Honourable António Guterres UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva
As your Excellency is aware, Camp Liberty in Baghdad, the temporary camp for nearly three thousand members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) was subjected Thursday night 26 
December 2013 to a terrorist attack by rockets and mortars. According to the PMOI this attack caused the death of 4 of the camp residents and the wounding of 71 others, many of whom are in a critical condition.
The PMOI published the names and photographs of those killed, but not the names of the wounded. We, the undersigned, as a group of Iranian critics of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), as well as former members of the organization, express our support for the request of the families of the residents of Camp Liberty to speed up the transfer of the residents from Iraq to third countries.
So, we urge your honour, as UN High Commissioner for Refugees and international authority who is responsible for solving this issue, as well as the competent international bodies, especially the International Committee of the Red Cross and its office in Iraq, to oblige the leadership of the PMOI to announce the names of the wounded residents from this incident by any appropriate means, such as informing the families or by allowing the wounded to directly contact or meet their families.
We consider the request of the families to conform to the rights and requirements of international humanitarian laws and basic principles of human rights, including the right of families to know the fate of their relatives in such events because of their family relation, of course, and by virtue of emotions and natural humanity and they are worried about the health and status of their relatives residing in the refugee camp.
We also announce our support for the request of a group of families of the residents of Camp Liberty to speed up the transfer of the residents from Iraq, where there are daily killings of many innocent people in terrorist incidents or in bloody sectarian clashes, to the third countries, while nearly a third of them have documents of residency or asylum in European countries or North America.
We join these families to call on international bodies, especially the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to put their utmost efforts into urging the member states towards resettling the residents in third countries as soon as possible.
We would like to express our deep appreciation and gratitude in advance for your efforts in this regard, and for informing the families about the fate and status of their relatives in Camp Liberty.
A group of Iranian critics of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and former members of the Organization
16 January 2014
Signatories:
1.Mohammad Karami
2. Hassan Piransar
3. Batul Soltani
4. Saba Shekar Beyghi
5. Mohsen Mahdavi
6. M. Barazandeh
7. Hamid Sistani
8. Mahmoud Sepahi
9. Mehrdad Sagharchi
10. Ghorbanali Hossein nejad
11. Hassan Azizi
12. Seyed Amir movasaghi
13. Alireza Mirasghari
14. Edward Termado
15. Behzad Alishahi
16. Toraj Amiri
17. Massoud Khodabandeh
18. Shirzad Jalili
19. Majid Rohi
20. Niaz Salimi
21. Shahin Rabiee
22. Anne Singleton
23. Bahiee Jeylani
24. Nasrin Ebrahimi
25. Zahra Al Sadat Mirbagheri
26. Homeyra Mohammad Nejad
27. Mahtab Alipour
28. Zahra Moini
29. Mona Hossein Nejad
30. B- Amiri
31. Visha Madej
32. Ahmad Mohammadi
33. Arash Sameti pour
34. Ali Khatami
35. Saeed Soltanpour
36. Ali Ghashghavi
37. Ali Jahani
38. Hamid Dehdar
39. Ehsan Bidi
40. Mehdi Khoshhal
41. Hassan Khalag
42. Jafar Ebrahimi
43. Hamid Yosefi
44. Vahid Saidi
45. Adel Azami
46. Ali akbar Rastgo
47. Mitra Yousefi
48. Massoud Jabani
49. Mohammadreza Najarian kermani
50 . Homayon Kahzadi
51 . Mirbagher Sedaghi
52 .Ghafour Fatahyian
53 – Reza Fani Yazdi
Copies to:
– Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon – New York
– Mrs Jane Holl Lute UNSG adviser for relocation of Camp Liberty residents to third countries
– UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations, Ms Nawi Pillay – Geneva
– Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Iraq, Mr Nikola Mladenov
– Chairman of the human rights monitoring in the UNAMI in Iraq, Mr Ashouri
– Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations in Iraq
– Ashraf-Liberty Project Office in the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations in Camp Liberty – Mr Ahmed Al-Tamimi
– The International Committee of the Red Cross
– Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Baghdad
– Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq
– The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights
– Amnesty International
– Human Rights Watch
Mohammad Karami blog, Paris
