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Prosecute the MEK leaders for their crimes against humanity

Mr. Karim Khan
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
The Hague – The Netherlands

Greetings,
I, Mohammad Reza Pirnazari, was confined for 10 years within the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) Camp Ashraf in Iraq, and I was under severe physical and mental pressure.
They constantly tortured me mentally, including the threat of solitary confinement and torture and execution. In large gatherings, they incited others into attacking and threatening me and putting psychological pressure on me.
As a result of the nervous tension inside the organization, I turned to sedatives and was constantly depressed until I was able to escape and return to Iran.
Now that the grounds for my complaint have been prepared, I request you to prosecute the leaders of the MEK on charges of crimes against humanity. I am ready to appear in any court with sufficient evidence to testify.

With respect,
Mohammad Reza Pirnazari
Gorgan – Golestan – Iran
Contact number: 09117939113

Mohammad Reza Pirnazari; the MEK defector

November 15, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Majid Mohammadi’s letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Mr. Karim Khan

I am Majid Mohammadi. I was captured by Iraqi forces on June 25, 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war in the Shalamcheh operational area, while I was severely wounded. Due to a shrapnel wound, part of my right leg and also the nerve of my left leg were damaged. My left eye had lost about 70% of its vision. The Iraqis tortured me for two months in the south of Basra and in Baghdad, and finally transferred me to the Ramadi prisoner of war camp. I was very weak at that time and could not walk.

In 1989, officials of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) carried out extensive propaganda in the camps of Iranian prisoners in Iraq. The organization toured to and from the camp where I was, and they took me to Camp Ashraf with deception and false promises.
On the other hand, my cousin and his wife were among the officials of the organization, who also tried to attract me. As soon as I joined the MEK, operations against the Kurds in northern Iraq began. After a while, I found a complete recovery in the organization. In those days, it seems that my cousin had distanced himself from the organization due to a dispute in the organization over the forced divorces. When he saw me once, he told me that I had no place here and asked me to write a report to my supervisor to request that I be returned to Iran. I did write a letter and submitted my request. At first, they did not answer me. After a while, I was taken to a hall and a meeting was held for me in a large gathering.

Majid Mohammadi;the MEK former member

Following the meeting, the men and women officials of the MEK expressed their condolences to me and stated that my parents had been executed by the Iranian government because of my presence in the MEK. This news was very shocking and that is why I decided to stay in MEK again and take revenge on the Iranian government. Of course, I later found out that the organization had lied to me and wanted to keep me in its cultic relations with this deception.

The MEK had banned marriage and no one had the right to marry, and Rajavi stated that no one would marry for the rest of his life. The members had no right to have a family other than the Rajavis. In the cultic relations of the organization, I could never talk to my friends, and if this was done, I would have to be sharply criticized in brainwashing meetings and collective pressure, and the criticism was always accompanied by insults and humiliation and sometimes beatings.

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, families approached to Camp Ashraf to visit their loved ones, my parents were among the families too. I was very shocked to see them and realized that the officials of the organization lied to me and I lived for many years with the grief of the execution of my parents, and this is how they wanted to keep me in the organization with this dirty trick.

I asked the officials of the MEK that they lied to me all these years and with this lie great psychological pressure was put on me. The officials had no answer and said that it must have been wrong. This deception of the MEK caused me to live under psychological pressure for nearly 13 years.
After meeting with my family, I decided to run away from the organization, but while fleeing, I was arrested, assaulted and imprisoned. They tried to force me to stay in the relationship with mental and physical pressures, but I had made my decision.

During the time I was in the relations of the MEK, I lived permanently with a big lie and they ruined my youth. How they destroyed my life, my youth and my health all these years.
I am ready to testify in every court about the crimes against humanity within the MEK, and I am one of the plaintiffs of the leaders of this organization.

Majid Mohammadi,
Pol-e Sefid – Mazandaran – Iran

November 15, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The youngest brother still hostage of the MEK

Mehdi Sarayee is one of the three brothers who were imprisoned by the Mujahedin Khalq in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. The two others, Jamshid and Ahmad Sarayee could manage to escape the group but Mehdi is still taken as a hostage in the MEK’s base in Albania, Camp Ashraf 3.
The involvement of the Sarayees with the MEK started in the late 1990s when Jamshid had moved to Turkey to find a job. The same as many other young Iranians in Turkey, Jamshid was deceived by the MEK’s famous recruiter, Ali Ankarai. The same tactic to recruit new members was practiced for Jamshid too. Ali Ankarai promised him a good job in Europe under the condition of going to Iraq and staying there for a short time.
Jamshid was taken to Camp Ashraf, in 1999. Under the MEK’s cult-like ruling, he was forced to call his brothers in Iran and to promise them a good job with a good payment in Greece. Ahmad was the second brother to fall into the fraudulent recruitment trap made by the MEK leaders.

Mehdi Sarayee

The MEK commanders repeated the similar procedure to deceive Mehdi and it worked again although Ahmad had tried to warn his mother by implicitly telling her not to let Mehdi join them. Ahmad was under the supervision by his commanders so he could not talk to his family on the phone, openly. Mehdi was the last brother to join the MEK in Camp Ashraf. He has been given a nickname by the group commanders. He is called Pooya, in the group.
After the American invasion to Iraq, in 2003, the MEK was disarmed and the US army took the control of Camp Ashraf. A temporary camp was built by the US army for those who were willing to leave the group. Eventually, Jamshid and Ahmad left the group and then returned to Iran but they Mehdi was kept under the manipulative system of the Cult of Rajavi.

Mehdi Sarayee’s late father

The Sarayees are still looking forward for the day that Mehdi call them and talk to them freely. The parents of Mehdi and their older brother Ali, took various actions in order to call on the international bodies to aid the release of Mehdi. Unfortunately, their mother and father both died before they would be able to call or see Mehdi.

Jamshid Sarayee

Jamshid and Ahmad live a normal life in their hometown Gorgan, in North of Iran. They are married and have children. Occasionally, Jamshid sends video messages and open letters to his beloved brother who is in the MEK cult and has no access to the outside world. “Dear Mehdi, our father just passed away while he was looking forward to see you,” Jamshid says in his recent video message addressing Mehdi. “We all wait for you. Here, in Iran, I have had a normal life since I left the MEK. Come on! Get back soon! we are waiting for you.”

November 15, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

MEK leaders prosecution; ex-member demands

Mr. Karim Khan
Distinguished Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Greetings and regards,
I sincerely thank and appreciate your attention to the complaints of the victims of the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) inside and outside the country.
I respectfully convey to you that I, Ali Moradi, son of Nourmorad, was subjected to the most severe mental and even medieval physical torture and exploitation within the MEK for more than 15 years, from 1989 to 2004. I was forced to work hard and exhausting, some of which I will mention in the following:

From the moment I joined the organization, very few hours were allocated for sleep and rest, and the rest of the hours were either hard work or brainwashing sessions and stress. In most mind control destructive cults, members are prevented from getting enough sleep so that they cannot think well and therefore brainwashing methods are effective.
Intensive programs of forced labor, relocation and unreasonable carrying of heavy loads, improper cleaning of the yard and other unnecessary work were performed only to exhaust the body of people so that no one could think about their situation and show feelings for their family.
I was deprived of any telephone or correspondence with my family for 15 years, and despite repeated requests, I was never allowed to contact my family.

Before joining the MEK, I was married and my wife resided inside the country, who suffered greatly from being away from me during these years. I repeatedly asked to contact my wife, but the organization forced me to divorce her. After I left the MEK and returned to Iran I found out that my wife had divorced me due to the cult’s message to her. she was remarried, which caused me a great deal of emotional trauma at that time.
I have also suffered back injuries due to the use of physical exploitation and being forced to work hard, and I am currently suffering from severe back discomfort.

In 1995, while traveling from one area to another in Iraq, where I was one of the passengers, I suddenly heard gunshots and I was shot in the knee. I am suffering from a bullet and I am not able to walk in a balanced way, and during the investigation of the incident, I realized that the bullet hit me in the knee was shot by a member of the MEK, who is currently one of their members.
The above cases have been just a small part of my mental and physical sufferings and tortures in the organization of the MEK, so I request that the crimes of the MEK against the members be investigated immediately.

Sincerely
Ali Moradi

Ali Moradi; the MEK ex-member

November 14, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

MEK former prisoner letter to the ICC prosecutor

Mr. Karim Khan
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Greetings and Regards,
I am Doust Mohammad Farahi Mahalleh Kalaei from Jouybar city in Mazandaran province in northern Iran. I joined the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in 1987 and left the organization in 1993.
During this time, the MEK officials never allowed me to contact my family, and my family never noticed my presence in the organization, thus leaving my family in complete ignorance.
In 1993, I decided to leave the MEK, but the officials of the organization imprisoned me in Camp Ashraf. I was tortured in prison, one of the torturers was named Majid Alamian. I was severely pressured and beaten in prison to dissuade me from leaving the organization. I was beaten every time I asked to leave. I was imprisoned in Ashraf for four months.

After that, when they faced my insistence, they transferred me to the Ramadi refugee camp and gave me a hundred Dinars. This was while a hundred Dinars was not worth it at all and they never thought about how I could live with this amount of money.
I stayed in the Ramadi camp for a year. During this one year, I ate food out of the garbage to stay alive and in this way I was able to survive.

Mohammad Reza Pirnazari

When the MEK officials handed me over to the security forces at Ramadi camp, they told them that I was an Iranian spy so as I was constantly beaten by them. In this way, they intended to dissuade me from my decision and bring me back to Camp Ashraf.

A year later, with the presence of the Red Cross in the camp, my name was written down and I was taken to the prison in the Iraqi city of Khanaqin. There, I was handed over to the Iraqi security forces and they left me at the Iranian border in the minefield to return to Iran. They thought that I could not cross the minefield and therefore I would return to the organization.However,thanks God I was able to cross the minefield and reached Iran safely.
I was under severe pressure in the MEK so much that they did not even allow me to tell my family about my health.

As a victim of the MEK Cult who has had the experience of the prisons and tortures of the MEK, I have complaints and I demand that the leaders of the MEK be punished for the crimes they committed. I am an eye witness, a living document of the crimes against humanity within the MEK.
I am ready to testify in any court about the torture and oppression that the MEK has imposed on me.

Doust Mohammad Farahi Mahalleh Kalaei
Jouybar – Mazandaran – Iran

November 14, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Iraj Salehi letter to Karim Asad Ahmad Khan

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

Greetings and Regards
I am Iraj Salehi, 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 involved in this cult for nearly 20 years. In this letter, I would like to let you know about some of the oppressions that the leaders of the Rajavi Cult have imposed on me personally, along with parts of the oppressions that has been inflicted on other members of this cult that I have witnessed. Hopefully, the true inhuman nature of the leaders of the MEK will be revealed to you and the International community so that the likes of Massoud Rajavi can no longer deceive teenagers and young people and ruin their lives.

In the Rajavi Cult, members do not have access to any means of communication such as telephone, post, internet, radio, television, newspapers, etc. Having a pocket radio is prohibited and carries a penalty. Our only source of access to the news was MEK TV, which was selectively broadcast to those who gathered in the public hall for lunch or supper at certain times.

In the Rajavi Cult, we were not allowed to communicate with our family or friends outside the cult. Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam had repeatedly announced this ban to us. In 2001 we were gathered in a large hall to witness the trial of a member named “Hossein Mash’ouf”. Massoud Rajavi himself tried him and Maryam accompanied him in this case. Mr. Mash’ouf’s crime was that he had noticed there was a telephone line at the place where the meeting was being held. This was while we were being told that we had no access to the telephone at all. Mr. Mash’ouf secretly went to the room where the phone was and, without informing the cult commanders, called his brother in Germany and asked him for help. Mr. Mash’ouf was charged with making a phone call to his brother. Massoud Rajavi tried him for several days in front of hundreds of members, and finally sentenced him to two years in solitary confinement and then eight years in prison in Abu Quraib.

In the Rajavi Cult, marriage,having a family and having children are forbidden. Even all the members who were married were forced to divorce their spouses on the Rajavi’s order, which is a clear example of genocide. They did not even have mercy on families who had children. At the behest of the organization, all children were forcibly deported from Iraq to other countries and sold to families in order to prevent the children from reconnecting with their parents. The sad story of these children and the crimes committed against them is a separate issue.
The Rajavis later transferred some of these children back to Iraq as teenagers with the trick of visiting family. These children were abused as soldiers in Iraq while they were under 18 years old. Some of these teenagers, such as Alan Mohammadi, who could not bear the horrible pressures of this cult, committed suicide in the camp. Yaser Akbari Nasab set himself on fire.

Recently, one of these children named “Amin Golmarymi” shared his story with “De Zeit” weekly magazine in Germany. Before him, several other children, such as Amir Yaghmaee, had recounted the inhumane acts of Rajavis and the bitter story they were caught in.

Sincerely,
Iraj Salehi, a surviving member of the Rajavi Cult

Iraj Salehi; MEK ex-member

November 13, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Former POW pens letter to the ICC prosecutor

Mr.karim Assad khan
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Your Excellency,
My name is Gholam Ali Mirzaei. As a military soldier I was imprisoned by the Iraqi forces at the very beginning of the 1990s Iran-Iraq war.
I was subjected to severe tortures in Saddam’s POW camps for nearly ten years and I resided there in The worst human conditions.

In 1998 when a ceasefire was established between two countries, the MEK with the cooperation of the Iraqi government entered the POW camps and deceived a large number of Iranian POWs through propaganda and false promises. We were all unaware about our countries conditions as well as that of our families. We did know nothing about the Mujahedin. They transferred us to Camp Ashraf. shortly after, we realized the bizarre conditions inside the group.The group leaders abused members ranging from detention and persecution of those wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings, and torture.

Your Excellency,
Leaders of the MEK make efforts to manipulate the minds of their followers; they try to form the members’ minds as robots with Artificial Intelligence.our conditions got worse within the MEK camps.
I ask you to expedite the case of the MEK leaders.

Sincerely,
Gholam Ali Mirzaei,
MEK former member

Gholam Ali Mirzaei

November 11, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Son to his father hostage of MEK: We are ready to receive you any time!

The family of Massoud Toosi are looking forward for his return after 33 years. Massoud Toosi Bakhsh was married and had two sons when he was taken as war prisoner by the Iraqi forces in Iran-Iraq war, in 1988. He was soon taken to the headquarters of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MEK) in Iraq, Camp Ashraf. The MEK was an Iranian rebel movement sheltered and funded by Saddam Hussein as his private army.
The war ended; the POWs were exchanged between the two countries in 1989 but Massoud Toosi did not return home. He has been under the cult-like control of the MEK until today, as well as thousands of other MEK members.

Massoud Toosi Bakhsh wife and his sons

Milad and Mehran are the sons of Massoud. They have not been able to write to, call or meet their father in all these years. They were grown up by their mother who was actually become single by Massoud Rajavi who ordered members to divorce their spouses in reality and in their minds.

Massoud Toosi’s wife, Mahrokh Rabbani and her sons traveled to Iraq several times to meet him. They picketed behind the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty. They were never allowed to visit Massoud. They were even insulted by the group agents.
“Behind the walls of Camp Ashraf I shouted, ‘I am Mahrokh Rabani the wife of Massoud Toosi or as Mr. Rajavi says I am his sister!’” Mahrokh said in an interview with Nejat Society. “I said, ‘I am here. Come out to see me and you sons whom you loved a lot.’ “
Massoud Toosi was not allowed by the MEK leaders to contact his family. Moreover, the MEK propaganda website published an article allegedly signed by him in which he accused his family of being agents of the Iranian intelligence ministry and want to kill MEK members.

Massoud Toosi Bakhsh family at Nejat society office

Following the publication of such an article, certain former members of the group revealed that Massoud Toosi had never such a personality to write an article with such a literature. Defector, Hadi Shabani, notified that Massoud must have been under pressure by the group authorities to write the article. “We know well that you have issues with the Cult of Rajavi and you miss your sons so much,” Shabani addresses his ex-comrade. Ali Pourahmad, another former member of the MEK also writes, “I worked with Massoud Toosi in a unit. I remember that he had missed his sons very much, he did not want me to see his tears when he was talking about his sons.”

Nevertheless, Milad, Mehran and their mother did not stop taking actions in order to find a way to contact Massoud. In October, 2011, Milad who was only two years old when his father left home, published an open letter to his beloved father asking him to leave the MEK and get back to the family. Expressing his sufferings during the years of separation from his father he announced that he and his brother, Mehran would marry in that proper month. “Daddy! every one is waiting for you here”, Milad wrote. “I am looking forward for the ending of this separation. Dad! Mehran and I are going to get married on October, 20, 2011. I’d really like that you could join us for our wedding party.”

Mahrokh, Mehran and Milad are still suffering the long separation. In their recent video message, Mehran speaks to his father: “What have you done in all these thirty and some years? We are your family. What did you do for us? We are ready to receive you any time. We will support you if you get back.”

November 10, 2021 0 comments

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.

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November 9, 2021 0 comments

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