Delivery of fuel, food stuff and medicine to Camp Liberty prevented for the fourth successive day

Thursday, June 30, 2016, for the fourth successive day, the Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Camp Liberty residents has prevented entry of tankers carrying fuel and oil for generators, and trucks carrying food stuffs, hygiene products and medicine to Camp Liberty. They have sent back the tankers and trucks after stopping them for some time. This inhumane measure which has started since June 27th, will rapidly create a crisis in the Camp.

A familiar excuse for such inhuman actions is the alleged failure of the company providing logistics to the camp to update its vehicles' documents. This is while based on a previously agreed arrangement, the same company has been providing the needs of Camp Liberty residents for the past 4.5 years and its vehicles have been entering the airport area. Meanwhile, the logistics company updated all the needed documents only two weeks ago and sent them for the relevant Iraqi authorities.

While all the vital systems in the camp including water purification, sewage, air conditioning, cooking and food refrigeration are electrical and the only source of power generation are the camp's old generators, preventing fuel delivery to the camp rapidly brings all the systems to a halt and creates a dangerous crisis in the camp.

By preventing delivery of fuel, food and medicine in the 50C heat of the month of Ramadan, the Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Camp Liberty residents seeks to bring maximum pressure on the camp's residents and torment them physically and psychologically. These actions are in gross violation of a number of international conventions and specifically the MOU signed between the Government of Iraq and the United Nations on December 25, 2011, and their perpetrators have to be prosecuted by international tribunals.

The Iranian Resistance recalls the written commitments repeatedly made by the United Nations and the United States promising to ensure the safety and security of Camp Liberty residents and demands their immediate intervention to end the inhumane blockade imposed on Camp Liberty, and to resume delivery of Camp residents' needs, particularly the delivery of fuel, food and medicines.

The Iranian Resistance also calls on international human rights organizations, the UNHCR, the Human Rights Council and other relevant UN agencies and rapporteurs to condemn the criminal blockade imposed on Camp Liberty and compel the Government of Iraq to end the siege.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 30, 2016

US: Iran's government make no sufficient efforts to prevent human trafficking

US Trafficking in Persons Report 2016 says Iranian officials are involved in the coerced recruitment and use of Afghan men for combat in Syria

 The US State Department has issued its annual 'Trafficking in Persons Report 2016' on 30 June 2016.
The report puts Iran in the lowest Tier 3 of its four-step classification of countries. Iran has been classified in the lowest category since 2009.
Other Tier 3 countries include North Korea, Russia, Sudan and Syria.

allowing is part of US State Department's annual 'Trafficking in Persons Report 2016' about Iran:

Iran government made minimal efforts to prevent trafficking…

IRAN: Tier 3
 Iran is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. Accurate information on human trafficking in Iran is difficult to obtain. Organized groups reportedly subject Iranian women, boys, and girls to sex trafficking in Iran and in Afghanistan, the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, and Europe. Iranian girls between the ages of 13 and 17 are targeted by traffickers for sale abroad…
An increase in the transport of girls from and through Iran en route to other Gulf States for sexual exploitation has been reported from 2009-2015; during the reporting period, Iranian trafficking networks subjected Iranian girls to sex trafficking in brothels in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region…In Tehran, Tabriz, and Astara, the number of teenage girls exploited in sex trafficking continues to increase.
Organized criminal groups kidnap or purchase and force Iranian and immigrant children to work as beggars and street vendors in cities, including Tehran. These children, who may be as young as 3, are coerced through physical and sexual abuse and drug addiction; reportedly many are purchased for as little as $150.
In January 2016, an international organization reported the Iranian government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) coerced male Afghans resident in Iran, including migrants and refugees, to fight in military brigades deployed to Syria by threatening them with arrest and deportation to Afghanistan. Afghan boys in Iran are vulnerable to sexual abuse by their employers and harassment or blackmailing by the Iranian security service and other government officials. Traffickers subject Afghan migrants, including boys, to forced labor in construction and agricultural sectors in Iran. Trafficking networks smuggle Afghan nationals living in Iran to Europe and force them to work in restaurants to pay off debts incurred by smuggling fees.