Two brothers, Mehdi Sattar-ol Oyoub, 24, and Massoud Sattar-ol Oyoub, 20, are among the asylum seekers detained by PUK. Fearing arrest by the clerical regime's Intelligence Ministry, they left Iran around January 30 this year and entered Sulaymania in northern Iraq. They stayed at Cheraq Khan Inn on January 30 and 31, but were subsequently arrested by PUK agents and taken to Qalachualan prison at the headquarters of the PUK leadership. Mohammad Hossein Sattar-ol Oyoub, the detainees' brother, was executed in 1988 by the clerical regime. Their family in Iran has been under constant harassment in recent years by the Intelligence Ministry.
Despite repeated pleas made by international human rights organizations and personalities, the PUK has refused to release these two prisoners, unlawfully detained for more than six months without being charged. The two prisoners have been seriously maltreated during this time and held in solitary confinement for a long period . One of them is reportedly in critical condition.
After PUK leader Jalal Talebani's 17-day visit to Iran last spring, the PUK has stepped up its arbitrary detention of Iranian asylum seekers and providing facilities for the mullahs' terrorists dispatched to assassinate Iranian Kurds in Sulaymania region . Talebani has a long record of complicity with the regime in killing the Mojahedin or handing them over to the mullahs. The clerical regime summoned Talebani to Tehran to seek his assistance in carrying out new terrorist schemes and military conspiracies against the Iranian Resistance. During his visit to Iran from April 17 to May 4, 1999, Talebani had meetings with mullah Ali Younessi, the Minister of Intelligence, and Rahim Safavi, Commander of the Guards Corps.
Talebani attended lengthy meetings with members of the Guards Corps, the Intelligence Ministry and commanders of Ramazan Garrison and in return for the regime's generous donation of arms and money, he agreed to provide the necessary coordination for military and terrorist attacks on the Mojahedin. It was agreed that with the help of the PUK, the Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guards and agents of the Intelligence Ministry, as well as the mercenaries of the Guards Corps' 9th Badr Corps, escalate their terrorist operations and military attacks on the camps, units and vehicles of the Mojahedin and National Liberation Army in Iraq's Diyala Province. Talebani also agreed to grant the necessary facilities to the Revolutionary Guards to launch a ground offensive against the NLA's Ashraf Camp.
The PUK has cooperated with the clerical regime in dozens of terrorist operations against the Mojahedin in Iraq. The PUK handed over Hassan Zolfaqari and Bashar Shabibi to the Guards Corps who were subsequently executed. Both were members of the Mojahedin who had been detained by the PUK. A PUK official acknowledged in an interview with Agence France Presse on April 13, 1991, that the two were handed over to the Revolutionary Guards. The PUK has also killed dozens of Mojahedin members at various junctures, in Jalawla, Kelar, Posht Ashan, and on Kirkuk-Sulaymania highway.
The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran urges the United Nations, the Security Council, and international human rights organizations to the clerical regime and PUK's joint plot against Iranian asylum seekers and calls on them to take urgent action to immediately free the incarcerated asylum seekers and prevent further terrorization, intimidation and extradition of the others to Iran's clerical regime.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
August 11, 1999
CC:
- UN Secretary General
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Amnesty International
- UNHRC Special Representative on Iran
- UNHRC Rapporteur on Forced Disappearances
- International human rights organizations
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