UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonWednesday, July 20, 2011
United Nations calls on the Iraqi government not to use force against the residents of Camp Ashraf
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Called for the United Nations, Wednesday, the Iraqi government to improve conditions in detention centers in accordance with international conventions, while expressing concern about the events taking place in Camp Ashraf, called on Iraqi authorities to refrain from the use of force against the population of the camp.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon in his third report, which he presented yesterday to the Security Council pursuant to paragraph VI of Resolution 1936, on progress made in fulfilling the responsibilities entrusted to the United Nations Mission for Assistance to Iraq, and got "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, "The challenges are still large in Iraq, despite the improvement in the situation of human rights and must be addressed in order to ensure the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms ", praising" the ongoing preparations for the establishment of High Commission of independent human rights in the country.
"The Ki-moon welcomed the "consultative process established to develop a national action plan Human rights are, if implemented, a milestone in the promotion of human rights protection mechanisms in Iraq, "calling" the Iraqi government to make every effort to ensure the application of due process and improving conditions in detention centers and in accordance with international conventions. " The moon has expressed concern "about the loss of life in the camp of the new Iraq (camp Ashraf) during the violent incident in the seventh and the eighth of April last, "and urged" the Iraqi authorities to refrain from the use of force and to ensure that the camp's residents on goods and services adequate.
"The Secretary-General of the United Nations, "the necessity of intensifying efforts by all parties concerned to use the options available and to seek a compromise solution to ensure respect for the sovereignty of Iraq and take into account the international law of human rights and humanitarian principles. " The Secretary-General of the Lam Ban Ki-moon said in his report to the Security Council yesterday that Iraq still faces great challenges at the political, security and development, while expressed concern about the disregard the needs of the Iraqi people important in the midst of challenges exist, called on all political parties to achieve national reconciliation.
Also called moon, the Iraqi government to provide evidence of tangible progress and fast in meeting its obligations to Kuwait, stressing the need to confirm Iraq's readiness for the maintenance of the border, Iraq - Kuwait, and the obligation to compensate Iraqis who left their shares on Kuwaiti territory following the demarcation of the border.
The Amnesty International said in a report released in January, that Iraq is running secret prisons, subjected the prisoners to the operations torture routinely to extract confessions are used to convict them, indicating that the Iraqi security forces use torture and other beatings and ill-treatment to extract confessions from detainees who are being held in isolation from the outside world, especially in detention facilities, as refuted by the Iraqi Justice Ministry report, stressing that the presence of the security services in prisons aims to provide protection.
Previously, Amnesty International revealed in a report issued on 12 September last year, 2010, for the existence of at least 30 thousand detainees in Iraqi prisons, has not made the right judgments, unexpected exposure to torture and ill-treatment, as well to the deaths of a number of detainees during their detention as a result of torture or ill-treatment by the investigators, or prison guards, who refuse to reveal the names of detainees to have. and take a crisis and there are elements MKO in Iraq, another dimension to these days, Vmelv those who had shown a strong hand and disappears sometimes another since the regime change in Iraq seems on his way to the discount after the release of the Iraqi government decision to end the Organization's presence in the country before the end of the year as a terrorist organization and took part of killing Iraqis, and reinforced the decision the latest announced by the Iraqi Ministry of Defense provided for the formation of a committee to investigate the riots witnessed by the camp nearly three months, while expressing his ministry on suspicions that the Organization used the riots to kill some of its supporters who wanted to leave the camp.
accused by Amnesty International in a report issued earlier, the Iraqi government killed at least thirty members of the PMOI opposition, and the wounding of others to use live bullets in an attempt to suppress protests against the Iraqi forces they have made at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province.
With The Government of Iraq to change the name of Ashraf camp to camp, the new Iraq after the receipt of the functions of security responsibility by the American troops, where she was repeatedly subject to to strict security measures. The PMOI (People) was founded in 1965, to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, after the Islamic revolution in 1979 opposed the Islamic regime, and took refuge in many of its members to Iraq during the war between Iran and Iraq from 1980 to 1988, the organization considers the armed wing of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, based in France, but announced it renounced violence in June 2001.
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