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A Demonstrator lights candles to commemorate Iranians killed during the July 28 raid on Camp Ashraf.

Ottawa Hunger Strikers Protest Camp Ashraf Attack

Demonstrators appeal to U.S. Embassy to protect camp residentsBY Pam McLennan and Joan DelaneySource: Epoch TimesOTTAWA—To protest the savage attack by Iraqi forces on...
In a surprise move on the morning of May 28, 2009, the Iraqi police force attacked Ashraf at its entrance. They imposed a siege and for two months they exerted mounting pressures, threats and restrictions on Ashraf. Finally on July 28, 2009, they launched a brutal attack on Ashraf residents killing them savagely together with other suppressive forces at the behest of Khamenei who is engulfed in a nationwide uprising in Iran

Journalists detained for trying to cover army operations in Camp Ashraf

Source: UNHCR.orgAugust 5, 2009 - Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the government's refusal to let journalists cover its operations in a camp...

Iraq plays deadly game to control Camp Ashraf, French TV reports

NCRI - The French TV station, Channel 3, on Friday broadcast a report about the attack of Iraqi forces against Camp Ashraf, describing it...
A screen grab taken from a video showing Iraqi armoured vehicles drive into crowds inside Camp Ashraf, zig-zagging from side to side and running several people down on July 28, 2009.

100 Iraqi figures demand U.S. intervention for Camp Ashraf

NCRI - 100 Iraqi figures, including tribal leaders, university professors, and political party official, have written an urgent letter to Christopher Hill, the U.S....
Demonstrators in black blindfolds and simulated bloody shirts with the names of Iranian exiles being detained by Iraq gather in front of the White House in Washington August 8, 2009. The rally was held in support of Iranian exiles in Camp Ashraf in Iraq who have been forcibly removed and detained by Iraqi forces, resulting in deaths and injuries.

Hundreds hold White House rally in worldwide solidarity with residents of Ashraf

Source: US Committee for Camp Ashraf ResidentsWASHINGTON, Aug. 9 - Hundreds of Iranian-Americans held a rally on the 11th day of a hunger strike...
Following the barbaric attack last week by Iraqi forces against the residents of Ashraf City, which led to the death of 9 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and left 500 injured and 36 others taken hostage by Iraqi forces, Iranians and supporters of the Resistance in many countries have held protests and hunger strikes. In addition to Ashraf residents, supporters of the Resistance have gone on hunger strike in Washington DC outside the White House and opposite US embassies in London, Berlin and Ottawa. Many of the hunger-strikers, in particular the women, are in a poor state of health and some have been hospitalized.

NCRI Women’s Committee hails hunger-strikers for Camp Ashraf

NCRI Women’s Committee hails hunger-strikers, especially the womenIt urges all women’s rights organizations to support themNCRI - The NCRI Women’s Committee hails the residents...
Tom Tancredo is a former member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and five-term member of Congress from Colorado. He currently serves as the chairman of the Rocky Mountain Foundation.

Iranian dissidents trapped in no man’s land

by: Tom TancredoSource: The Washington TimesObama's silence about fate of PMOI won't appease mullahsMost Americans have never heard of Camp Ashraf, but recent events...
U.K. Law Society intervenes after Iraqi forces attack Camp Ashraf

U.K. Law Society intervenes after Iraqi forces attack Camp Ashraf

NCRI - The International Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales* points out that the residents of Camp Ashraf are...
Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), attends a memorial service in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, August 2, 2009. Iraq's government acknowledged on July 30 that seven Iranian exiles were killed when Iraqi forces took control of their camp this week north of Baghdad. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh had earlier denied anyone died in the clashes between Iraqi forces and protesters who tried to block their entry into Camp Ashraf, home to the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) for two decades.

Maryam Rajavi’s speech at ceremony in honor of Camp Ashraf martyrs

NCRI – The following is the English translation of excerpts of speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

U.S. House members criticize Clinton response on Camp Ashraf as “clearly inadequate”

Source: The Washington TimesBy James MorrisonA bipartisan group of House members Wednesday criticized Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for failing to demand protection...