Ashraf attacked – Statement 18
NCRI – A number of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), who were severely wounded in an attack by Iraqi police on Tuesday and whose situation is deteriorating, are in need of urgent medical attention by eye surgeons, neurosurgeons, orthopaedic surgeons and ophthalmologists. At the time of reporting on Tuesday night at 23:00 local time, doctors are not accessible and the Diyala province hospital has refused to send doctors in view of the unsafe situation on the roads. American forces have the capability to use helicopters to transfer the wounded to the American forces’ hospital in Balad, 20 km from Ashraf, in a matter of minutes. Some of the severely wounded, whom Ashraf residents are calling on American forces to transfer to the Balad hospital, include:
• Farzaneh Kamani, injury: cerebral traumatism
• Siavash Nezamolmolki, injury: cerebral traumatism
• Amir Kheiri, injury: cerebral traumatism
• Payman Kord-Amiri, injury: cerebral traumatism
• Farah Sheybani, injury: cerebral traumatism
• Zahra Ghasemi, injury: bleeding due to blow to the eye
• Bagher Hamidi, injury: blow to the eye and burns from boiling water
• Esmaeel Gorji, injury: blow to the eye and burns from boiling water
• Ali-Asghar Amouzgar, injury: blow to the eye and burns from boiling water
• Mansour Haddad, injury: hit by bullets in the abdomen and chest
• Ghasem Bahrami, injury: hit bullet in the abdomen
• Asghar Yaghoub, injury: hit by bullet in the abdomen as well as a broken hand
• Sirous Morsali, injury: hit by bullets, and crushed thigh
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 28, 2009
