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ICC prosecutor is invited to travel to Iran and observe the sufferings of the MEK plaintiffs

Mr. Karim Khan,
The Attorney General of the International Court of Justice
Dear Sir,

I am Samad Eskandari. I am honored to introduce myself as the legal representative of the plaintiffs in Iran. In order to hear the testimonies of the witnesses and the plaintiffs of the lawsuit filed against the leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq, I invite you to travel to our spectacular Iran to observe the sufferings of the plaintiffs and the families whose children are still taken as prisoners by the MEK.
We would be grateful if you could accept this humble invitation. The legal process of your trip will be followed through official channels. I am looking forward for your early response and I hope that you will accept my invitation.

Sincerely,
Samad Eskandari,
The representative of the plaintiffs in the case of the MEK cult

Samad Eskandari, former member of the MEK

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

To the Stockholm court: provide an opportunity to hear our testimonies

Honorable Judge of the Stockholm Court,
I am Zahra Gholizadeh from the province of Gilan in Iran. I am the sister of Ali Gholizadeh, captured in the camp of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania. I am writing to you on behalf of my father and my family.

I was informed that the Stockholm Court, which has been set up to inspect the facts and investigate human rights violations, has been transferred to the Durres area of Albania so that the members of the MEK, who are detained in the organization’s camp, can also testify.
I am glad that a trial has taken place in Sweden on the subject of human rights and of clarification of the truth, but it should be noted that the truth has various dimensions that needs to be examined from all angles in order to be fully clarified.

I request that my complaint and that of the other families of the members of the MEK be considered and that an opportunity be provided to hear our testimony. We, the families, as well as the members of the Rajavi Cult, are all victims of this cult and part of the reality that needs to be clarified.
Recently, 42 former members filed a lawsuit against the leaders of the MEK in the International Court of Justice in Tehran, and a final verdict was issued. All the documents were handed over to the Secretariat of the International Criminal Court in The Hague for consideration and action by Mr. Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Many families and former members also sent letters to Karim Khan, complaining against the leaders of the MEK about crimes against humanity and violations of the basic human rights of members, including preventing them from leaving or marrying and starting a family, as well as preventing them from any contact with the outside world, especially family and friends.
My brother was a prisoner of war in the hands of Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq war. He had gone to the fronts to defend the borders of his country. The MEK, in collaboration with Saddam Hussein, deceived and recruited him in a prison camp in Iraq with false promises.

My brother has no rights in this cult. He lost his life and youth and all his beautiful dreams. For almost thirty-five years now, he has not had a single phone call or a letter to his family. My brother is even deprived of the rights of a dangerous prisoner anywhere in the world.
I ask you to listen to the mass complaints of families and former members against the leaders of this organization during this trial, in which witnesses from the terrorist MEK cult have also participated. The leaders of the MEK must also be tried in an international court to answer for the crimes committed against their members and their families.
We are ready to appear wherever necessary to file a complaint or testify.

Regards,

Zahra Gholizadeh
Gilan – Iran

Zahra Gholizadeh – Ali Gholizadeh sister

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Former members of the MEK

Hadi Shabani’s letter to the ICC Prosecutor

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

I am Hadi Shabani, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult). I was a member of the group for nearly two decades. (From 1985 to 2004)
I was shot in the abdomen in an operation called Forough-e Javidan, which was carried out by the MEK forces in cooperation with Saddam Hussein’s forces against the defenders of our homeland Iran. I regained my health after nearly three years; however, I still feel severe pain in the abdomen constantly.

The leaders of the MEK didn’t allow me to call my family and inform them of my health since I joined the organization in 1985. I was not even allowed to listen to the radio in the organization.
In 1988, a few months after Operation Forough-e Javidan, I witnessed that all men and women who were married were forced to divorce, and I, who was single, was not allowed to marry like other people. Massoud Rajavi stated in public meetings that marriage was forbidden for all members of the organization for the rest of their lives. The only one who had wife and family was Massoud Rajavi himself.
According to the doctrine of the MEK’s internal ideological revolution which was initiated by Massoud Rajavi, all women are married to him, and in this way he built a harem for himself while forbidding other men from even talking to their own wives.

Regarding psychological pressures, I must say that in the MEK, by conducting daily and weekly brainwashing sessions, which in cultic culture is known as “peer pressure”, they put pressure on everyone, and I, like everyone else, was under this organizational pressure. That is, there was a constant torture and repression in the relationship and no one dared to protest.
Massoud Rajavi constantly stated in public meetings that the members should forget about their family and no one should even think about them. We had to participate to daily and weekly sessions of confessions and declare all our thoughts and dreams in front of other members. The confessions were followed up by blame and psychological and physical punishments.

While the most dangerous prisoners anywhere in the world have the right to visit their next-of-kin, in the Rajavi Cult there was no right of communication with the family.
When I escaped from the MEK and went to the camp of the American forces called TIPF, I did not even have clothes to wear and the officials of the organization did not give me clothes and I spent a long time in TIPF without clothes. This was while I had spent all my youth in the MEK relations. I did not receive any money for years of hard work.
As a victim of the MEK, who lost his youth in the organization’s relations, I complain against the leaders of this organization. As a mind control destructive cult, the organization continues to perpetuate modern slavery and brainwashing members in Albania. I ask you to prosecute the leaders of this cult. I am ready to testify wherever necessary.

Hadi Shabani
Former member of the MEK
Sari – Mazandaran – Iran

Hadi Shabani

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Former members of the MEK

Shir Ahmad Rouzrokh pens letter to the ICC Prosecutor

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
The Hague

Dear Mr. Karim Khan,
I am Shir-Ahmad Rouzrokh, a resident of Golestan province in Iran, who was detained by the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in the Ashraf garrison in Iraq for 27 years.
I was first captured by Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq war. Due to the severe physical torture in the POW camp in Iraq and the harsh conditions there, I was deceived by the false promises of the MEK that came to the camp.
During nearly three decades that I was imprisoned by the MEK, I was subjected to severe mental and even physical torture by them. I was forced to do unpaid heavy physical work there, so now I have a blood clotting disease, which, according to the doctor, is due to the hard and exhausting work that I was forced to do at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

Mr. Prosecutor
Now that there is an opportunity to handle the complaints, I would like to complain about the leaders of the MEK because of the mental and physical pressures as well as the irreparable physical injuries. I am ready to file a complaint am ready to testify in any court.

Thanks,
Shir-Ahmad Rouzrokh
Golestan – Iran

Shir Ahmad Rouzrokh; the MEK former member

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Former members of the MEK

Hamid Dehdar Hassani’s letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Dear Mr. Karim Asad Khan
Distinguished Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

I am Hamid Dehdar Hassani, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult). I was present at the headquarters of this organization called Ashraf Camp in Iraq from 1987 to 2002. As you know, 42 of my friends who spent years of their lives in the MEK, recently filed a lawsuit against the leaders of the MEK on behalf of other former members in Branch 55 of the Tehran International Court of Justice. Finally, after the necessary investigations, a final verdict was issued condemning the leaders of the MEK. The case and the related documents were delivered to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague on 5 June 2021 for your consideration and follow-up. I am ready to testify in any international court in this regard.

Your Excellency,
As an eyewitness who has spent 15 years of his life in the MEK, I am ready to bring to you examples of crimes that the leaders of the MEK have committed and still commit against their members over the years:

1. All members of the MEK are deprived of their basic human rights, including the right to contact the family and friends, the right to marry and to form a family, as declared in the UN Charter of Human Rights.
2- Unpaid forced labor is continuously and extensively carried out by the MEK officials.
3- Those who wanted to leave the MEK were reprimanded by the leaders and subjected to the most severe mental and even physical pressures, and were eventually sent to solitary confinement in Camp Ashraf or to Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. I am a clear example of the fact that in 2001, when I asked to leave the MEK in order to pursue my life, the authorities sent me to solitary confinement after exerting severe pressure, and sometime later sent me to Abu Ghuraib prison.
4- I know many people in the MEK who committed suicide and self-immolation as a result of being subjected to psychological torture by the MEK leaders.
5- There is no freedom of expression and freedom of opinion in the MEK. Any expression of opposition to the orders of the organization has been and is prohibited.
6- In 2011, after forced divorces, the MEK officials forcibly separated hundreds of children from their parents in Camp Ashraf and displaced them in European and American countries. Parents never had the right to question about the fate of their children.

Dear Prosecutor,
I have hundreds of other examples of the atrocities and crimes that the MEK has committed against its members over the years. As a victim of the MEK, I urge you to prioritize the file of 42 former members against the leaders of the MEK. In the hope that justice will be done.

Thank You,
Hamid Dehdar Hassani
Ahvaz – Khuzestan – Iran

Hamid Dehdar Hassani

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Former members of the MEK

Asghar Rezaei Mehrabadi’s letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Dear Mr. Karim Khan
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

I am Abolqasem Rezaei Mehrabadi, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) and one of the plaintiffs against the leaders of this organization.
I was a soldier who was captured by the MEK forces during the Iran-Iraq war. I spent about seven years of my life in the captivity of this organization. There were many people like me who were captured by the MEK during the war. We were expected to be treated according to the Geneva Convention and the rules of the International Committee of the Red Cross, but this was never the case.

During the few years that I was in the captivity of the MEK, I endured all kinds of psychological and even physical pressures along with heavy and exhausting forced labor, which still does not leave me in the form of nightmares after many years.

During this time of captivity, our bodies as well as our minds were captive. The organization always put us under the most intense brainwashing and mind control processes by holding numerous psychological sessions.
We had to work from the first hours of the day until late at night, which was part of our daily routine. After that, in a state of extreme fatigue, we had to attend confessions and self-criticism sessions and psychological pressures.

All around the headquarters of the MEK, they surrounded the embankment with barbed wire. Camp Ashraf was surrounded by high fences, and the tops of the fences were closed not to the outside but to the inside with barbed wire so that no one could escape from inside. The guards were even ordered to arrest anyone who approached the fence from inside, and to shoot if he did not pay attention. We were a number of friends who were captured together, but even though we were in the same camp, we were never allowed to meet.

For the entire seven years that I was in captivity, my family was completely unaware of my condition and had no knowledge of my fate. Regulations imposed at Camp Ashraf are not enforced anywhere else in the world, not even in the most dreadful prisons. Having any contact with our families were forbidden. Even requesting for contact had dire consequences.
Married members were forced to divorce, and many children were separated from their parents and sent to European and American countries, the fate of some of whom is unknown.

Mr. Karim Khan,
These few lines do not describe all the hardships and sufferings I endured. Please consider these cases in the investigation of the crimes of the leaders of the MEK so that it leads to a fair result and the facts become clear to everyone.

Thank you for your attention
Asghar Rezaei Mehrabadi
Surviving member of the Rajavi Cult

Asghar Rezaei Mehrabadi; the MEK former member

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The ailing mother of Morteza Ghadimi wrote letter to Karim Asad Khan

Mr. Karim Khan,
The Attorney General of the International Court of Justice

Hello and thank you,

I am Fatemeh Peykani, the mother of Morteza Ghadimi. Morteza has been a prisoner of the anti-humanitarian cult of the Mojahedin for nearly 35 years and has been severely brainwashed in the camp of Maryam Rajavi in Albania. You must have experienced fatherhood and you know how hard and heart-breaking the grief of being away from a child is. For exactly 35 years, the Mojahedin have not allowed me, as a sick mother, to hear my son’s voice. You have a difficult and at the same time valuable responsibility, because you hear the voices of the plaintiffs of the case and you can be the executor of justice in the world that history will never forget.

Thanks,
Fatemeh Peykani
Iran – Zanjan

Morteza Ghadimi Mother

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mohammadi Kamyab family wrote letter to the ICC prosecutor

To Mr. Karim Khan,
The Honorable Prosecutor of the International Court of Justice in The Hague

Dear Sir,
I respectfully state that my son Asghar Mohammadi Kamyab has been undergoing the most severe brainwashing process by the Mojahedin for more than 35 years. He is currently in the group’s camp in Albania. Maryam Rajavi claims that she advocates for freedom, democracy and human rights. My son and other members of the Cult of Rajavi are deprived of contacting the free world, and everyone is deprived of the right to marry and have children. As a father, I ask you if the actions of the Mojahedin leaders are not considered as violation of human rights and genocide, please explain to me what these inhumane actions mean in the logic of humanity! You are expected to question this inhuman cult for what it committed against our children.

Yours Sincerely,
Mohammadi Kamyab family
Zanjan, Iran

Mohammadi Kamyab family

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Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 300

++ The MEK is on overdrive to claim victory in the Swedish court case. This does not mean that the court has issued a verdict, we are months if not years away from that. No, they say that they are now the only witnesses in the court case. Indeed this is true, because Mesdaghi and his gang, who originally brought the case, have now disappeared. Whoever is paying for this court case has decided to support the MEK rather than both. As they say in Farsi – two Darvish can sleep on one rug, but two kings cannot live in one kingdom. Commentators say that ‘at least Mesdaghi has kept his dignity!’

++ More on the Swedish court in Albania. Commentators ask why the court has gone to Albania to take witness testimony? Why didn’t they send the witnesses to Sweden? Some say that it is clear: if they get to Sweden they will run away and claim asylum there. Many know these people from MEK. They explain: they have been killing and begging, but they have done so as Gladiators, forced to do this by Rajavi. If they have the chance, they will not go back to Albania. Maryam Rajavi has to keep them captive there. Others comment that even though the judge could arrange visas for them to travel to Sweden, he knows they are fine to be used in Albania, but like dogs, should be kept in a kennel at the end of the garden. For the same reason, they don’t allow Maryam Rajavi out of Albania to visit the US, EU or UK. They will use her but not bring her inside the house.

++ Other commentators go into detail about the witnesses in the Swedish court case. One such witness is Mahnaz Meimanat, head of Maryam Rajavi’s office and a commander in Saddam’s Private Army. The MEK have published her mother’s picture as though she has been executed by Iran. But in the MEK’s Farsi archives, we discover that MEK have published a memoir about her as the oldest woman who was martyred in the failed Forough Javidan (Eternal Light) operation in 1988. In this sense it was Rajavi who killed this old woman, since she had no idea about war or fighting, and was actually taking watermelons to the front line for refreshment when she was killed. Some commentators say that there were many people like her, young kids and others brought to Iraq from abroad who were sent to get killed in Forough and later had their names published by MEK as though they had been executed. Any decent court would prosecute Rajavi for killing them rather than blaming Iran. Commentators say it is a ridiculous court in which the judge accepts testimony from people with these pasts: people who have never worked a day in their lives, or paid taxes, people who have killed, and proved daily that they go into the streets and lie to beg for money to give to Rajavi [Iran Aid charity collections], people who have had their suicide operative pledge published. The conclusion of all these ridiculous things is that this is not a court about justice, this is a reflection of the anger felt by Mossad and the US against Iranians. They want to punish the Iranian people for voting for Raisi. In fact, this court case is all about Raisi. This aligns with all the other issues that have arisen since his election. Suddenly Pence and Pompeo coming out in support of MEK for example. The anger is that not only was he elected, but that he might actually come to a deal in Vienna over the JCPOA. The Neocons and Israel and Saudis have reacted and want to derail this.

++ Abdul Karim Ebrahimi has published a lengthy piece about his own and others’ memories which they have published about how Massoud and Maryam Rajavi forced them to commit and live with horrible activities while in the MEK. For example, one woman who has escaped MEK tells how the MEK used her mother – who was executed – to kill people. She says ‘I knew my mother was not a murderer and that MEK made her do this. I was brought up with them and had nowhere else to go. They used to say my Mum was executed as a human rights activist but in fact her crime was that she had killed Iranian people My Dad was a torturer in Rajavi and Saddam’s prisons. I was brought up in this environment and had to live with these things. I was even sent to Forough Javidan as a child and had no say in this. If these are not crimes against humanity and war crimes then what is, and why are they [MEK] not in court?’ Ebrahimi concludes that Raisi’s election really hurt the anti-Iran coalition. Their Farsi outlets have been vigorously against Raisi since his election. Some commentators add that while we understand the Israeli ‘Manoto’ and Saudi ‘Iran International’ outlets are really hurt by the election in Iran, we don’t understand why VOA – which is paid for by the State Department under the Biden administration – is also on overdrive promoting the MEK in the hope Raisi’s government will stop talking and abandon the JCPOA. Whoever is in charge in the US, they conclude, it is not Joe Biden.

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++ Nejat Society published the second part of its series Nine Women Under the Rule of Massoud Rajavi. In this part, Maryam Sanjabi who escaped the MEK’s notorious base, Camp Ashraf, in Iraq in 2011, recounts the stories of five more of these women under the abusive ruling of the MEK authorities.

++ Anne Khodabandeh wrote ‘Maryam Rajavi Enemy of Diplomacy’ to highlight Rajavi’s real agenda among all the anti-Iranian activities and propaganda. “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.”

++ Nejat Society reports on a petition signed by 1,700 families of the MEK members held captive in the MEK camp in Albania. The petition is addressed to Karim A A Khan QC, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. It calls on the ICC to prosecute 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.”

++ Press TV reports: “A senior official of Iran’s Judiciary has slammed Western countries for adopting a “selective” approach to human rights by allowing the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist organization to hold “ridiculous” meetings on the issue.
“Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs and secretary of the country’s High Council for Human Rights, made the remarks on Saturday, two days after the MKO ringleader delivered an online address to an Italian Senate panel.
“Gharibabadi strongly condemned the session, calling on the Italian government and Senate to end their “dual and destructive policies” towards terrorism and human rights.”

++ Mehr News reported that the “Secretary of Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council Kazem Gharibabadi has lambasted the European countries for supporting the MKO as well as siding with the US sanctions against Tehran while claiming to be HR defenders… in an apparent reference to gatherings in European countries and the United States organized by the MKO terrorist organization which are usually attended by the hawkish US politicians, Gharibabadi lambasted the Western countries for their double standards regarding human rights. He pointed out that while the Western governments sponsor the atrocities committed by the MKO Iranian innocent Iranians, they make claims on the human rights situation in Iran.”

Nov 12, 2021

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Former members of the MEK

Foad Basri’s letter to the ICC prosecutor

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Dear Mr. Karim Asad Khan,

I, Foad Basri, was involved in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) for nearly 20 years. The MEK is a violent and closed cult. I was deprived of the most basic human rights in this cult.
When I was in the MEK, I repeatedly asked to be allowed to leave the organization and pursue my own life. However, they did not agree and imprisoned, tortured, and threatened me to death. During all these years the MEK did not allow me to have any contact with my family.
When American forces invaded Iraq and Saddam Hussein was overthrown, I was able to escape and rescue myself. When I returned to Iran, I did not find my family. It was very hard for me and it bothered me for years.
While in Iraq, the MEK committed many crimes against its members in a garrison called Camp Ashraf. The organization imprisoned, tortured, and even executed its members.

Your Excellency,

I have complaints against the criminal leaders of the MEK. They tortured me mentally and physically and brainwashed me. They took away the best years of my youth. I ask you to follow up on my complaint. I hope that with your help, the leaders of the MEK will be tried in an international court in the near future.

Sincerely,
Foad Basri
Arak – Iran

Foad Basri

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