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Luisa Hommerich recommend Children of Camp Ashraf

German journalist Luisa Hommerich recommended Swedish citizens to watch the documentary, “the Children of Camp Ashraf”.

In 2021, the German journalist Louisa Homrich published a detailed article about the children of the Mujahedin Khalq in De Zite magazine, which was focused on the life story of Amin Gol Maryami, one of the former child soldiers of the group. In this article, the situation of the MEK children who were separated from their parents, smuggled to Europe and settled in Germany was discussed and eventually accusations were made against the group. As expected, it resulted in the reaction of the MEK against the German magazine.

Following the screening of the children’s documentary of Camp Ashraf by Sara Moin at the Swedish Goteborg Festival, Luisa Hommerich invited the residents of Sweden to watch this documentary on her X account:

Recommendation: If you are in Sweden, watch “Children of Camp Ashraf” at the Goteborg Film Festival. In the documentary, children from the Iranian #MEK cult speak on camera for the 1st time. (The cult has been deceiving European politicians for decades)

Luisa Hommerich recommend Children of Camp Ashraf

She also mentioned her experience in De Zeit magazine in dealing with the issue of children whose rights have been violated in the Mujahedin-e Khalq cult:
(Over 2 years ago we first broke the story that the cult allegedly trafficked children from Europe to a secretive camp in Iraq and trained them as soldiers. https://zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2021/44/amin-golmaryami-flucht-irak-volksmudschahedin-militaercamp-organisation

The #MEK/Mujahideen-e Khalq tried to sue against the article but lost on all counts 1 year ago.)

Luisa Hommerich recommend Children of Camp Ashraf

After the premiere of the documentary, Sara Moin, the director, in an interview with Keyhan London, mentioned Luisa Hommerich’s article in De Zeit magazine as a good start to deal with the tragedy of the children of the MEK.

February 17, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

How the media can change the life of MEK hostages

As a destructive cult, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) keep its members in isolation. Members of the group has no access to the media. They are not allowed to contact the outside world by any means. The only accessible media is the group’s TV channel which censures the news in accordance with the ideology of the Cult of Rajavi. Aldo Sulollari, the Albanian journalist and a member of Nejat Society Albania, has published a piece on the Albanian Kristal TV emphasizing the impact of the media to develop human relations. In case of the MEK members, the media have so far aided the reunion of many families.
In his recent article on Kristal TV, Solullari refers to two brothers who are former members of the MEK. After the younger brother, Sarfaraz, left the group, he was never allowed to visit or call his brother Bijar who was still taken as a hostage in the MEK. However, the media finally helped them reunite after years of separation. Bijar escaped the MEK’s headquarter in Albania, Ashraf 3, last July about eight years after his brother had left.
Aldo Sulollari wrote the article in Albanian under the title “An interview that changed human relations, the truth must be ‘shouted’” :

How important is the media and its investment in society?
In the Albanian society there is a group that came here with a humanitarian shelter status and that came as a necessity of a more westernized life. Albania first opened its doors to over 300 Iranians and then over 3,000 of them stay in the Manza camp, Ashraf 3.

The MEK organization came to Albania promising their members that the world is beautiful and that they would integrate into the countries that created their agreement.
Some of them chose to leave the MEK camp, surrendering to the Albanian institutions, demanding freedom, and showing their truth.

They state that in the previous organization, they could not communicate with their families, the use of mobile phones was not allowed, and the couples who were put together were not allowed to remain under the status of husband and wife, but would be treated as strangers.
MEK had told them that if they left their camp, they would be isolated by the Albanian police, and that our institutions were harsh.

However, the truth turns out differently.
Sarfaraz Rahimi, a member of the Nejat association, stated in the media that he had sought to communicate with his brother, Bijar Rahimi, who was also in the MEK camp and was not allowed to communicate together. To connect him with the media, this story was published in the national media Euronews Albania, where his interview was broadcast. Here the media played a very important role to change the life history of the two brothers for the better.

Bijar Rahimi had been following the story of his brother, who was looking for him in the media, and felt deceived when the MEK organization had told him that your brother Sarfarazi never looked for you, but simply married an Albanian girl, and did not care about you.

Rahimi brothers, who are Baluch Iranians, reunited, and started their new life, following their passions and professions. This is proof that the media plays a very important role.

It was me again, who, together with Mr. Bijar Rahimi, once again dared to tell the Albanian public what Bijar’s life was like inside that camp, and he proves that life outside, in Albania, is fantastic, and that Albanian institutions are wonderful.
Another Iranian had seen this interview and he was Ali Zamani, he chose to live free, and understood through the media, that life is beautiful.

The media chooses its own mission, to support the truth, or to make biased political propaganda, showbiz or any other sector where it can depend.
This was a true story, how incredible is that the media chose to change life for the better.

Aldo Sulollari – Journalist, Nejat Society Albania – Kristal TV – Translated by Nejat Society

February 13, 2024 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

This film is a proof against the MEK lies about Ashraf children

Amir Vafa Yaghmai, a former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and one of the 4 people who appears in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf, responded to the accusations of the group against the film’s crew in an interview with Mihan TVI. He announced his willingness to answer the audience’s questions in order to reveal the true nature of the MEK.

According to Yaghmai, it took the film makers about six years to make the film. He states that the documents related to the budget for making the film and the necessary legal permits are available in Sweden.

Amir Vafa Yaghmai, is in his early forties, married and has two children. He is an environmental expert and a citizen of Sweden. Among the 4 people whose lives have been documented in the Children of Camp Ashraf, Amir is a person who, like many other children of the MEK, was sent back to Iraq as a child soldier at the age of 14 and served in the so-called National Liberation Army of the group. In this video, he talks about friends who, like him, were sent back to Camp Ashraf in Iraq while they were under legal age and eventually, they were killed there.

Amir Vafa Yaghmaei, a former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq

According to Amir, he and others involved in the film expected the hostile reaction of the MEK to the release of the film, but the reaction of Rajavi’s organization was more aggressive than what they expected, particularly because this “astonishing” reaction occurred before watching the content of the film. In his opinion, the fear and terror that leaders of the MEK feel is originated from the truths that the former children of Camp Ashraf have testified in this documentary. This indicates an important point: the organization’s approach to freedom of expression.

Amir Vafa Yaghmai believes that the smuggling of the MEK children to Europe and North America was part of the project of family separation in Rajavi’s Cult, which had previously been started with forced divorces, and the first Gulf War provided Rajavi with a golden opportunity to complete his project.

This former child soldier provides thought-provoking details about people who protested against the screening of the film in front of the movie theater and inside it. For example, the person who spoke as a speaker for the crowd of protesters is Mohsen Rezaei, with the organizational nickname of Habib. He is the very person who is responsible for persuading him and other child soldiers to return to Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform their “historical duty” and to continue the path of their parents. Amir considers this person a criminal who deserves to be tried in a court.

Amir Yaghmai gives other information about the signatories of the so-called letter against the filmmakers, which shows that each of these people has a dark background in the organization, and due to their scandalous cases, they were forced to obey the organization’s orders. For example, he mentions Hossein Razavi, who was accused of sexually assaulting boys in Camp Ashraf.

Also, Amir knows two former child soldiers who shout in the movie theater and introduce themselves as children of Ashraf and consider the content of the film as a lie made by the Iranian government; He considers them as his comrades, who are victims of the deceitful structure and slanderous conditions of the MEK.

Based on Yaghmai’s testimonies, he and three other people whose lives have been documented in this movie, according to the contract they signed with the producers, they did not receive any money for appearing in the movie.

He expresses his happiness that the issue of child soldiers of the MEK has been brought up in European societies hoping that in the future, foreign audiences will be more aware of the facts of inside the MEK and the bitter stories of the children who survived this cult. He considers it as his responsibility to talk about the suffering that has happened to the children of the MEK, both among the sympathizer families abroad and in Camp Ashraf. He declares his readiness to spread awareness about this as much as possible.

February 12, 2024 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Yaser, a murdered child soldier of Camp Ashraf

Following the screening of the Children of Camp Ashraf documentary at the Swedish Goteborg Festival, Nejat Society interviewed the family of one of the child soldiers who was killed inside Camp Ashraf. Reza Akbari Nasab, an active member of Nejat society and the uncle of Yaser Akbari Nasab, told us about the fate of Yaser, his young nephew whose story has been heard in the testimonies of a large number of defectors of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

Reza’s 2 nephews and 1 niece were among the children of Camp Ashraf. Yaser, Musa and Fatemeh were the three children of Reza Akbarinasab’s brother, Morteza, whose lives were awfully affected by the cult-like violence of Rajavi because of their father’s membership in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Among these three children, Yasser suffered the most traumatic fate. He was tragically killed in Camp Ashraf.

According to Akbari Nasab, Yaser got involved with the MEK since he was three years old. As a child, he was separated from his parents under the order of Masoud Rajavi and was smuggled from Iraq to Europe along with hundreds of other children. He and his siblings were placed in the MEK’s orphanage buildings in Germany.

Yeser’s sister, Fatemeh, could not stand the abuses in the MEK’s team house in Germany and escaped the house, few years later. According to Reza Akbarinasab, the MEK commanders immediately smuggled Yaser and Musa back to Iraq, to prevent their escape from the cult. Like many other children of Mujahed parents, Musa and Yaser were recruited as soldiers of the group’s so-called Liberation army. The two teenagers were given military uniforms and were taught military trainings.

Referring to evidence from defectors of the MEK, Reza believes that Yasser was not happy with his conditions at Camp Ashraf from the beginning, and his dissatisfaction caused him to be subjected to cult-like violence. Finally, in June 2005, in a suspicious incident that seemed to be self-immolation, he was killed.

Yaser died soon and did not survive the Rajavis’ violence to share his life story with us like the 4 young people who share their lived experience in the MEK, in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf. His brother, Musa could manage to leave the group when it was located in Camp Liberty, Iraq.

Yaser was no more than 25 years old when he died. His two siblings managed to escape from the organization, but Yaser, who was not interested to stay in Camp Ashraf, became a victim of Masoud and Maryam Rajavi’s conspiracies to run their cult.

February 10, 2024 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

A letter to my brother; hostage at the MEK Camp

Dear Hadi,
I hope you are well and that there is still something left of your love and affection for Iran, Semnan and your family.

We are fine here. After many years of work, effort and service, I am now retired and I am having fun in the garden. But believe me, we will never forget you. I always think of your return. I always wonder even though you were a person of thought and logic, how can you spend your life in vanity and nonsense in this cult-like group? And with what logic do you convince yourself?!

Javad Nasiri-the brother of MEK hostage Hadi Nasiri

After years of wasting your life in vain, isn’t it time for you to think a little and make a decision with the courage that I used to know in you and release yourself from this prison?
Even if you don’t come to Iran, at least decide freely for your future and live wherever you like outside of the Mujahedin Khalq’s prison so that we can communicate with each other freely and easily whenever we want.

When you were here before, we had high hopes for your future, but I don’t know how and with what motivation you fell on this path.
However, there is still time to make a decision and we are impatiently waiting for good news from you. I hope that one day soon I will hear the news of your release from this hellish organization and I will be able to hear your voice and see your image freely.
Hoping that day, I entrust you to God.

Your brother, Javad Nasiri

February 6, 2024 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Atefeh Sebdani: the world will know more about this fanatical, terrible cult

Following the premiere of the documentary, “The Children of Camp Ashraf”, Atefeh Sebdani, wrote about her feelings on her Likedin account. Sebdani is one of the four children of Mujahed parents whose life story is documented by the director, Sara Moien.

Atefeh has recently debuted with the gripping autobiography My Hand in Mine. It is a story about growing up with no one to hold on to but yourself, of abuses that are skillfully covered up by the Mujahedin-Khalq (MEK) and a society that fails to see the vulnerable child.

Read her post on Linkedin after Sara Moien’s film was finally played in the Swedish Goteborg Festival:
They say you should face your fears. I don’t know how many times I’ve done it in my life, or how many more times I’ll have to do it.

It was a full circle when the world premiere of our documentary happened to be in my hometown.
It feels strange that years of recording and hard work from the production have now led to this. That the world will know more about this fanatical, terrible cult. That I kept this project a secret for so long and now can finally talk about it!

The cult did everything in its power to stop the film, harass the festival and production, and smear us protagonists. They have put out terrible press releases about us and their fear is seeping through.

I’ve felt every emotion imaginable this week. Fear, sadness, shock, joy, euphoria. It’s been overwhelming.
But what an important and beautiful documentary film. Sold out every day and a historical chapter. Don’t miss it when more chances come next, keep your eyes open and please support us.

This is what I wrote on my Instagram the day before the premiere:
Will I feel scared tomorrow?

I wanted to lie and say no to you, that I am now invincible. For, I am not alone. For, history is carried by more people now.
But I will be in the same city where those who hate me the most are, the cult member I grew up with. I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t care.

They say you should face your fears. I don’t know how many times I’ve done it in my life, or how many more times I’ll have to do it.
One thing at a time. Tomorrow, is a day to remember, a day to celebrate.

Many thanks to SVT Sara Moein Parwin Hoseinia Amir Vafa Linda Mutawi Hanif Bali Nima Sarvestani Iraj Mesdaghi Max Sebdani Jacobson Tell Aulin and so many more.

February 5, 2024 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Report on the Premier of “Children of Camp Ashraf” at the Goteborg Festival

The new documentary Children of Camp Ashraf was screened at the Gotenborg Film Festival in Sweden. On Wednesday, January 31, 2024, Sara Moin’s documentary was screened at the Goteborg Documentary Film Festival.

Children of Camp Ashraf deals with the story of 4 out of 900 children of Mujahedin_e Khalq (MEK) who were separated from their parents in 1991under the order of Masoud Rajavi and were smuggled from Camp Ashraf, Iraq to Europe and North America. Amir Yaghmai, Parvin Hosseini, Hanif Bali and Atefeh Sabdani are four of the 120 children of the MEK who were smuggled to Sweden at that time.

According to the information available on the festival’s website, the tickets for the first screening of the film at 5:45 pm on Wednesday were completely sold out about three weeks ago.

At the end of the movie, the crowd of Swedish spectators in the hall faced the tumult by the supporters of the MEK who were trying to convince the jury and the audience in the hall in non-Swedish languages that the film not based on truth.

https://dla.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Children-Ashraf/Doc-Children-Ashraf-202402-1.mp4

Tumult by the supporters of the MEK after the doc’s screening

Hanif Heideranjad, a former member of the MEK and a journalist, wrote in his report on premier of the Children of Camp Ashraf: “Instead of being responsible and accountable, instead of addressing the subject and content of the film and responding to the facts and documents and instead of addressing the testimonies of four people interviewed in the film, the MEK resorted to blind and baseless accusations against these four people.”

On his Face Book account, Siamak Naderi, a former member of the MEK, refers to the “disturbance and hooliganism of the forces sent by the Cult of Rajavi”. According to the statements of Siamak Naderi, Amir Yaghmai told him in a call that due to the commotion of the supporters of Rajavi, the question and answer session that had been held with the presence of the film crew was disrupted in the cinema hall.

Mohammad Reza Torabi, a former member of the MEK and a former child soldier of the group, who now lives in Germany, published a video on social networks about the troubles that the supporters of the MEK made during the screening of Sara Moin’s documentary in front of the festival cinema and inside the screening hall. According to his report, the Cult of Rajavi used other child soldiers who are themselves victims of Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality to disturb the cinema hall.

The documentary Children of Camp Ashraf is also scheduled to be played at the Tempo Festival in Sweden in March.

February 4, 2024 0 comments

Iran

About 23k Iranian civilians killed in terrorist attacks in 4 decades

Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi has said that as many as 23,000 Iranian civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades.

Gharibabadi made the remarks on Tuesday on the sideline of the fourth court for the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members in Tehran, adding that Iran is the biggest victim of terrorism in the world.

The terrorist group MKO alone has assassinated some 17,000 Iranians over the past four decades, he said adding that no country has been a victim of terrorism like Iran and the number of victims of terrorism in Iran is more than 17,000 people.

Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights emphasized that the documents and evidences of crimes committed by terrorist groups should be available to other countries and international organizations, and this is one of the important goals of the court.

February 4, 2024 0 comments

Iran

Report on the eighth session of the MEK’s trial

The eighth session of the trial of commanders of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and the group as an entity was held in Tehran. The court was chaired by Judge Dehghani in the 11th branch of the criminal court of Tehran province on Tuesday, January 30th. The court was held in two parts in the morning and in the afternoon.
Vaziri, the prosecutor’s representative read the indictments of the 90th to 105th defendants who include: Morteza Fakhar, Assadollah Faqih Dezfuli, Iraj Feiz, Parviz Karimian, Ahmad Golpaygani, Farid Mahootchi, Mehdi Madadi, Mahmood Ahmadi, Javad Ahmadi, Esmail Mortezai, Mahmood Moayeri, Roghayeh Malek Mohammadi, Hassan Nezamolmolki, Nasrin Nazari Aliabadi, Ali Hadizadeh, Allahkaram Hooshangi.

Accusations of the MEK as an entity

15 charges were read aloud to accuse the Mujahedin Khalq organization as an entity. According to the court the MEK has been the instigator of a large number of crimes that has led to intimidation, insecurity, injury and death of civilians.
The crimes have been committed by the MEK’s agents to disrupt national security of Iranians from 1979 until now inside Iran, from Iraq, France and Albania.
Instigating intelligence cooperation in organized espionage with the foreign and hostile government of the Iraqi Baath regime in order to damage national security, especially during the 8 years of war imposed by former Iraqi dictator on Iran.
According to the court, numerous organized kidnappings combined with torture, physical and mental harassment were instigated by the MEK as an entity. They include intentional destruction, setting fire on people’s property, public property, theft of public property, armed robbery of public and private properties and organized terrorist acts leading to assault and intentional killing of people, airplane hijacking, propaganda activity and publication of lies and financing of terrorism.

Maryam and Massoud Rajavi’s accusations

The accusations of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi as the second and third defendants of the trial were also read aloud for the audience. The leadership, command, planning, design, facilitating and direction of the extensive and criminal actions of the organized and coherent group, MEK.
The Rajavis’ charges include: Fighting through cooperation with the hostile foreign government (Baath regime of Iraq), commanding and participating in military-terrorist operations known as Aftab, Chelcheragh, Forough Javidan, Marwarid, cross border operations known as patrolling and clearing the way for the lives of people, intimidating them and creating insecurity in Iran, collusion and espionage against the internal and external security of the country and against people’s lives and property, including terrorist operations and organized actions for street riots…Massoud Rajavi is accused of participation in the hijacking of Boeing 707 on August 6, 1981.

101 other defendants of the court

Then the accusations of 101 accused members and commanders of the MEK were read aloud in detail. The crimes they have committed briefly include murder, robbery, torture, acts of terror, inciting riots and creating insecurity. Separate accusations were presented for Mehdi Abrishamchi, Mehdi Baraee, Farhad Olfat, Mahmood Fakharzadeh, Alireza Bahrami.

The reasons for persecution of the group and its commanders

Some of the reasons are the followings: Complaints of private complainants whose names were read in the court, reports of general and special justice officials (21 reports) focusing on the crimes committed by the MEK and its agents, confessions of the accused ones in speeches, and public and private meetings of MEK, claiming the responsibility of the crimes by the MEK, statements of other arrested defendants regarding the group and its commanders, the testimonies of the witnesses who were present at the scene of the terrorist attacks, testimonies of former members of the group…
Besides, based on the words of the representative of the prosecutor, the MEK and 104 of its commanders are now brought to justice because they started an illegitimate armed struggle against a legally established government. They killed 17 thousand of Iranian people, including children and women, and several of the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran including President Rajai and his prime minister Bahonar. Saddam Hussein sponsored the MEK financially and logistically to form its private army which was called National Liberation Army by the group.

Why the MEK is considered a terrorist group?

The prosecutor’s representative said, “Terrorist acts are realized when they are intentional and related to an individual or collective action and have the goal of severely disrupting public order by creating terror, which is realized in the context of the following crimes: Deliberate damage to the life and dignity of people, extortion, theft, torture and brutal acts, violence leading to death, amputation or permanent disability, kidnapping or imprisoning people, as well as hijacking a plane, stealing a ship or any other means of transportation, money laundering. , disabling as well as computer crimes, violation of freedom of movement, manufacturing, selling, storing, transporting or maintaining war machines, lethal and explosive weapons, any type of crime using bombs, grenades, rockets, automatic weapons, letter or explosive package under individual or collective action to cause serious disturbance of public order through terror. Financing terror acts by providing, collecting, or managing assets, cash, or providing recommendations for this purpose with the intent of acquiring these assets and cash are regarded as works of terrorist groups. All assets or a part of it are used in order to commit terrorist acts.”

According to Vaziri, significant number of armed actions of the MEK, such as mortar attacks in residential areas, an attack on the Faculty of Literature in Ahvaz, and bombing a bus in Shiraz, in public places, places of education and training of young people for launching terror acts in residential areas of civilians, as well as public vehicles that has been carried out by the group has seriously disrupted the public order, it has caused intimidation and terror and the deliberate killing of ordinary citizens of the society. Therefore, these few cases will be enough to prove the terrorist nature of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization and its commanders.

January 31, 2024 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Hanif Bali in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf

The Hanif Bali is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party and a former board member of the party whose life experience with the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) was documented by an Iranian-Swedish filmmaker in the documentary, Children of Camp Ashraf.

As one of the four case studies of Sara Moein’s new documentary, Hanif Bali arrived in Sweden when he was three years old. He spoke of his several moms in an interview with Manoto TV in 2016. “When I was told “Your mom”, I had to ask “Which mom?” because I had several moms,” he told Manoto.

He was one of the 120 children of MEK parents who were smuggled from Camp Ashraf, Iraq to Sweden. He was then moved between eight different foster families until he turned 18. He is a Swedish politician now because he is one of those few lucky MEK children who was not returned as a child soldier to Camp Ashraf to receive military training.

Hanif recounted the heartbreaking stories of his childhood as an orphan in a foreign country, in the interview. About his biological parents, he said, “Mothers were allowed to call their children only once a year. My father has called me only twice in my entire life.”

Children of Camp Ashraf narrates the story of the environmental scientist Amir, the actress Parvin, the politician Hanif and the influencer Atefeh who are four of over 700 children of MEK parents who were separated from their parents and smuggled from Iraq to Western countries under the order of the group’s leader Massoud Rajavi.

January 30, 2024 0 comments

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