Home - U.S. Foundation for Liberty and Human Rights

Support a Democratic, Secular, Republic and Non-Nuclear Iran

We Can and We Must!

DONATE NOW

LATEST NEWS

Iran: Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown

Friday, March 17, 2023
0 Likes

March 16, 2023- Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement in nationwide protests, said Amnesty International today.Marking six months of the unprecedented popular...

Iran: Deliberate Poisoning of Students Continues in Various Cities

Thursday, March 2, 2023
0 Likes

March 2, 2023-The project of poisoning students in girls’ schools is gaining new dimensions every day, and the leaders of the regime are trying to hide the regime’s role in this crime by lying and creating conflicting scenarios. Zahra Sheikhi, the spokesperson of the Health Committee of mullahs’ parliament, Majlis,...

A Political Prisoner Executed in Iran

Thursday, March 2, 2023
0 Likes

On Wednesday, February 22, the Iranian regime secretly hanged the political prisoner Sarkut Ahmadi from Ravansar, who had been in the Dizelabad prison of Kermanshah for the past two years ago. Mr. Ahmadi, 29, was sentenced to death in January 2021 for the death of a State Security Force...

Iran: Young man at grave risk of execution in connection with protests amid ‘killing spree’

Sunday, January 15, 2023
0 Likes

Amnesty International January 11: The Iranian authorities must immediately halt all executions of people sentenced to death in relation to nationwide protests, Amnesty International said today, condemning the arbitrary executions of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini on 7 January and warning that Mohammad Ghobadlou and others risk...

Secretary Kerry’s Remarks on Camp Liberty

John Kerry
Secretary of State

Washington, DC
September 12, 2016

….Let me make a quick comment about good news, because obviously we know we live in a turbulent era and too often there are (coughs) one challenge or another about conflict that, unfortunately, doesn’t bring good news. But I believe it’s important to note a very important humanitarian accomplishment from late last week. I was going to mention it but it was so late – or early in the morning in Geneva – that I didn’t.

But on Friday of last week, the last 280 members of the exiled Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MEK, as they’re known, were moved out of Camp Liberty in Iraq. And their departure concludes a significant American diplomatic initiative that has assured the safety of more than 3,000 MEK members whose lives have been under threat. And as everybody remembers, the camp they were in had on many occasions been shelled. There were people killed and injured. And we have been trying to figure out the way forward.

Well, the last 10 years have been filled with reminders of this challenge. I first became involved in this effort when I was in the Senate, and that is why during my first year as Secretary I appointed Jonathan Winer, one of my longest-serving and most trusted advisers, as our emissary to find a way to help the MEK be able to leave Iraq.

After steady progress over a period of months, I visited Tirana earlier this year and I discussed with the Albanian Government how to assist in facilitating the transfer and the resettlement of the last group of MEK members from Camp Liberty. Albania has a proud tradition of protecting vulnerable communities, as it did during the Kosovo conflict and in sheltering large numbers of Jews during World War II. I am very grateful that in this case too Albania was willing to play an important humanitarian role. I also want to thank the governments of Germany, Norway, Italy, the U.K., Finland, and other EU countries for helping to save the lives of the MEK. And this is a major humanitarian achievement, and I’m very proud that the United States was able to play a pivotal role in helping to get this job done.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/09/261776.htm

Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed in /home/customer/www/usflhr.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/facebook-pagelike-widget/fb_class.php on line 44

U.S. Foundation for Liberty
and Human Rights

SECURING LIBERTY

CAMP LIBERTY

DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT

VOICE FOR LIBERTY

LATEST NEWS

Iran: Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown

Iran: Deliberate Poisoning of Students Continues in Various Cities

A Political Prisoner Executed in Iran

Iran: Young man at grave risk of execution in connection with protests amid ‘killing spree’

EVENTS