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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Petition of The MEK members’ families

More than 1,700 awaiting families of nearly 700 captured members in the MEK camp in Albania, signed a petition to the International Criminal Court, to which a list of signatures was sent.
The text of the petition is as follows:

Mr. Karim A. A. Khan QC
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Information and Evidence Unit
Office of the Prosecutor
The Hague
The Netherlands

Dear Sir
Greetings and Regards,
Recently, 42 former members filed lawsuits against the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) led by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in the judicial system of Iran. A final verdict was issued in this regard in the International Court of Justice in Tehran and all the documents were handed over to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague for your consideration and action. The crimes of the MEK against its members are not limited to these individuals or to the past time and still continue daily.

At present, about 2,000 members of the MEK are living in the organization’s forced labor camp in Albania under the control of a destructive mind control cult and in modern slavery situation, and have no right to have any contact with the outside world, especially family and friends.
“Widespread and Systematic Crimes Against Humanity” is what has been and is happening for decades in the camps of the MEK in Iraq in the past and now in Albania against the members of this organization, which is the gravest of concern to the international community.
Based on the abundant evidence, the members of the MEK are prominent examples of serious violations of basic rights committed as part such as murder, rape, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, enslavement, sexual slavery, torture, apartheid and deportation. They are victims of crimes against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute.

We call on you in the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute and bring to justice the leaders of the MEK who continue to criminalize their followers and violate their most basic rights on European soil. And to rule for the rescue of hundreds of captives who are currently held incommunicado in the Rajavi Cult’s closed, isolated and remote camp in Albania.

With all respects,
Families of members of MEK
List of names, details and signatures of 1718 family members is attached

November 9, 2021 1 comment

Maryam Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi Enemy of Diplomacy

The Mojahedin’s fake Twitter account ‘Heshmat Alavi’ has surfaced again. This time to attack Representative Ilhan Omar and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) advocacy group. The MEK (through the Heshmat Alavi account) accuses Omar of “appeasing” the Iranian regime by advocating for diplomacy over war as a policy aim. The MEK claims that former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is feeding her, through various individuals linked to NIAC, narratives that “push Iran’s talking points”. But Iran’s talking points are not hidden or obscure; ‘don’t threaten us, lift sanctions’ appears to be the nub of it.

In January 2020, when Joe Biden was sworn in as president, we warned that he must act swiftly to establish a diplomatic route to differentiate his administration from the Trump administration in relation to Iran. He failed to do any such thing and US policy toward Iran has not changed, it is all sticks and no carrots. But Iran is not the same country it was even two years ago. There is no sign that Iran wants or needs to engage with the US. President Raisi is looking eastward for allies and is ‘diplomatically’ ignoring the US in real terms. Calls for diplomacy are an acknowledgement of this new reality.

Initially, in 2020, the MEK tried to attach itself to the Democratic Biden administration. However, Biden has proven incapable of either making new policy or taking any decisive action on Iran. In response, the MEK recently hitched up with Mike Pence. An indication that the MEK’s backers believe the Republicans are still the safe bet in confronting Iran.

The Mojahedin’s fake Twitter account ‘Heshmat Alavi’

The Heshmat Alavi attack on Rep. Omar is characteristically wrong footed in that it completely fails to understand the irony of its own position. After what it believes to be a clever ‘whodunnit’ to join the dots of people Omar has been in contact with – all people who live out their professional lives in the full glare of public notice and accountability – Alavi demands that NIAC be investigated as a lobbying arm of the Iranian government.

Instead, the NCRI (aka MEK) should be investigated. In June BGR Group registered the NCRI (aka MEK) as a foreign principal (agent) in the USA. BGR Group was to provide public relations services for their annual conference. The document describes the NCRI as neither a state nor a political party, it claims instead to be a political organization acting as a “parliament-in-exile”. In section 10. The NCRI claims not to be owned, directed by, controlled by, financed by or subsidized in part by a foreign government, foreign political party, or other foreign principal. This flies in the face of all available evidence that in fact the NCRI (aka MEK) has been funded and directed by a variety of the above, from Saddam Hussein to the Saudis, Israelis and elements in the US itself for decades.

There is only one reason why the MEK, through disinformation, character assassination and false accusations, would need to totally reject any move toward increasing diplomatic relations with Iran. That is because the very existence of this group depends on conflict, violence and enmity. Unfortunately for Maryam Rajavi, the world has moved on without her.

By Ann Singleton

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Habibollah Qasemi family wrote letter to the ICC prosecutor

Mr. Karim Khan,
Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Greetings,

Mojahedin members in Turkey deceived our brother Habibollah Qasemi, who had gone to find work, and transferred him to their camps in Iraq. The cult leaders deliberately deprived us of our basic right of contacting and visiting Habibillah.
Unfortunately, despite the apparent violation of human rights by the MEK leaders, no action has been taken by the international human rights bodies. While supporting the complaints of a number of survivors of the Mojahedin sect, we ask you to immediately investigate and prosecute Maryam Rajavi.

Sincerely,
Qasemi family
Iran – Zanjan

Habibollah Qasemi family

November 8, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Leila Kiukan’s letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Mr. Karim A. A. Khan QC

I am Leila Kiukan, daughter of Mr. Rahim Kiukan, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization also known as MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult residing in the group camp in Albania.

I am 42 years old and I have not seen my father since I knew myself. I was a two-year-old child when my father left us and joined the MEK.
Reports from Albania and from the MEK camp indicate that my father is under intense pressure and control from the Rajavi Cult elements. My father is not allowed to communicate with others. He is not allowed to contact his family the same as other members in the group.
Members of the MEK in Albania do not enjoy the slightest human rights and have no right to communicate with the outside world. The way of life and sufferings of the group members and the way the leaders treat members is a clear example of violation of basic human rights.
We should have the right to see and embrace my father after forty years. The cult leaders do not allow us to have any contact with my father.
I ask you on behalf of my family, especially my suffering mother to help us visit my father.

Your excellency,
The final verdict of the Tehran International Court of Justice along with the due documents of the complaints of 42 former members of the Rajavi Cult have been submitted to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague for your consideration and action.
I urge you to expedite the investigation of this case and bring the criminal leaders of the MEK to the international justice.

Sincerely,
Leila Kiukan
Tehran

Leila Kiukan; daughter of Mr. Rahim Kiukan, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization

November 7, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK and Children – Siavash Nezam

Siavash Nezamolmolki was born in 1981 in Rasht, Iran. His father Hassan Nezamolmolki and his mother Nasrin Parsian were members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MEK). A year later, his parents took him abroad to join the MEK leaders in Europe. In 1987, the family were dispatched to Iraq to join the MEK military units in order to launch cross border attacks against Iran.

They were settled in Camp Ashraf where family life made no sense; children of the MEK members were kept in bases separated from their parents; they were only allowed to meet their parents in the weekends.
For Siavash, this imperfect family life lasted only three years. In 1990, Siavash was separated from his parents. At the time, about nine hundred children of MEK members were sent to Europe under the order of Massoud Rajavi. The nine-year-old Siavash met his mother for the last time and was then smuggled to Sweden by MEK agents. Like other MEK children, he spent life in homes of different MEK sympathizers and team houses of the MEK.
Siavash’s mother, Nasrin Parsian (Fazeleh) never saw her son again. She was killed in an accident in the road to Baghdad, in 1993. Some defectors of the MEK believe that Nasrin was killed under the order of the MEK leaders because she had started dissenting the group’s leaders in their so-called Elite council.

Siavash Nezamolmolki

Ali Saeedi former member of the group considers Hassan Nezamolmolki, Nasrin’s husband as the operator of the deadly accident. “At that time every one knew that Nasrin Parsian, member of the Elite Council, had just expressed her opposition against the so-called ideological revolution forged by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi,” Ali Saeedi writes. “So, Massoud Rajavi planned to eliminate her and the plan was executed by her devoted husband in that alleged accident.”

A few years later, Siavash was once again returned to Camp Ashraf as what the MEK leaders call “militia force” while his mother had been not been there anymore. He had made to leave the life in Europe behind and to stay under the cult-like structure of the group in Iraqi deserts.
In July 2009, after the US army handed over the security of Camp Ashraf to Iraqi Police, the latter needed to build a station inside Camp Ashraf but they were encountered by a human shield made of MEK members. The disarmed rank and file of the group started a suicidal clash with Iraqi armed forces. The deadly clash ended with the killing of Siavash Nezamolmolki and 12 other members of the MEK. Siavash was 28 years old when he was victimized by the Cult of Rajavi.

Farhad, former member of the MEK who was also a militia write about Siavash’s fate, addressing him “I am still obsessed with this question: why did Rajavi ruthlessly victimize you and others of the rank and file who were too young? Most of us standing by your grave knew you from childhood.”

The MEK-run media glorify Siavash and his mother as martyrs of the cause of the group. In the memorial statement that was published for Siavash on the group’s website , there is a blank in front of the word “education”. This implies that Siavash had not finished his education. He had been brought to Iraq by the MEK leaders just in the middle of his studies. This has happened to many of militia members of the MEK.
In a detailed report on the fate of another militia called Amin Golmaryami, recently published by the German Zeit Magazine you read, “From the mid-1990s, some of their former teachers remembered that People’s Mojahedin children suddenly disappeared from Cologne. They suddenly stopped showing up in their classes, 14-, 15-, 16-year-old teenagers. A former teacher says today that he informed the Cologne Youth Welfare Office and the guardian Christoph Meertens about it.”

Siavashi’s father Hassan Nezamolmolki is still an ardent member of the Cult of Rajavi. He shows up in the group’s TV as political or military analyst. Former members of the group, Javad Firouzmand and Ali Saeedi testify that Hassan was Rajavi’s representative to communicate Saddam’s intelligence authorities and one of the torturers and interrogators of the group to suppress members.

Siavash had also an aunt, his father’s sister, Maryam Nezamolmolki who left the group after she was relocated in Albania. Former member of the MEK, Maryam Sanjabi writes about Siavash’s aunt as one of the female victims of the Cult: “Maryam Nezamolmolki hated the MEK leader because they had victimized her nephew. She had realized the crimes of the group leaders so she did not want to stay in that hellish system. She expressed her complaints publicly and the criminal Rajavi did not allow her to leave. Under Rajavi’s regulations, candidates and members of the Elite Council would be sentenced to death in case of defecting. Thus, Maryam Nezam was imprisoned and kept under mental and physical pressure in Camp Ashraf.”

November 7, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 299

++ Mohammad Karami in Paris, former MEK member and human rights campaigner, published an article focusing on several MEK witnesses in the Swedish court case. Karami points out that these witnesses have claimed various things under oath. He then introduces them with photos and documents, as having worked for Saddam Hussein, carried out terrorist acts inside Iran and sworn pledges of unconditional total devotion to Rajavi while renouncing their own ‘self’. The documents are taken from the MEK themselves. Karami concludes, ‘if this does not prove that this court case is ridiculous, what will?’ On same subject, Hamed Sarafpour, an ex-member who writes analytical articles about the MEK, has written a piece on the court case. He begins by questioning, what is the reason they have watered down other witnesses like Mesdaghi and made the MEK witnesses so important. At first glance it could be said that because there are more of them this has been done to annoy Iran. Then as they move the witness list to Albania, and we look deeper, it becomes clear that it’s not about the case, it’s about rescuing Maryam Rajavi since the MEK cult is rapidly declining. Sarafpour points out that these witnesses never had a job, never paid a penny in tax, all have pledged lifelong, unconditional devotion to the leader and every one of them have been lying and deceiving for years. The Swedish case is being pursued to rescue Maryam Rajavi. But the problem is that by doing this, they have destroyed the credibility of the case. In the end, Iran is the winner. The losers are those who might have had a genuine grievance. They will never be able to get justice after this. Whoever pushed this behind the scenes has done a service to Iran in the long term and a disservice to those who actually had a case.

++ This week there was a cyber-attack on petrol stations in Iran which disrupted supplies for around half a day. For the next week the MEK claimed it as a victory as though they had done it. Some people comment that even if they haven’t done it, they should be given the credit because ‘if they could have, they would have’. This is the kind of people they are. The name of the attackers matches what they are: the killer sparrows.

++ Mehdi Khoshhal wrote about MEK acolyte Parviz Khazai in Norway. For the last three decades Khazai has said whatever the MEK ask him to with the pitch: ‘In Norway during the Second World war they executed traitors. So, therefore the MEK should execute the ex-members as traitors’. He gets paid to write this every time. Khoshhal has commented about Khazai himself. Before the 1979 Revolution, he was working in the Scandinavian embassy for the Shah. After the Revolution he stayed at the embassy and convinced the new government he would work for them. However, because he is a corrupt person, they wanted to dismiss him. This corruption included selling blank passports. When he was pushed out he took a lot of passports and documents from the embassy with him and took them to Rajavi, asking ‘how much?’ Rajavi appointed him his representative in Scandinavia. Khoshhal makes a second point: the ex MEK members that he is talking about executing are those who joined the MEK when the life expectancy for an MEK activist was around six months. They joined wanting nothing and giving everything. ‘Do you think’ asks Khoshhal, ‘that they are worried about execution?!’

++ In Albania, in the total silence of Rajavi and all the MEK sites and YouTube and Twitter etc, Ehsan Bidi has gone back to normal life. This week he celebrated his birthday with his friends – the former members. In a short interview he said, “I could not have resisted if it wasn’t for support of the families and these friends. I had the idea that this is not about me, it was about rescuing everybody.”

In Germany, Zeit Magazin published an interview by Lusia Hommerich with Amin Golmaryami, a former MEK child soldier. Golmaryami was a child of MEK parents who fled to Iraq after the Revolution. He was smuggled into Germany along with at least 40 other children in the early 1990s as Massoud Rajavi separated families to gain greater control over the cult members. Golmaryami had his brothers were exploited for social security fraud in Germany before being deceived into travelling to Iraq. Once in Iraq he was trapped and unable to leave until the MEK was transferred to Albania in 2013 and he could finally make his way back to Germany. In the interview, which spanned five meetings, Hommerich skilfully teases out the heartbreaking details of Golmaryami’s life under MEK control and his struggle to recover and pursue a normal, fulfilled life with his partner and new baby.

In English:

++ Massoud Khodabandeh wrote a piece on the MEK’s celebration of Maryam Rajavi’s three-decade long stint as ‘president-elect’, pointing out the irony that not a single election has been held sine to affirm or reject her in this role. Khodabandeh explains the way and the reason why this role was constructed by Massoud Rajavi in the early 1990s. The aim, for Massoud Rajavi, was to regain political support lost when he remained under Saddam’s protection during the First Gulf war. According to Khodabandeh, Maryam did not have the intelligence or political capabilities to undertake this work and instead tried to push her ‘feminist’ agenda among western women. Her main focus was on recruiting Iranian refugees to swell her audience. Essentially, Maryam Rajavi has based her career on performance and shows, with nothing concrete to show for her efforts or the vast sums of money spent.

++ Tasnim News in Iran reported on the use of terrorists as witnesses as Iran rejects the UN Human Rights Rapporteur’s report on Iran. “Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi delivered a speech to the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly focusing on “item 74: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” During her speech, Ershadi said, “We regret that one of the main sources of the Special Rapporteur continues to be the same terrorist groups which have long been laundered by their supporters and portrayed as opposition and so-called human rights defenders. Making use of unofficial, biased vague sources coming from sworn enemies, and taking a selective approach towards human rights achievements in the Islamic Republic of Iran put a serious question mark over the validity and reliability of such a report. It is repugnant to glorify terrorists whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent citizens.”

++ Several outlets reported on Mike Pence’s collaboration with the MEK. Daniel Larison, writing in the Anti War Blog, said “The willingness of so many prominent politicians and ex-officials to embrace such a group reflects how warped and toxic the debate over Iran policy is in this country.” He adds, “Any former official or retired officer that throws in with the MEK proves beyond any doubt that he hates the Iranian people and wants to cause them harm. In Pence’s case, we already knew that from the policies he supported in Congress and as Vice President, but it is useful to have it confirmed.”

++ Nejat Society in Iran has published Part One of a series of stories about nine women under the rule of Massoud Rajavi. Maryam Sanjabi, herself a former MEK member, writes about nine specific women who escaped the cult after it was relocated to Albania. She says, ‘the stories of some of these women were more complicated. The first part features the stories of four of these women.

Nov 05, 2021

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The cult of Rajavi

The case of another MEK child victim; Babak Shajari

Babak Shajari was a refugee child in Canada. He had been separated from his parents and had been transferred from Iraq to Canada in 1991 under the order of Massoud Rajavi.
Babak’s father Shadollah Shajari was a dentist. He was called Behrang in the Mujahedin Khalq organization. He was a hardworking supporter of the MEK in the Society of Muslim Students in Greece where Babak and his mother Sakineh Sadeghi later joined him.

Although Babak’s mother had no political tendencies, she followed her husband to join the MEK in Iraq under the order of the group leader, Massoud Rajavi. They were settled in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. They participated in the MEK’s cross border operation against their own country men, called “Forough Javidan”.

Organisational Divorces within PMOI

The catastrophic failure of the MEK in that operation became the pretext for Massoud Rajavi to run his cult of personality. He claimed that the reason for the failure was that the rank and file were obsessed with women and family life. Thus, he ordered members to divorce their spouses in order to be focused on the so-called struggle. Babak’s parents divorced as almost all married members of the group did.

The next phase of the process to destroy family life, took place in 1991 during the Gulf war. Massoud Rajavi ordered to separate 900 children of MEK members from their parents smuggling them to western countries. Babak was sent to Canada where he was kept under the group’s supervision in the houses of the MEK sympathizers.

Babak was in Canada when his father started to protest against the group tactics. He wanted to leave the group with his ex-wife but the group leaders did not let them meet each other. However, Shadollah (Behrang) left the group alone.
“Rajavi wanted to ruin any chance for Babak’s father to immigrate to Canada using the refugee status of his son so he ordered his agents to bring Babak back to Iraq,” Mitra Yusefi, former member of the group writes.
Therefore, Babak was brought back to Iraq under the order of Massoud Rajavi in 1998. Babak was said that he would meet his mother and then he would get back to Canada but there was no return for that trip. He was under the cult-like control of the MEK until the group was relocated in Albania, in 2014.

Former member of the group from Semnan, Iran, recalls Babak in Camp Ashraf, “Babak had a peaceful and quiet personality. He was not into the group’s regulation and after sometime he did not want to stay in the group any more but the group commanders tried to use his mother as an emotional tool to convince him to stay. In contrast, Babak and his mother were never allowed to keep in touch freely, without the commanders’ supervision.”

MKO defectors in Albania

Babak was in his thirties when he could manage to leave. As soon as he arrived in Albania, he left the group together with a group of other child victims of the group such as Amin Golmaryami and his brothers. Amin Golmaryami recently spoke out in the German Zeit Magazine and revealed the detailed story of living under the Cult of Rajavi which is very similar to that of Babak.

November 6, 2021 0 comments

Ataby pens letter to Bledar Çuçi, Minister of interior

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

letter to the Albania Minister of interior

Bledar (Bledi) Çuçi, Minister of interior
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

Greetings and Regards,
I am Mohammad Aq Atabai, a resident of Golestan province in northern Iran.
My family and I have not been able to contact my brother Hamid Mohammad Aq Atabai, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania, for nearly four decades.
Despite our presence several times in front of the MEK camp in Iraq, the leaders of this organization prevented us from meeting with my brother.
I hope that you and the officials of the Albanian government will help me and my family in the humanitarian work, which is to meet Hamid Mohammad Aq Atabay after 35 years of distance and separation.

Thank You,
Mohammad Aq Atabay
Golestan – Iran
Contact number: 00989119725205

Ataby pens letter to Bledar Çuçi, Minister of interior

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Samad Eskandari, former member of the MEK

Former members of the MEK

The Representative of MEK leaders’ plaintiffs pens letter to the ICC prosecutor

Mr. Karim Khan, Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Your Excellency,

I have a great responsibility as the representative of the plaintiffs of the MEK leaders’ case and it is my human duty to be the voice of all those who were tortured by the leaders of the Mojahedin.
I decided to send you some photos that show just a part of the sufferings of the separated members and other families of the prisoners in Rajavi Prison that were imposed on the victims by the Mojahedin. We hope that by seeing the pictures that show the cruelty of Maryam Rajavi, you sympathize with the families and survivors of the group and make justice practical. Undoubtedly, God Almighty will watch over our actions.

Yours,
Samad Eskandari, the plaintiffs’ representative
Zanjan-Iran

MEK members families in front of Camp Liberty - Iraq

MKO members’ families in front of Camp Liberty, Iraq- August 2016

MEK members families in front of Camp Ashraf – Iraq

MEK members families in front of Camp Liberty- Iraq

MEK members families in front of Camp Ashraf – Iraq

November 4, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The stories of nine women under the rule of Massoud Rajavi – Part Two

Maryam Sanjabi who escaped the MEK’s notorious base, Camp Ashraf, in Iraq in 2011, recounts the stories of these women under the abusive ruling of the MEK authorities:

MEK women

Nastaran Rastgarpour
She expressed her complaint against the MEK’s regulations and eventually she was faced with anger and violence. She was jailed in a corner of the camp. Nastaran was kept in a unit under the command of Giti Givechi. She was always supervised by two of the female devotees of Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. Although her family lived in Europe and she could simply move there to join them, she was not allowed to leave the group. Perhaps, she survived that horrible condition because she had secretly let her family know about her whereabouts so the group leaders did not dare to kill her.

Batul Alavi Taleghani
Batul had been deceived by the NEK recruiters together with her two sisters Azra and Maryam. Batul was so mindful that she soon realized the fraudulent trap of Rajavi. She was one of the first women who began distancing from the group’s ideology. She did not obey the cult-like regulations of the group. Due to her determination and resistance against the orders she was kept in a small room of the units. Whenever this brave woman was imposed too much pressure, she started shouting insults to Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
Batul Alavi Taleghani endured too much sufferings under the Cult of Rajavi that she finally fell sick and passed away. The leaders of the cult never let her out of that room. For more humiliation, they had made her sister, Maryam, to guard Batul. She needed specialized medical care but the group’s doctor, Javad Ahmadi just injected her strong sedative drugs . She was also given weird medications until she died.

Asefeh Jaafarzadeh
She was a young girl whose Mujahed parents had taken her to Iraq when she was a child. Asefeh was a smart girl. She soon started protesting. She wanted to leave Iraq and to have a free life. Under the order of the Rajavis, she was not allowed to leave.
However, Asefeh did not stop complaining. Eventually she was moved to a unit called “departure” but she was jailed there. She was kept for almost a decade.

The group leaders promised her to give her documents to her in order to take refuge in a third country but they never did. A woman, named Marzieh Ghaffari was her guardian.

Maryam Torabi
She was also a prisoner in the MEK cult. Mayam and her siblings Masoomeh and GhorbanAli Torabi joined the group in 1987. They naively thought that their dream to join a freedom fighting group had come true. Soon the Torabis were suspected as traitors by the commanders. They were jailed, interrogated and tortured by the group commanders in 1994. At the time about 500 members of the group were imprisoned under the accusation of being agents of the Iranian government. All of them were mentally and physically tortured and at least two people died.

Maryam was in solitary confinement for several months. She was under too much pressure. Her brother, GhorbanAli was killed under torture. Her brother’s murder was a trauma that drove Maryam mentally ill. The poor girl was kept under a humiliating situation in a unit in Camp Ashraf. The cult leaders even made her sister Masoomeh to verbally abuse her.
Maryam was under the most horrific mental pressure until the day I was in Camp Ashraf. The cult leader had no pity for her. They always discredited her before other women.

Saeedeh Keyhani
She was an educated girl who had graduated from a university in the United States. She had been transferred from the US to Iraq in the early 2000s. She could speak English well. She worked as translator for the MEK. However, the group leaders were vigilant about her. They knew that those members who had come from the US or Europe would soon want to get back there and if they left the group, they would never get back.
Shortly, Saeedeh stood up to protest against the MEK leaders. She did not let them coerce her but she had a distressing fate just like every other dissident inside the group. She was constantly under mental pressure. She was often insulted and humiliated in self-criticism meetings. She was always under severe control.

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