Advisory Board

Founding President
LATE Rt. Hon. The Lord Slynn of Hadley, Former Judge at the European Court of Justice, UK Honourary Presidents M. Cherif Bassiouni, Distinguished Research Professor of Law; President Emeritus, International Human Rights Law Institute, US Prof. Eric David, President, Centre of International Law, the Free University of Brussels, EU Franois Serres, Lawyer Paris Bar Canada Hon. David Kilgour, JD, Former Canadian Secretary of State for Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific Paul D. Copeland, Director, Law Society of Upper Canada Warren Creates, LLB, Head of Immigration Law Group France Mario Stasi, Former President, Paris Bar Association Prof. Jean-Yves de Cara Faculty of Law, University of Paris V Ren Descartes Bertrand Favreau, President, Human Rights Institute of the Bar of Bordeaux Gilles Paruelle, Former President of the Val dOise Bar Association Italy Fabio Marcelli, Chairman, Association of Democratic LawyersItaly Sweden Kenneth Lewis, President, Lawyers Without Borders Sweden Switzerland Prof. Marc Henzelin, LL.M, Exeter The United Kingdom The Rt. Hon. The Lord Waddington GCVO DL QC, Former Home Secretary under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher The Rt. Hon. The Lord Archer of Sandwell, QC, Former UK Solicitor General Lord Taverne, QC Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Consultant at Bindman & Partners Prof. Bill Bowring, Barrister, Professor of Law, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London Malcolm Fowler, Member, International Human Rights Committee of the Law Society, former President, Birmingham Law Society, former Chair, Criminal Law Committee of the Law Society of England & Wales Stephen Grosz, Head of Public Law and Human Rights Department, Bindman & Partners The United States Dr. Allan Gerson, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legal Counsel, the U.S. Department of Justice Steven M. Schneebaum, Professorial Lecturer in International Law, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

ICJDA Press Release

4 January 2012 Iraqi government manipulating UNAMI to imprison the residents of Ashraf Trampling upon all UN values, norms and standards to please the Iranian regime ICJDA impresses upon its clients again that they should not go to the new location without prior inspection and presence of their lawyers. While 400 residents of Camp Ashraf prepared to relocate from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty with their vehicles and moveable assets on December 30th (ICJDA has the relevant video clips) upon the demand of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistances Presidentelect, the Iraqi government has been engaging in deception and manipulating UNAMI in order to imprison the residents of Camp Ashraf. To this end, all international humanitarian standards and UN values and norms are trampled upon as a gift to appease the Iranian regime to ensure that it is satisfied with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. None of the three requests by Mrs. Rajavi and the residents of Ashraf has been accepted so far, i.e., inspecting the new location by a number of Ashraf engineers, immediate relocation of 400 residents with their vehicles and moveable property and accepting the minimum assurances to convince the remaining residents to move to Camp Liberty in the months remaining to the extended deadline. While the residents of Ashraf are under tremendous pressure to hastily relocate to a site which they have not seen even once, precise reports provided by the NCRI point to a blatant prison building disguised as preparing Camp Liberty. US and UN officials had previously said that the new camp allocated for the residents of Ashraf will be around 40 Sqr. Kms and the US forces have left behind sufficient facilities and infrastructure. In practice, however, this location has been reduced to one Sqr. Km and the Iraqi government, which took over Camp Liberty on December 3, has left less than 2.5 percent of the area for the residents of Ashraf. Iraqi forces are using many cranes to quickly build a prison by installing prefabricated concrete walls, three to four meters tall, around an area which contains nothing but worn-out trailers left by the US forces. This is while the residents do not have the right to venture outside the walls and are deprived of visiting their lawyers. The bathrooms are out of order and unusable. The dining hall, which will be encircled with walls, is outside the living areas and it is extremely difficult for the wounded, the patients and the elderly to go there. According to a report sent to Tehran by the Iranian regimes embassy in Baghdad, the police and the police station will be inside the area encircled with concrete walls to control the prisoners on a 24/7 basis. This collection of trailers was previously a garrison and it is in no way appropriate for more than 3,000 people to live under normal living standards.

Executive Director

In a letter on December 26 to the UN Secretary General and his Special Representative for Iraq, the residents of Ashraf wrote: You will concur with us that forcible displacement, is prohibited under international law. The current drive to relocate us is being done under constraint, against our free choice and will, and while we do not have the minimum assurances for our safety and security.

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ICJDA draws the attention of the UN Secretary General and his Special Representative, Ambasador Martin Kobler, to the deception by the Committee to suppress Ashraf in the Iraqi Prime Ministers office. On behalf of 8,500 lawyers and jurists in Europe and North America, ICJDA: 1. Demands to visit the new site. 2. Calls on the US, the EU and the UN, in particular the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions to inspect the site and issue a certificate as to its compatibility with humanitarian standards and UN norms before the residents of Ashraf are relocated to Camp Liberty. 3. It again impresses upon its clients at Ashraf not go to the new location before prior inspection of Liberty by the lawyers and the issuance of a certificate of compatibility by the United Nations. International Committee of Jurists in Defence of Ashraf

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