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Audio Photo Slide – Camp Ashraf

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Click on the photo to launch the 5 minute audio-photo slide. Testimonies…in their own words.

Yesterday I met two Iranian political refugees.  Their relatives are at Camp Ashraf, a refugee camp north of Baghdad with around 3500 Iranians.  At the end of July, Iraqi security forces entered the camp and beat the residents.  Eleven died and 500 were injured.

More info and previous posts here:

The Ashraf Saga

Massacre at Ashraf

 

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Nikolaj Nielsen

Nikolaj Nielsen has a Master's of Journalism and Media degree from a program partnership of three European universities - University of Arhus in Denmark, University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Swansea University in Wales. His work has been published at Reuters AlertNet, openDemocracy.net, the New Internationalist and others.

Areas of Focus:
Torture; Women and Children; Asylum;

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