Monday October 5, 2009, 3:18 pm
The rights of Ashraf residents call upon the world and human rights organizations and the United Alenthdh help Ashraf residents on hunger strike since 83 days because of the abduction too wearing Iraqi police uniforms for 36 km Ahsa Ashraf and four days before transfer to an unknown destination orders from the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and Ntal all human rights organizations order the immediate issuance of your orders release of 36 and returned to Camp Ashraf, in order to save them from certain death. That the hostages of the 36 members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran are on strike strike full of food and drink for 52 hours where they were forcibly relocated and beatings and insults from the prison of pure to Baghdad in the afternoon on the first Thursday of October in the sixty-sixth day of hunger strike We do not have any information on the location of their detention. The investigating judge has issued a sincere for the third time a decision to release them outright to the Iraqi public prosecutor issued orders on September 30 for all police stations be released. Thirty-six of these living and a serious health situation they face death at any moment they were written in a letter to the investigating judge on 23 September and reserves the International Committee for the defense of legal experts oversaw a copy, a week after the issuance of the second resolution to be released on September 16 On the seventh day session of the hunger strike, which said: «no justification for keeping us non-legal in prison and was supposed to allow us to return to the Ashraf Alaqraran after the investigating judge in Khalis, to release us .. But they were kept in prison and forced under pressure from the Prime Minister in the days of Eid Al Fitr, contrary to all traditions and norms of humanitarian and Islamic and Arab ... We are the mujahideen of the 36 held hostage in a prison Please be sincere and the Iraqi parliament and all honest Iraqis, Arabs and all people of conscience around the world, note that the Iraqi government is responsible for their deaths That the International Committee of Experts on the law in defense of Ashraf demand that President Obama to take urgent action in this regard. All of these 36 individuals are protected by U.S. forces occurred in 2004 with both the private agreement to protect them until the final resolution of their case about the receipt of their weapons I ask no choice all the world can help those poor understanding of the refugees and are subject to the Atvaver Geneva, which provides protection

Monday October 5, 2009, 3:20 pm
As modern hummans we must find way to help those sad attacked pepole.. Where is Humman right where is Amenistel ??

Monday October 5, 2009, 3:22 pm
This should be getting more attention from the U.S. media!

Monday October 5, 2009, 3:24 pm

I wrote here and here about the attack by Iraqi forces -- at the behest of the Iranian regime -- upon the Iranian opposition group, the PMOI, at its headquarters in Ashraf, as a result of which 36 of its members were taken prisoner. In recent days, the situation has got far worse. According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, yesterday afternoon the 36 prisoners -- who are on hunger-strike -- were beaten up and tortured for more than two hours before being bundled into vans and transferred from Khalis city prison to Baghdad. The NCRI say this took place on the orders of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, despite three Iraqi court rulings ordering the prisoners’ release.

Members of the Iraqi parliament have accordingly expressed their deep concern at this ‘arbitrary action, a violation of law, a clear violation of individual rights of citizens...’ In Britain, a group of 47 cross-party MPs and peers led by Lord Corbett wrote to Maliki three days ago demanding that Iraq release the prisoners. They protested:

The attack on the civilian population in Camp Ashraf by Iraq’s armed forces, in which these 36 were arbitrarily detained, was illegal. It has greatly tarnished Iraq’s image in the eyes of the international community... In the quest for establishing democracy and freedom in Iraq, our country did not put its soldiers’ lives on the line and use taxpayers’ money so that the current Iraqi government would end up violating human rights and international laws and standards.

The PMOI is not uncontroversial. There are other members of the Iranian resistance who view it with some suspicion. Nevertheless, what is happening should deeply concern the west for these reasons.

•The PMOI are a significant part of the Iranian resistance to the terrorist regime in Tehran.
•What has happened to its members is a gross abuse of human rights and the rule of law by an Iraqi administration which was put in place by the west.
•America has a duty under the Geneva Conventions to honour its obligation to protect the PMOI in Iraq, an obligation which it is ignoring.
•These events demonstrate the extent to which Prime Minister Maliki is under the thumb of the Iranian regime.
Since Iran poses the principal terrorist threat to the region, the west and the world, and since the west toppled Saddam Hussein to make the world safer from such terrorism, the implications of the Iraqi forces' attack on Ashraf and subsequent developments are alarming in the extreme.

Monday October 5, 2009, 3:26 pm
Yes Estar this should be take more action from American media...

Monday October 5, 2009, 3:53 pm
I saw a report on our news television only once and had heard no more about it. I'm so disgusted with the news lately over here, spend hours on stupid stuff and substance news we get less and less of. No wonder so many can not make an informed decision.
Human life is precious as is all life...let us pray for all.

Monday October 5, 2009, 3:55 pm
Thank goodness they havent taken away our internet....

Big gorilly Hugs

Monday October 5, 2009, 5:50 pm
Thank you so much for all of your updates Uhoud my friend. I appreciate knowing what's going on in all of our countries all over the world.

Everyone is equal on this planet and in the Universe!

Sending blessings ~
FreeSpirit Running

Monday October 5, 2009, 5:52 pm
Uhoud, please let me know if there is anything else that I can do sweetie, thank you.

In peace,
FreeSpirit

Monday October 5, 2009, 10:26 pm
Good question Uhoud..has any one written Amenisty International? I will also spread ur story Uhoud This shall be told Hon. Blessings

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 7:45 am
Dandelion I share your feelings that our news media gives us incomplete coverage of important events. I have heard stories of significance mentioned just once also. It is so tiring to have the news media be so callous or just plain programmed to be little more than an entertainment. We should be glad that we are both members of Care 2 where we can obtain more complete news than is offered to us instead of the sad excuse for news in the common media venues.

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 7:55 am
Thank you for bringing this to light, Uhoud. Truly sad. Petitions? Who to write to? Call? Anyone?

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 8:25 am
Marion write to prisident Obama to UN human right to Aminsteal we must help those pepole they are weak with out power stranger sick need human help ... even they are Iranian but they are agaionst Iranian eviel most of them young femails with out power .. I wish some body can write petition .. America is the leader of our world thus why I belive America can do so much ..

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 10:42 am
If this has and is truly occuring, how and why has the international media missed it or humane groups haven't taken note. It seems like the Obama administration would be all over this. Anyway, I bet now it'll be soon looked into and taken for account thanks to this and hopefully other outlets of exposure. What's right should be praised. What wrong should be corrected.

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 7:16 pm
Here is the link for a petition..Pleasesign it..It will appear you are writing backwards. but don't worry it will work. The first line is for your first and last name, the next line is for your street add. the 3rd line for your city and country, next line for your e.mail last box for comments

http://www.nosratashraf.com/AddToPetition.aspx

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 11:09 pm
This is atrocious... how can anyone expect to get away with this.. may God return this sin upon their own heads... as He sees all things.. I am horrified at the level of abuse that is rising in the world, the amount of hatred tooooooooooooo.

Wednesday October 7, 2009, 3:16 am
Anita you are great I love you..

Wednesday October 7, 2009, 3:17 am
Waoooo Obama in Iraq today may he solve that sad problem of Ashraf .. wish that for those sad pepole.

Wednesday October 7, 2009, 12:06 pm
Thank you for the petition, Anita! Here it is translated into English from Arabic:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nosratashraf.com%2FAddToPetition.aspx

Wednesday October 7, 2009, 2:41 pm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=People's_Mojahedin_Organisation_of_Iran

I'm not taking sides here but check out the link above. The People's Mojahedin of Iran aren't exactly peaceful, innocent victims according to some of their past actions. Basically, I'm saying two wrongs don't make a right. And I agree completely that the mainstream news should be covering this story from all angles but you know David Letterman's affairs are paramount to the peace & security of the world.

Wednesday October 7, 2009, 9:57 pm
Thank you Uhoud.

Don't expect much from human rights orgs - they spend their time focused on Israel and everybody else goes ignored. Intelligent Iranians are on their own these days, sad to say.

Thursday October 8, 2009, 5:28 am
Wild cat is trying to seize the opportunity to attack who ever tells the truth about Israel while she knows very well the connection between Almaliki regime and Israel and the preent Iranian government.All parties are playing games and you are the victims.What a shame !!!!

Thursday October 8, 2009, 5:35 am
The American Media is under the Zionists control.The American corporations are the ones who benefit from any situation around the world.The G W Bush administration was behind all this.These people were living in peace under Saddam Hussein regime until the American unjustified invasion.

Thursday October 8, 2009, 10:18 am
Exactly Abdessalam. The Zionists control much of the media, education, government, banking, military, entertainment and society as a whole. This is why they've been run out of country after country throughout history. This is not to blame Zionists alone for these characteristics. It is just that they have dominated and played this game so well to the detriment of others.

Control, power and usury are their weapons to destroy nations and take over resources.

Thursday October 8, 2009, 10:22 am
Absolutely atrocious that a country treats it citizens in such a brutal manner.. they should be looking to gaining the people's trust and fulfilling their dreams instead they are doing just the opposite, they are not going to win any voters here... it will just further antagonise the situation.. there should be dialogue around the table, not with a gun pointed in your back

Thursday October 8, 2009, 4:56 pm
I'm afraid for the brave people of Iran who protest their rigged election. I wish they could take their country back and overthrow those "supreme" leaders.

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:18 pm
They always blame everything on Israel. Abdessalam blames Israel and even claims that the people all lived peacefully before George W. Bush invaded Iraq. I think that Bush did the wrong thing when he invaded Iraq at that time because it was not necessary since Saddam finally got scared and said that we could send anyone we want and they can go anywhere to look for WMDS but I certainly don't think that all the people in Iraq were living peacefully before this happened.
Marion states the "Zionists " (which I guess she means the Jews) have control of the media, education, government, banking,military, entertainment and society as a whole and that is why they have been run out of country after country throughout history. That is interesting .First of all if they controlled all of those things how could they be run out of country after country? Secondly, in many Muslim countries (and there are a lot of them) if you are not a Muslim you don't have the same rights as the people who are Muslims. In addition in many of those countries the Muslim religion determines what kind of laws, entertainment etc. there are. In the past Catholic countries also were very intolerant of non-Catholics. There is only one country that is Jewish and it is a small country. In addition since Muslim countries control much of the oil in the world, they also have a lot of money and power and they have used that power to get other countries to do what they wanted them to do such as how they vote in the United Nations. Perhaps Jews were chased out of country after country because of intolerance and since they were in the minority, it was easy.

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:45 pm
Esther,
When I said that people in Iraq were living in peace I was telling the truth as all the world knows.Who brought violence to Iraq? Were there any of Alqaeda elements in Iraq?Didn't the GW Bush administration divid the Iraqi people. When I said that the American media is controled by Zionism I didn't mean Jews.There is a different between them.Zionists are Jews but not all jews are Zionists.On the contrary, there are a lot of Jews who wisely oppose Zionism and oppose the creation of a Jewish state.I was not blaming Israel. I was just reffering to links between the present Iraqi government and Israel.Jews lived and are still living in Arab countries without any problem.They were doctors,lawyers and business men but they chosed to leave freely to the promised land .A move that many of them regreted later.

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:55 pm
First of all I want to let you all know that I received the following email on Oct. 7 from Akbar Azizi -.

Our deepest gratitute and congratulations!



The 36 hostages returned triumphantly

to Camp Ashraf today

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of Iranian Resistance,

thanked all involved, including human rights organizations

across the globe for their relentless efforts

Dear Friend,

Congratulations!

Please accept our deepest gratitude for all your efforts in gaining the release of the 36 Ashraf abductees. Today, they triumphantly returned home after 72 days of hunger strike and their seventh day of dry hunger strike.

This was a worldwide campaign by humanitarians all across the globe to affect political decision-making in many capitals. This effort was victorious because of people like yourself who cared about humanitarian values above all else. His or her efforts knew no border or nationality.

We have won a great battle but the war remains to be won. The main battle will be won once the protection for camp Ashraf is guaranteed by international organizations such as UN. We shall continue to depend on you in this struggle for human rights.

Mrs. Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, expressed her special gratitude to Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams; Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, Palestine’s Chief Justice; Mrs. Danielle Mitterrand; Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament; Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Prime Minister of Algeria; Lord Robin Corbett; Dr. Saleh Mutlak, leader of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front; and the relentless efforts of the International Committee of in Search of Justice, International Committee of Jurists, Arabic-Islamic Committee in Defense of Ashraf, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and parliamentary committees in various countries of the world.

We sincerely thank you again and feel indebted to you for all you have done for the sake of humanitarian values.

For a complete account please go to:

http://www.mojahedin.org/pagesEn/detailsNews.aspx?newsid=6101 or refer to http://www.ncr-iran.org/ or http://www.mojahedin.org/ websites.

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:04 pm
Abdessalam, I appreciate your reply.However I recall reading that there were problems between the Shiites and the Sunnis in Iraq before George W. Bush invaded Iraq.
Also I don't know if the Jews have the same rights as the Muslims do in Egypt. I know that they don't in many Muslim countries and that is one of the reasons why they wanted their own small country. I wish that all people all over the world - Muslims, Christians, Jews etc. can get along with each other. I think that whether you call Him God or Allah, that is what He would want.

Friday October 9, 2009, 4:05 pm
For me no different betwen pepole I look to your heart not to your religion I dont like mix political with religion I belive in God all we have one god same god even name different all relgions have same belives I would like to inform you that ?I have near dear friend she is fro TelAviv .. so what is that mistake .. accourding to how much the person respect him self I respect him ... In Iraq before there is no different betwen religions we have muslims christian sabian ahew and others .. all we live together..

Saturday October 10, 2009, 2:52 am
Uhoud, I am glad to read your comment, but I did hear that there were problems between the Shiites and Sunnis when Iraq was ruled by Saddam. I do wish that Muslims of all kinds, Christians of all kinds and Jews of all kinds can tolerate and get along with each other all over the world.