NCRI – The medical blockade on Camp Liberty continues and the army intelligence forces (AIF) hamper transfer of patients to hospital which has placed a number of patients, especially those with cancer, in a critical condition.
Tormenting patients to death is a well-known anti-human policy implemented under the supervision of Faleh Fayyaz, Nouri al-Maliki’s National Security Advisor.
The AIF use ludicrous pretexts to obstruct the medical treatment of patients. They sometimes demand up to four times for patients to change their interpreter or nurse. Another pretext used is that patients should only go to one hospital while patients with different ailments need to refer to different hospitals and specialist physicians. Stalling patients at the camp’s gate for several hours is a daily routine which causes patients to arrive at the hospital when the working hours are over or almost over and thus the patients return without receiving treatment.
– On September 23, the AIF prevented 3 interpreters and nurses of the patients to go to hospital along the patients. The AIF also delayed the departure of the patients for two hours and kept the patients at the checkpoint of the camp. Due to this delay one of the patients was not able to complete her medical treatment
-On September 24, the AIF prevented two interpreters and nurses from accompanying the patients and stalled the patients for 1.5 hours at the camp’s gate which disrupted the medical treatment patients were to receive.
-On September 28, the AIF prevented four patients from going to the hospital and just two patients were allowed to go to the hospital after a two hour delay at camp’s gate.
-On September 29, the AIF prevented a female patient from going along on the pretext that the patients may only go to one hospital. Outrageously, they demanded for the nurse and interpreter of one patient to be changed. As a result, the patients left the camp after a 1.5 hour delay which in turn produced much disruption in the medical treatment of some of the patients.
-On September 30, the AIF barred all patients, including a cancer patient that had to undergo chemotherapy, from going to the hospital.
-On October 1, on the pretext that patients may only refer to one hospital, the AIF prevented four patients, including a cancer patient, from going to the hospital.
Considering the obligations of the United States government and the United Nations in securing the well-being and security of Camp Liberty residents, the Iranian Resistance calls for their immediate intervention to end this anti-human siege and to provide free access of residents to medical services. It further reminds that these acts are flagrant and grave violation of international covenants and clear cases of crime against humanity whose perpetrators should be held accountable. Because of the anti-human medical siege of Ashraf and Camp Liberty since 2009, twenty-one residents have lost their lives. If free access to medical services had been provided, most of them would have been alive today.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 2, 2014
