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GENEVA) — A group of U.N. independent experts urged Iraq on Monday to reveal what happened to seven members of an Iranian dissident group who were allegedly abducted in September.
Six women and one man went missing after a Sept. 1 attack at that killed 52 people at the Camp Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq that once housed 3,000 Iranian exiles. The Geneva-based panel of human rights experts noted allegations that the attack and the abduction were conducted by Iraqi security forces.
The dissidents accuse Iraqi security forces of carrying out the killings, arguing that Iraq wants to reclaim camp property worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Baghdad denies involvement and says an internal dispute is to blame.
The 52 fatalities were among 101 core followers of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq dissident group who had stayed behind to protect and sell off its remaining property.
“We call upon the government of Iraq to speed up the investigations in order to disclose the fate and whereabouts of the individuals,” the U.N.’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said in a statement.
Read more: U.N. Calls on Iraq to Locate 7 Iranian Dissidents | TIME.com http://world.time.com/2013/12/09/u-n-calls-on-iraq-to-locate-7-iranian-dissidents/#ixzz2nTWs2IIP
Six women and one man went missing after a Sept. 1 attack at that killed 52 people at the Camp Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq that once housed 3,000 Iranian exiles. The Geneva-based panel of human rights experts noted allegations that the attack and the abduction were conducted by Iraqi security forces.
The dissidents accuse Iraqi security forces of carrying out the killings, arguing that Iraq wants to reclaim camp property worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Baghdad denies involvement and says an internal dispute is to blame.
The 52 fatalities were among 101 core followers of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq dissident group who had stayed behind to protect and sell off its remaining property.
“We call upon the government of Iraq to speed up the investigations in order to disclose the fate and whereabouts of the individuals,” the U.N.’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said in a statement.
Read more: U.N. Calls on Iraq to Locate 7 Iranian Dissidents | TIME.com http://world.time.com/2013/12/09/u-n-calls-on-iraq-to-locate-7-iranian-dissidents/#ixzz2nTWs2IIP
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