Director General, Mr. Angelo Gnaedinger,
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 avenue de la Paix
CH 1202 Geneva
Dear Mr Gnaedinger,
We are the signatories to the statement of the seminar in “support for the families of victims of the Rajavi cult in Camp Ashraf, Iraq” which took place on the 19th of June 2010 in Paris.
Our aim is to put pressure on the leaders of the Rajavi cult (Mojahedin Khalq Organisation) to allow visits between the captives in camp Ashraf and their families, as one of the most basic human rights for any captive person.
These families, after years not being able to travel to Iraq and years of uncertainty about the fate of their children, now have had the chance to travel to post-Saddam Iraq in order to discover the situation of their loved ones held captive in Ashraf garrison. It is now over 4 months that they have been picketing outside the gates of the camp in the harsh conditions of the desert, without much in the way of facilities, hoping to visit their loved ones.
Although the right to have visitors is one of the accepted rights for any prisoner, it is unfortunate that the leaders of the Rajavi cult block any attempt at reunion and meeting between these captives and their old and tired mothers and fathers. They have announced, in their own cult jargon language, that any contact with family members is considered as a sin.
It is with regret that we must announce that the situation is so bad that after four and a half months of picketing not only has the aim of meeting their loved ones not been achieved, but the leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq have constantly harassed these parents using abusive and threatening language against them. On some occasions, physical attacks on the families have also been reported.
Dear Sir,
Documents and evidence of the violent history of abuse of human rights by the cult of Rajavi (Mojahedin Khalq) clearly shows that during the past two decades, the leaders of the cult have forbidden any kind of affection or love between family members and have considered it as a sin and a punishable crime. The cult members are expected to only show affection and love to the leader solely.
Rajavi, using the opportunity provided by the fallen dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, has used the past two decades to create an atmosphere inside camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) in which any marriage, friendship, writing letters, exchanging photos, using telephone, meeting and chatting or any relation between parents and children or between siblings or other relatives has been forbidden and even thinking about it would have resulted in severe, violent punishment and suppression.
We call on all international bodies as well as all relevant governments. We ask specifically from your good self to intervene in a purely humanitarian role and convince the leaders of Mojahedin Khalq to allow free visits between the families and their children outside the walls of camp Ashraf in the presence of representatives of the ICRC and put an end to this hardship and misery.
Signatories:
1.Abas Sadeghi/Germany
2.Rana Samadzadeh Aghdam/Sweden
3. Maryam Ahmadi/Sweden
4. Hossein Samadzadeh Aghdam/Sweden
5. Ariya Abdollahi/Norway
6. Javad Abolhosseini/Netherlands
7. Alireza Bashiri/Norway
8.Batool Maleki/Switzerland
9.Massoud Jabani/ Netherlands
10.Mohammad Hossein Sobhani/Germany
11. Hadi Shams Haeri/Netherlands
12. Noshin Bashiri/Norway
13. Tovartan Babakhani/Netherlands
14. Tamin Abdollahi/Norway
15. Rabeae Shahrokhi/Sweden
16. Hashem Payro/Norway
17.Hamid Yazdanfar/Norway
18Jafar Ahmadi/Norway
19.Maryam Taheriyan Pajoh/Sweden
20.Mehdi Ahmadi/Sweden
21.Omid Ahmadi/ Sweden
22.Massoud Khodabandeh/England
23. Ayob Kord Rostami/Canada
24.Farshid Ahmadi/Sweden
25. Farid Armideh ,The son of Aliakbar Armideh/Sweden
26. Saeed Armideh ,The son of Aliakbar Armideh/Sweden
27.Mitra Yosefi/Sweden
28. Naser Rezvani/Sweden
29. Farshid Nazari/Norway
30. Farzad Farzinfar/SWeden
31. Nima Parniya/Norway
32. Anne Singleton/England
33. Saeed Khodabakhsh/Canada
34. Parvin Haji/Canada
35. Fereshteh Hosseini/Denmark
36. Parya Dabiryan/Greece
37. Hassan Faraji/Sweden
38. Omid Ariyapoor/ Norway
39. Faramarz Afshari/Greece
40. Elham Norouzi/Canada
41. Soheyla Norouzi/Canada
42. Babak A/France
43. Alireza Nasrollahi/France
44. Mostafa Mohammadi/Canada
45. Shan Kord Rostami/Canada
46. Marlen Kord Rostami/Canada
47. Bahareh Nikbakht/France
48. Hassan Piransar / France
49. Hamed Sarrafpour/France
50.Alireza Nabavi/Sweden
51. Anika Nabavi/Sweden
52.Sara Nabavi/sweden
53.Rohi Aslani/Sweden
54.Zahra Makari/Sweden
55. Kenar Jasem Ali/Netherlands
56. Horiyeh Mohammadi/Canada
57.Shirin Aghvami/Sweden
58. Zari Aghvami/Sweden
59. Mehri Nasiri/Sweden
60. Gholam Shirali/Norway
61. Habib Khorami/Netherlands
62. Marziyeh Gonjeshki/ Netherlands
63. Mahbobeh. Hamzeh /Canada
64.Narmin Jasem Ali/Netherlands
65. Zahra MOhammadi/Netherlands
66. Mohammad mohammadi/Canada
67. Morteza Mohammadi/Canada
68.Hamid Tavana /Netherlands
69. Mohammad harati/Netherlands
70. Tol Malavi
71. krigoriyan
72. Mohammad ellami
73. Khalil Taghavi/Netherlands
74. Mina Taghavi/Netherlands
75. Karim Haghi / Netherlands)
76. Khaled Taghavi/Netherlands
77. Zaghik Babakhani/Netherlands
78. Hamid Balfan/Netherlands
79. Maryam Jahanfard/Netherlands
80. Mohammad Karami/France
81. Javad Firozmand/France
83.Mehdi Sojodi/Germany
83. Mehrdad Sagharchi/scandinavia
84. Ali Jahani/ Germany
85. Majid Rohi/Denmark
86. Parvin Jafari/Denmark
87.Roya Haratipour/Norway
88.Bashir Hamdardzadeh/Sweden
89. Javid Hosseini/Greece
90. Mohammad Satari/NOrway
91. Jalil Hasimi/DEnmark
92. zayd Rahmanpour/Norway
93. Ashraf mohammadi/Norway
94. Hamid Balfan/Netherlands
95. Noor Dara/Netherlands
96. Soheyla Behboodi/Germany
97. Nasrin Behboodi/Netherlands
98. Kazem Hosseini/Netherlands
99. Ali Ghashghavi/ Germany
100. Amir Movasaghi/Germany
101. Edvard Tormado/Germany
102. Armineh Tormado/Germany
103. Behzad Alishahi/Netherlands
104. Nahid Amiri/Netherlands
105. Alireza Mirasgari/Germany
106. Mohsen Abaslo/Austria
107. Alireza Naghashzadeh/Germany
108. Elham Kakavand/Netherlands
109. Ali Akbar Rastgo/Germany
110. Majed Dara/Netherlands
111. Noryeh Dara/Netherlands
112. Nona Abdollahi/Netherlands
113. Ali Taghavi /Netherlands
114. Mehdi Fadayee/Germany
115. Khaled Taghavi/Netherlands
116. Yorik Ebrahimiyan /Germany
117. Farideh Barati/Netherlands
118. Mahbobeh Barati/Netherlands
119. Arash Moghadam/Netherlands
120. Batool Soltani
121. Armin Seraj/Netherlands
122. Kardo Dara/Netherlands
123. A Abkhaziyan/Germany)
124. Narineh Artesh/Germany
125. Ali Zirak/Netherlands
126. Sara SAdeghi/Germany
127. Bahadoor Khorami/Netherlands
128. Jafar Gonjeshki/Denmark
129. Jamshid Charlang/Germany
130. Ali Sheykhi/Netherlands
131. Hesam Sheykhi/Netherlands
132. Reza Sadeghi/Belgium
133. Eman Vaseti/Netherlands
134. Khalil Vaseti/Netherlands
135. Faramarz Pashayee / Canada
136. Mohammad Nabi Soleyman Nejat/Canada
137. Khoshnam Hesami/Canada
138. Hassan Saberi/Canada
139. Mehrzad Zardoshtiyan /Netherlands
140. Ghodrat Hamidi/Canada
141. Hasheh Mirza/Netherlands
142. Ershak Naghdali/Netherlands
143. Ebrahim Manaf/Netherlands
144. Sava Manaf/Netherlands
145. Amir Atefeh/Netherlands
146. Sanaz Dara/Netherlands
147. Saeed Soltanpour/Canada
148. Mahnaz Alavi/Netherlands
149. Christin Karkhaziyan/Germany
150. Habib Asadollahi/Germany
151. Millad Ariyayee/Germany
152. Ali GHashghavi/Germany
153. Shadi Doosti/Netherlands
154. Hassan Haghi/Netherlands
155. Mostafa Rahmani/Germany
156. Amir Movasaghi/Germany
157. Saeedeh Jabani/Netherlands
158. Maryam Vaseti/Netherlands
159. Hossein Ghanbari/Finland
160. Mansour Nazari/France
161. Hossein Naghdi/Germany
162. Mohammad Razzaghi/France
163. Nader Naderi/France
164.Yahya Haghjo/Sweden
165. Faramarz Niksefat/Denmark
166. Sepideh Aref/France
167. Dr. Farzad Rahnama/Carolina, USA
168. Mohammad Allavi/France
169. Shiva Mostafavi/France
170. Mehran Taghiabadi/France
171. Jamshid Peyvasteh/Netherlands
172. Mehrdad seyyedian/ Norway
173. Eshrat Fallah / Norway
174. Amir Taherloo / Sweden
175 . Shiwa Mostafavi / France
176. shokoufe Bayat /Sweden
177. Fateme Soleymani / Norway
178. Ali Mirzayi / Norway
179. Ashraf Amrolahi / Sweden
180. Ahmad Nooraei / Germany
181. Zohre Shams / gemany
182. Heydar Ghadiri /