqi government elements, and I am asking you to not remain silent any further and not allow them to play with our lives. I am warning that I am in dangerous and irreversible conditions and must go through my medical treatment process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The criminal medical blockade took a turn for the worse since the residents were transferred to Camp Liberty. While the Iraqi clinic in the camp is deprived of rudimentary equipment for emergency cases, the Maliki forces are preventing the transfer of the medical equipment that the residents have purchased at their own expense in Ashraf.<\/p>\n

The Iranian Resistance underscores the repeated and written commitments of the U.S. government and the United Nations concerning the safety and security of Camp Liberty residents and calls on them to act immediately to end this criminal siege and to provide residents unrestricted access to medical services in Iraq. The Iranian Resistance reminds that these measures are blatant and serious violations of the international treaties and flagrant examples of crime against humanity whose perpetrators should be held accountable.<\/p>\n

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 18, 2014<\/p>\n

Additional Information:<\/p>\n

An international conference was held in Paris on September 1, 2014, marking the first anniversary of the Camp Ashraf massacre.\u00a0 The conference also addressed the crisis in the Middle East, threats and solution.\u00a0 President-elect Maryam Rajavi<\/a> was in attendance, along with: General Hugh Shelton; Julie Ward, British Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region for the Labour Party; Adrianus Melkert, Dutch politician of the Labour Party; and Jude Kirton-Darling, Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n