Iran Focus

London, 1 November – Mr. Christian Zimmermann, the Director of Human Rights and Minority affairs in Berlin commemorated those killed at Camp Liberty last year and raised important concerns in building relations with governments that don’t respect human rights, such as Iran.

On October 29 last year, Camp Liberty was struck by rockets, killing more than 20 people and injuring dozens. The Iraqi Shi’a militia, the al-Mukhtar Army, claimed responsibility for the callous act, as reported by Amnesty International. At the time, Camp Liberty was situated in the north-east of Baghdad and housed almost 2,250 Iranian exiles. Most of them were supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main opposition force to the Iranian regime, closely linked to The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Iran Focus

London, 1 November – On October 29 the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) published a statement by the Papal Legate and the Secretary of the Conferences in the Marche region of Italy. The statement speaks to the necessity of prosecuting the perpetrators of the Massacre in Iran in 1988.

Iran Focus

London, 31 October – Two political prisoners under the Iranian Regime have written a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Asemeh Jahangir, about their horrific imprisonment in Gohardasht prison in Karaj.

Hassan Sadeghi explains that he is on the verge of blindness as a result of torture in the notorious Evin Prison in the 1980s and denied him medical treatment for months at a time.

Iran Focus

London, 29 October – In an article for Forbes, Amir Basiri, a Iranian human rights activist, writes about the new financial sanctions that the Obama administration has added to supplement the nuclear deal that came into effect early this year. These new sanctions allow for non-U.S. persons to deal with Iranian entities that are minority owned or controlled by sanctioned individuals or bodies.