… According to media reports from Baghdad two members of the Mojahedin were able to break away from the Rajavi cult and join the families in their picket outside the camp. Mr. Seyed Yousef Jafari from Ahwaz and Mr. Abdolghader Ostadi from Iranshahr spoke to reporters about their own ordeal as long-term captives inside the camp …
… The MKO’s advocates in Britain and America also joined the fray and demanded of their respective governments to intervene. But, in all these cries for help, no mention was made that it was the MKO leaders who were not allowing the members to leave the camp and visit with their families outside the camp …The families’ simple, straightforward and only demand is that they be able to meet with their relatives..
Mr. Yves Bonnet, former Member of French National Assembly and Director of the French Counterterrorism Agency (DST), has been fined and was ordered to pay compensation in a libel case on February 11, 2010. He was warned that further infringements would attract even more severe punishments. The defamation case was brought by Mr. Ehsan Naraghi, Mr. Jahangir Shadanlou and Mr. Manouchehr Shalali against Mr. Yves Bonnet who had falsely accused ..
… Thirty seven arrest warrants have been issued against individual members for their involvement in suppressing the 1991 Shabani uprising in Kurdistan. International arrest warrants have been issued for some individuals. Civil law suits for murder have also been brought against members of the MKO/MEK/PMOI in Tuz Khormato pertaining to the same period …
… A source inside the Mojahedin organisation’s headquarters in the affluent Paris suburb has reported that the earthquake in Haiti has been tagged as a fundraising opportunity. In an Open Letter to British PM Gordon Brown, Massoud Khodabandeh of Leeds based MESC Ltd, warned that the MKO’s … Under the patronage of western supporters, the MKO’s bogus charity was immediately reinvented under other names – in particular those fundraising for Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
… This requirement of respect for human rights must also apply to officers of the PMOI which, by all accounts, continues to use practices to intimidate the camp residents. Thus, they would not be free to decide their fate. As you know, France had objected that the PMOI/MKO/MEK, on the list of European terrorist organizations since 2002, was withdrawn in 2008 …
… The transfer of Camp Ashraf residents to buildings in Baghdad represents a significant step forward in finding an eventual humanitarian solution to the necessary expulsion of the MKO from Iraq…Since no western country has been willing to take any of the MKO/MEK/PMOI members, Iraq has looked inside its own borders for a solution…
… An aside by an Iraqi official to Iran Interlink tells the story. “There is no mention of a Spanish judge in our constitution”, he quipped. ”But we are quite clear that the MKO is illegal in our country. If Spain would like to host the MKO on its own soil, they are welcome to them!” … nobody who has any knowledge of the MKO would imagine that this is anything more than a three day propaganda offensive designed to shore up the remnants of the Saddam regime to irk the Iraqis who refuse to hand over their country to Saddamists.
… From November 2 the families began a hunger strike. They demand that the Iraqi government as the only responsible body in Iraq must take charge and allow the freedom of their children … American Army established a check point to prevent families release their loved ones from a terrorist cult of Mujahedin aka MKO/MEK/PMOI..Efforts by the Iraqi authorities, U.N. representatives, the ICRC and others to facilitate the humanitarian move have been blocked by the Americans..
… Sadly, we have discovered that a terrorist cult[MKO/MEK/PMOI] is still calling the shots in your country and that it is because of them that we cannot see those dear relatives whom we have travelled so far, and waited so long to see. Really, what harm can the eight of us do? … Eight visiting Iranians are waiting for your answer; guests in your country. Although we are elderly and weak we have gone on hunger strike.