Declaration on Camp Ashraf

The European Parliament adopted a declaration on Camp Ashraf (home to 3400 Iranian dissidents in Iraq, including 1000 women).

It recalls that several relatives of Ashraf residents have been sentenced to death by the Iranian regime after returning from visits to their families in Ashraf. It states that US and UN forces have withdrawn from Ashraf and residents are now vulnerable to attack. The residents are still being subjected to external pressures under the pretext that the  People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI)  remains on the US blacklist.

Parliament calls on the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to urge the USA to follow the example of the EU by removing the PMOI from its blacklist and to urge the UN to provide urgent protection for Ashraf.