Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Egyptian lawyers urge Clinton to delist PMOI, protect Ashraf

45 Egyptian lawyers have written to the US Secretary of State demanding the delisting of the main Iranian opposition and guaranteeing protection for residents of Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
The letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refers to last month’s international conference in Brussels on the policy towards Iran.


Senior former American officials at the conference from the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations called on Washington to remove the main opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the blacklist. They also stressed the US government’s obligations towards the protection of the 3,400 PMOI members residing in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
“We urge you to comply with your country’s obligations immediately towards the PMOI in Camp Ashraf, who are protected under the Fourth Geneva Convention,” the Egyptian lawyers said in their letter.
They also referred to the European and American court rulings in favor of the PMOI, as well as a call by thousands of Europeans accompanied by a bipartisan resolution in Congress, for the removal of the PMOI from the US blacklist

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Great Annual Gathering in Support of Camp Ashraf

• International gathering with presence of tens of thousands of Iranians and others in support of Camp Ashraf residents in Villepinte, near Paris, on Saturday, June 18 • Hundreds of prominent figures and dignitaries from five continents will participate • Call for immediate protection of Ashraf residents and offer of a permanent solution for Ashraf to the UN, US and EU The crisis in Camp Ashraf, where 3400 members of Iranian opposition are besieged, is deepening and attempts to find a solution have evolved into a pressing issue on both sides of Atlantic. Therefore, in a massive international event in Paris on Saturday, June 18, to be attended by tens of thousands of Iranians, members of the US Congress, parliamentary delegations from various EU member states and Arab countries, and scores of senior officials in the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations will call for urgent measures by the UN, US and EU to protect Ashraf residents. Dozens of international dignitaries and former senior US officials will urge the US President, UN Secretary General and the EU High Representative to offer a long-term and peaceful solution to the Ashraf crisis, it was announced in a press briefing on the verge of this international event. The participants, while calling for an end to any appeasement of Iran’s clerical regime, will ask for adoption of the policy of regime change vis-à-vis the clerical regime and recognition of the Iranian Resistance.
. Date & Time: Saturday, June 18, 2011, at 3:30 pm Venue: Parc des Expositions de Paris-Nord-Villepinte, 93420 Villepinte French Committee for Secular and Democratic Iran Background information: On April 8, on the orders of Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki and at the behest of the Iranian regime, Iraqi forces massacred Ashraf residents, who are protected persons under Fourth Geneva Convention, killing 35 residents, and wounding 350. Iraqi military forces are still inside Ashraf, with one-third of the camp currently under Iraqi military occupation. The gathering on June 18 takes place eight years after the raid on the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on June 17, 2003, in which 164 Iranian dissidents who are political refugees in France were arrested. Recently, the French judges officially annulled terror charges against officials and recognized that the PMOI (People’s Mujahedin of Iran) members are not terrorists but rather are members of a legitimate resistance. A majority of members of the French National Assembly recently signed a declaration recognizing the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Activists working for the Great Gathering ?Iran..UK..Belgium..


 
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