Despite growing presence of  snakes, scorpions, and insects, Ashraf residents are denied access to pesticides in Camp Liberty.

While it is almost three months since the first convoy of Ashraf residents arrived in Camp Liberty, the Iraqi government, in order to put the residents under pressure and for repressing them, still prevents the use of pesticides in the camp and the residents have to deal with the problem of snakes, scorpions, and vermin constantly.

Alzaman Independent Newspaper: April 30, 2012 - According to published news in media, the Iraqi authorities prevented the fourth group of Ashraf residents from taking the basic necessities for the injured and disabled in this group while moving to Liberty despite the fact that most individuals are fully or partially paralyzed and were by no means able to move unless on wheelchairs.  Below are some of their statements:

Iraq, April 20, 2012 - An anti-riot motorized unit with armoured vehicles and heavy machineguns has been deployed in Camp Liberty since 6.30 this morning, Friday, April 20. The unit is now based at four corners of the camp and in  the police station.

This reminds of the deployment of Iraqi armoured vehicles in Ashraf on April 3, 2011 and is truly an alarming sign indicating the ominous intentions just before Maliki's trip to Iran and his meeting with Khamenei who has always sought the annihilation of the Iranian opposition in Iraq.

Alejo Vidal-Quadras

Last Sunday the big family of the Iranian resistance lost one of its pillars. Lord Robin Corbett, chairman of the all-party British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom and Chair of the Labour peers' group in the House of Lords, passed away after a long battle with lung cancer on 19 February 2012. He was 78.