Iranian opposition's Camp Ashraf attacked – Statement 87
NCRI – Three weeks after the criminal attack by Iraqi mercenaries against the PMOI members in Camp Ashraf, the following is a report on the state of a number of the wounded and those who have been taken hostage:
1) Saeed Habibi, has been hospitalized in Balad Hospital due to being run over by an armored Humvee vehicle. The bones in his hip and left leg have been crushed. Due to the breaking of his pelvis and its dislocation, he is unable to move and cannot pass urine as his urethra is cut off.
Currently his urine is removed by a tube from his bladder passed through his abdomen. Under such circumstances, only a highly specialized urologist can carry out the crucial operation that is not available in Balad Hospital. This is possible if US forces transfer him abroad or to their own hospitals in Germany or the US. Otherwise, they could at least allow a specialist team, for which the Iranian Resistance would cover all the costs, to go to Balad Hospital to carry out the operation with the assistance and the facilities of the hospital. In accordance with the regulations of US military hospitals, US forces are not permitting other doctors or specialists to go to the Balad Hospital.
The Iranian Resistance urges the US ambassador in Baghdad, the commander of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant international organizations to allow for this patient to be sent abroad and be handed over to his family and friends in Germany or the US or at least make an exception in Balad Hospital to accept a medical team that Ashraf residents would introduce to see to him.
Habibi is a PMOI member, who has been in opposition to the religious dictatorship in Iran for the past 27 years.
2) Massoud Ahmadi, is hospitalized in Balad for shot in the left leg and shattered shin. He must undergo operations for bone and skin graft.
3) The 36 wounded hostages were badly beaten and some were also shot at the time of their abduction. They are kept in the police station in Khalis and at the start of the fourth week of their hunger strike they are all suffering from weakness. Javad Gougerdi, Mehdi Abdolrahimi, Ali Tavalomi, Abbas Fili and Mehdi Zare’e, are seriously weak and are slowly losing their sense of hearing and sight. Ibrahim Komari and Mohammad-Reza Houshmand due to their injuries are still in great pain. Yesterday, during a court hearing by an investigating judge in Khalis, a number of the wounded who could not even stand on their feet fainted. The hostages’ strict demand is to be able to meet with their lawyers, Prof. Stephen Schneebaum, Kenneth Lewis, Mark Stephens and François Serres, Executive Director of the International Committee of Jurists in Defense of Ashraf.
The PMOI (MEK) members were taken hostage in the following manner: Four Iraqi armed men in black uniform would attack a wounded or beaten person, and then one of them would put a scarf around his neck and tie it then drag him on the ground so that he could not shout as he was being taken away. The mercenaries would then take the abducted hostage to a vehicle or a small room in the vicinity outside of Camp Ashraf, and there he would be tortured, beaten and abused.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 20, 2009
