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Women, force for changeWomen’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of IranFebruary 2013
Call to protect 1000 women of the Iranian ResistanceCall for immediate return of residents to Camp AshrafResidents of Camp Liberty, including 1000 women must be transferred to Ashraf toensure their safety1000 vanguard women of the Iranian Resistance were attacked by rockets in Camp LibertyEarly morning of February 9th, Camp Liberty, which houses 3,100 members of the Iranian Resistanceamong which 1000 of them are women who have been fighting against the mullah’s regime for 33years, came under heavy mortar and missile attacks. So far, seven residents were killed and over 100injured.Among the deceased residents was Ms. Pouran Najafi, a former political prisoner to the dictatorialregime ruling Iran, also a mother. Among the injured was Ms. Massoumeh Malek Mohammadi, PMOIco-secretary general. She suffered injuries on her leg and both hands. Ms. Malek Mohammadi was alsoa political prisoner of the religious fascist regime ruling Iran who spent many years in Evin notoriousPrison.For the past 33 years, tens of thousands of people have been executed under torture in prisons of theinhuman and misogynist regime in Tehran. The women of the Iranian Resistance are now supportedby millions of women inside Iran and abroad. The 1000 vanguard women of Ashraf who havesacrificed their lives for a few decades in the struggle for the freedom of all women, youth and peopleof Iran are seriously supported and respected by renowned humanitarian and political personalitiesthroughout the world. In fear of their near downfall, the mullahs’ regime carried out the attack as theyalso gravely fear the increasing resistance of women and youth in Iran. The inhuman conditions ofCamp Liberty has turned it into a place worse than a prison since residents are not even permitted to bevisited by their lawyers and relatives.Rome, February 11, 2013Elisabetta Zamparutti, MP, ItalyBarbara Saltamartini, MP, ItalyAngela Napoli, MP, ItalyCristiana Muscardini, MEP, ItalyErminia Mazzoni, MEP, ItalyDebora Serracchiani, MEP, ItalyEnrica Girdano, Lawyer, ItalyGiorgia Barchiesi, Lawyer, ItalyMiriam Kahsai, Lawyer, ItalyProf. Dr. Rita Sussmuth,former president of German Parliament:Massacre in “Liberty”: Rocket attack shocks Iranian dissidents in sleep.Our worst of worries have been realized. I was informed of the morning rocket attack against residents of Camp Liberty while they wereasleep, with anger and sorrow. Members of the Iranian opposition must be protected and this will only be realized if they are returned toAshraf until they are re-located to third countries.Euro MPs call for Camp Liberty residents to be returned to Ashraf and designated as refugees by UNHCRThe EP Friends of a Free Iran intergroup, supported by over 200 MEPs from different political groups, held an urgent press conferencehighlighting the recent rocket attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq.Alejo Vidal-Quadras,Vice-President of the European Parliament said: “All the promises for the safety and security of the residents ofLiberty proved to be hollow. They are living in a prison and a killing field and another attack at any moment is possible."Struan Stevenson MEP,Chair of FOFI and President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Iraq said: “There is strongintelligence that this vicious attack against these defenseless refugees was carried out by the terrorist Quds (Jerusalem) force of the Iranianregime with the help and coordination of the Iraqi government. This was a well organized assault which required Iraqi assistance to succeed."February 12, 2013The death toll from a weekend mortar and rocket attack on an Iranian exiles' camp in Iraq rose Tuesday to seven…International condemnation of missile attack on Camp Liberty – February 9, 2013http://www.everyonegroup.com/Downloads/INTCondemn.pdf
Pouran Najafi was among the sevenresidents of Camp Liberty who were killedin the rocket attack on February 9, 2013.Pouran was a political prisoner for five yearsduring Khomeini’s rule and escaped Iran tocontinueherstruggleagainstthefundamentalist mullahs. She has one child.
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