Letters

Let Ayoub Lorestani’s lawyer contact him at Camp Liberty

The family of Ayoub Lorestani; Camp Liberty resident wrote an open letter to Maryam Rajavi.

The Soltani family are worried about the fate of their beloved son.

Some parts of the letter reads:

" Ms. Maryam Rajavi

We are the family members of “Ayoub Lorestani” who resides in Camp Liberty. We are very worried about his life. 14 years ago Ayoub left Iran to Turkey. His plan was to go to Europe from Turkey; however he met some members of the MKO and was transferred to Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

During all these years we were happy we could occasionally hear his voice. But during the last two years we have had no news of him. We just hear the news of Camp Liberty rocket attack. Do you really reward your worriers’ families in this way?

Our demand is to be sure of Ayoub’s welfare. We want him to be transferred to a safe country.

Even though we keep track on Ayoub’s transfer to a third country via a lawyer in Australia and the UNHCR has accepted to cooperate on the issue, the Mujahedin-e Khalq are not cooperative.

During these two years we have several times contacted the MKO officials; however they do not reply us. .. ….. Do the MKO members’ families deserve such behaviors?!…

Since all our efforts have remained fruitless, we wrote this letter to ask you accelerate the transfer of Ayoub to Albania or any other safe country. Or let Ayoub’s lawyer contact him and persuade his move."

Masoumeh Lorestani,14 December 2015

“Campaign for Camp Liberty residents’ quick transfer to third country” published the letter in Persian.

December 22, 2015 0 comments

Families of Camp Liberty residents ask Ban Ki-Moon for help

Dear Mr. Ban ki-moon, Secretary- General of the United Nations:

In 1984 my brother Morteza Akbarinasab along with his family (his wife and his three 2-5 years old children) left Iran towards MKO in Kurdistan of Iran & Iraq in order to have more freedom. Immediately after lodgment in MKO sectarian headquarters, he was divested of his power and this weak point caused that his 24 years old wife, named Khadijeh Nhknam who was apolitical and almost illiterate to be at MKO disposal until they abused her as a fighter in forooghe Javidan ( Eternal Light) operations in July ,1988 and was died.

His older son Yaser Akbarinasab who was in a camp in Germany and under the patronage of MKO leaders, before coming of age was promised to meet his father in Iraq, so was persuaded to return to Iraq, but they did not permitted him to return to Germany. Following several years of protests, he was considered as an undesirable person and in 2006 they pretended that he has set himself on fire and was killed. They did not permit our reliable physicians to dissect him and was buried in the same camp.

As I said and as far information that both of you and I have about sectarian and authoritarian groups like MKO and Iraq conditions, potential risk that sometimes turns to actually threatens the life of my severely oppressed brother.

In short I can say that:

1- My brother like other residents of liberty is not permitted to contact with his family- even through correspondence- and therefore he is divested of his powers that has no choice other than inhabitancy in insecure Liberty camp and under the pressure of MKO.

2- Massoud Rajavi by his regular brainwashing has succeeded that over last thirty years to abuse these individuals and caused that they become hearth less and unfeeling. He knows that their meeting with their family is a danger for them, and this prevention does not correspond with any of the legal and human standards and is considered as genocide!

3- I personally protest that why governments and the international and human rights organizations do not eliminate opinionated MKO.

4- To compensate these harms and to observe families, and residents, human rights that I name them absolute captured, it is necessary that the doors of liberty camp be open until sympathetic families cam meet their loved ones freely and in presence of UN representative.

Respectfully

Reza Akbarinasab

Tabriz- Iran – 09.Dec.2015

Awwa Asssociation and Faragh NGO,

December 13, 2015 0 comments

The ailing parents yearn to visit their daughter who is captivated at Camp Liberty

Open letter to the UN Secretary General;Ban Ki-moon

Dear Secretary-General,

Respectfully, I would like to introduce myself, Abbas Fanoudi, as the father of Zahra Fanoudi who has been caught by MEK together with her husband, Mohammad Reza Hussein Nejad, in 2001; she has been jailed at Camp Ashraf since then. They were deprived of contacting or making any phone call to her family, and now her husband is transferred to Albany. They were kept away from each other since then without even being able to hear about each other. My daughter is currently at Camp Liberty, and we do not have any news of her health condition. The heads of the organization do not allow us to meet our daughter and have always frightened her by deception and intimidation. I, as a father, have been away from and unaware of my daughter’s condition. However, due to the declining health and the old age of my wife and I, we are impatiently awaiting the slightest news about her health or meeting her wheresoever away from dictatorial atmosphere of the organization.

I, hereby, beg to ask you and all competent authorities and officials to give due consideration to my request and also to thousands of other families’ letters to provide us with an opportunity to meet our children. Although many such letters and demands are sent to human rights bodies so far, neither any response nor any action has happened. I am not in the position to remind you of your duty as a responsible authority for thousands of families waiting to hear about their children and also against a terrorist group. Concerning the current chaotic condition in Iraq, the lack of security in the region, the recent bombing of Camp Liberty, and also the risks threatening our children’s lives, we fiercely demand the end of their stay in that country and their freedom from deception and dictatorship of the notorious People’s Mojahedin Organization (MEK).

I beg you to read this letter through the eyes of old parents missing their child, and take positive measures to take out our worries.

Many thanks and regards,

Abbas Fanoudi,Zahra Fanoudi’s father

Faragh Association

c.c:

– John Kerry, Secretary of State of America

– Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

– Flavia Pansieri, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

– Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nation

– Jane Holl Lute, Special Representative of UNHCR in Iraq

December 8, 2015 0 comments

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

MKO imprisoned us and didn’t let us meet our brothers

UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Baghdad

Dear Sir,

I, Mahmonir Iranpour, am writing to you about my brothers, Ahmadreza and Mohammadreza Iranpour, who left Iran aiming to reach Turkey and then Canada or one of the European countries in December 2002 hoping to create a better future there. Unfortunately, on their way to Europe, in Turkey, they were caught by People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MKO) and then were taken to Camp Ashraf. For a long time, we were totally unaware of them until we were informed about their condition through those who had managed to flee from Camp Ashraf. Finally, for the first time, in January 2004, we went to Iraq and Camp Ashraf and succeeded in meeting them. However, we were not allowed to visit them privately in such a way that about 20 MKO members accompanied us stopping us from contacting them personally and privately. Also, they told us that we could stay there for some nights providing no other family members were with us. Afterwards, in March 2004, we revisited Camp Ashraf with three other families. This time, not only didn’t they let us meet our brothers, but they also imprisoned and investigated us. Although a number of children and elderly people were accompanying us, they deprived us of any food for a night and then in the morning they beat and expelled us from Camp Ashraf. Afterwards, we wrote to an American commander, who was there, and sued them for what they did to us. Also, after returning back to Iran, we wrote to Human Rights Watch and complained about what they had done. At the same time when Human Rights Watch was addressing our proceedings and they were condemned, we received an Email inviting us to Camp Ashraf in November 2004 saying that this time we would be allowed to meet them provided that we were alone and no family accompany us. Having been unaware of the situation that they had been investigated by Human Rights Watch for what they had done, we went to Camp Ashraf being incognizant of their conspiracy. We and my brothers, who were dressed up formally, stayed there and were filmed. After returning to Iran, we had a telephone contact with Human Rights Watch representative in London named Doroodi, who told us that we lay and that we both had met our brothers and had taken photographs with them in Camp Ashraf. They deceived us by taking photos pretending that we had met our brothers using these photos against us in Human Rights Watch proceedings. Now, according to your sound judgment, are they liars and fraudulent or us??

Why were deprived of meeting with our dear ones while it is a basis right and one of the elements of human rights? Our brothers are kept in Camp Liberty which is a very small place surrounded by barbed wire and concrete walls. They are physically and mentally trapped by Rajavi sect. you know that you are sometimes attacked by these people. We fear that our brothers may get hurt and we are for a long time unaware of their condition. I hereby should remind you of binding protocols approved in United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees committee as regards the fact that refugees are entitled to choose their destination, education, contact with their relatives. Here is the question, why we are deprived of these rights and why this commissioner, as protector of refugees’ and our rights, evade their duty and deprive us of our basic rights?

I have repetitively asked for visiting both through Email or telephone contact. But, every time what I receive says that MKO members don’t allow any chance of visiting our brothers. Here is the question, generally wherever a group of people are under control of a commissioner, they should abide by the commissioner orders. Your responses in this regard are not acceptable. Unfortunately, it seems that instead of employing international regulations as regards defending refugees’ and their families’ rights, the commissioner acts against United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees committee decisions which is detrimental to those imprisoned in Camp Liberty. It is our right to meet our brothers and we expect you to defend this right, not to deprive us of it.

Finally, I suggest that you read protocols approved by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees committee. Also, since I see myself entitled to these rights, I ask you to provide me with an opportunity to be able to meet my brothers.

Truly yours,

Mahmonir Iranpour, sister of Ahmadreza and Mohammadreza Iranpour, who are kept in Camp Ashraf

Desember5, 2015

Shiraz- Iran,Tel: 00989173035585

December 6, 2015 0 comments

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Open letter to UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees,

We, the under signed former members of Mujahedeen Khalgh (OMPI) who are currently residing in Europe wish to share our concerns about the violation of the protected person’s rights with you.

As individuals with years of knowledge and experience about the oppressive means of this organization’s leadership, we are writing to you to draw your attention to the situation of those members still kept at Camp Liberty in Baghdad. Once again, in the past few days, the leadership used illogical and baseless excuses to prevent the meeting of those concerned families who came to the gates of Camp Liberty hoping to meet with their loved ones after, in cases, many decades. Unfortunately, they were denied any contact with their family members.

Many of us have been in this organization, before being able to find a way out of it, for decades. We are fully aware of the brainwashing and intimidation activities that take place at every level with the single aim of isolating the members from the outside world and feeding them false information and targeted propaganda to turn them against their own families.

Based on our personal experience, we assure you that if you facilitate the meeting of the members with their families in a protected and private space, without the presence of their superiors, they will find the courage to express their true desire that is to join their families and relocate from Iraq.

In our many years as part of this organization we have never witnessed any election or another means of member participation in the process of decision making or appointments. Ordinary members are not in the position of sharing their opinions or being involved in any decision, even about their own situation. In this organization, no one dares to express his/her true opinion and those who pretend to represent members are actually appointed by the leadership and their role is to pass the leadership’s agenda as the will of the members to you or any other authorities.

Considering all the facts and the grim condition of the Camp and its residents, we urge you to contact each individual personally oppose to listening to their so called “representatives”. It is the basic right of every citizen in a free society, even in prisons, and should not be denied to these individuals kept under UNHCR’s care.

The situation in Camp Liberty is not safe or sustainable. We urge you to stop talking to those who have taken these individuals hostage for so long and recognize the rights of these individuals in making their own decisions apart from the negative propaganda and intimidation of the leadership.

It is critical that UNHCR acts immediately before another catastrophic attack takes more lives.

Respectfully,

Faryad Azadi Association

Peyvand Rahaee Association

Yaran iran Association

December 1, 2015 0 comments

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Letter to the UNHCR

The following letter was sent to the UNHCR on behalf of the suffering families of the residents of Camp Liberty:

The UNHCR – Baghdad

Dear Sir or Madam,

With kind regards, we have been inundated by calls in the past couple of weeks by the families of the residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq who wish to learn about their loved ones trapped in the Rajavi Cult known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, MeK, NCRI, NLA, PMOI).

In this letter we as their representative wish to state that considering:

1. The UNHCR is directly and solely responsible for Camp Liberty and its residents and the Camp is managed and run by the UNHCR;

2. The UNHCR is obliged to be in contact with the refugees inside the camp directly with no proxy in between, and that dealing them as a group with contacting only with the leaders is against your own regulations and obligations;

3. Iraq and Camp Liberty is by no means a safe place for the residents according to past experiences over time;

Therefore, we wish to ask you why:

1. The families are not allowed to visit or be in contact with their loved ones inside the Camp?

2. The UNHCR yields to the demands of the cult leader Massoud Rajavi all the time?

3. The entire residents have not been moved to a safe place yet more than 12 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein?

We on behalf of the families are anxiously looking forward to receiving your reply as soon as possible.

Yours Sincerely,

Sahar Family Foundation

Translated by Nejat Society,

November 21, 2015 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Nejat Society letter to ICRC

The office of International Committee of Red Cross in Tehran

Mr. President,

We are members of Nejat Society Tehran Office.

The deadly missile attack on the camp of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization in Iraq ended with the killing and injury of several residents of Camp Liberty.

Families of Liberty residents are extremely worried about their loved ones in the Camp, especially because the leaders of the MKO have not published the name of wounded ones, yet.

The honorable President of ICRC in Tehran,

We urge you to take proper actions in order to probe the true demands of suffering parents who are awaiting the release of their loved ones, in accordance with the international laws.

The followings are pleas of families of the residents of Camp Liberty:

We demand to visit ICRC authorities in Tehran Office.
We demand you to provide us with possibilities to contact our children via phone calls or letters.
We ask for permission for our presence in front of camp Liberty so as to visit our children
We ask you to call on the UN secretary general in order to facilitate the process of relocation of Liberty residents in third countries.

Your cooperation and understanding on this case will be greatly appreciated.

Yours Sincerely,

Nejat Society, Tehran

info@nejatngo.org

November 17, 2015 0 comments

France

Open letter to Isabelle Mézières, mayor of Auvers Sure Oise

Greetings to you Mrs.Isabelle MEZIERES , the mayor of Auver Sur Oise Respectfully ,

I am Mrs. Zahra MOEINI who has the years of experience of being a member in Mojahedin Organization under the leadership of Massoud and Maryam RAJAVI . I lost my health and physical capability in the struggle and right now i am considered as an handicapped by German Medical Association . I am very grateful and thankful to you for welcoming two family whose children are captive in this dangerous cult which resides in Auver Sur Oise .

As you have been witnessing that despite of Mrs. Maryam RAJAVI’s slogans that call herself and her organization as the only alternative for overthrowing the Iranian regime and also calls herself the future president of Iran after overthrowing the Iranian regime and she always talks about freedom and democracy but she does not want to respond to any request from families and others because the freedom of speech does not exist in this cult by no means .

All the members of this cult who want to return to their normal life , are confronted with lots of obstacles and the leaders of this cult tell them if they do not talk against this cult ,they will be supported financially . They are threatened by the leaders of this cult that if they talk against this cult , their benefits will be cut and they are told by the leadership of this cult that their life belong to the leadership .

Mrs Mayor As you know despite of huge amount of money which this cult spends in France , Maryam RAJAVI does not do anything to rescue the residents of camp liberty in Iraq . Most of those stranded members in Iraq need urgent medical attention but unfortunately the cult’s operatives by the direct order of Maryam RAJAVI prevent it and when one of those stranded members dies , Maryam RAJAVI wears the human rights’ robe and she blames all the governments throughout the world.

Mrs. Mayor Some of the members of my family are still in captivity of this cult in Iraq. One of them is Mr. Akbar MOEINI who is my cousin and he has the blood cancer . when he was in France , he was seen and checked by the doctors and his blood cancer became a little bit better but when he met the UNAMI’s officials in Iraq and he explained his sickness and his refugee status in France to them . the Mojahedin operatives kept him in Iraq and they told him why did he ask them for medical help ?! they kept him there to die to put his picture in the frame for publicity in favor of this cult.

This is one of the crimes that Maryam RAJAVI by the direct order of her hidden and fugitive husband , Massoud RAJAVI, has done and i would like to inform you about some of the crimes which she has done so far :

1. All married members of this cult were ordered to get divorced by the direct order of Massoud and Maryam RAJAVI.

2. All women who were married before or were single, married to his husband , Massoud RAJAVI, by Maryam RAJAVI’s direct order .

3. Before sleeping with Massoud RAJAVI, their womb was taken out in a surgical operation to prevent pregnancy and if a woman refused it , she should have accepted the death penalty .

4. All children from 6 months old and teenagers got separated from their parents by the direct order of Massoud and Maryam RAJAVI. we were told by the operatives of this cult that all families cooperate with Iranian government and all families are mercenary and families were insulted by them. Mrs. Mayor I asked Maryam RAJAVI in different occasions to participate in a debate with us even in her so called Freedom TV but she did not answer . her fugitive husband , Massoud RAJAVI, gives a voice message from time to time and in this voice message he threatens all critics to death .

Mrs Mayor some of ladies and I who were a member of this cult before, have an association in Germany by the name of Iranian Women Association . our objective in this association is to help the ladies and gentlemen who separate from this cult in their administrative and juridical affaires . We as officials of Iranian Women Association would like to have an appointment with you

All the best Zahra MOEINI Frankfurt – Germany

Zahra Moeini, Iran Zanan,13.09.2015

September 15, 2015 0 comments

USA

Rastgou; Open letter to Obama

Dear President Obama,

We want you to know, that a majority of ordinary Iranians, both home and abroad, support the nuclear deal. As Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian-American journalist, quotes in the Washington Post, 1) thousands of Iranians have gathered in various cities across the world to rally for the deal´s passage.

According to a new poll by the University of Teheran´s Center for Public Opinion Research (UTCPOR) and IranPoll.com, working in conjunction with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), some 57 percent of Iranians support a nuclear deal.2)

Even critics of the Iranian regime support the deal. Dozens of high-profile Iranians, many of whom have been jailed for their political views, launched a video campaign calling the Congress not to inhibit the nuclear deal.3) The campaign includes messages from celebrated film-maker Jafar Panahi, Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, and British-Iranian activist Ghoncheh Ghavami. Also 340 Jewish rabbis sent a letter to Congress on Monday declaring their support for the Iran nuclear deal.4)

This should prove, that supporting the nuclear deal does not mean supporting the Iranian regime. But this is what those, who lobby against the deal, especially the “Mojahedin-e-Khalg Organization” (MEK/MKO/PMOI)” try to make their followers believe.

The deal´s opponents in the Iranian Diasporas are a minority, some of whom are connected to certain pressure group in Western capitals. They do not represent the Iranian people!

The MEK, calling themselves “the Iranian Resistance”, try hard to prevent this deal because they want to force a military invention. Therefore they send out their fellas like Bob Mendez, who is a longtime supporter of the MEK,5) to vote against the deal. Working together with Israeli and US warmongers they spend thousands of dollars campaigning against the deal.

We want you, Mr. President, to recognize, that those who yell for a hard line against Teheran, are not the voice of the Iranian people!

We want you to see, that the Iranian people support an approaching to the US!

We want you to fight for this deal, for freedom and for the people!

Please do not forget thatthose who have paid the highest price for the cause of democracy and human rights in Iran (majority of the Iranian people) are supporting the deal.

Yours sincerely,

AAWA Association e.V.

Dipl. Ing. Ali Akbar Rastgou (Chairman)

September 2015

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/26/these-iranian-pro-democracy-activists-want-congress-to-back-the-nuclear-deal/

[2] http://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2015/jun/23/poll-1-majority-iranians-support-deal

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/25/prominent-iranians-launch-campaign-congress-nuclear-deal

[4] http://thehill.com/policy/defense/251263-340-rabbis-urge-congress-to-support-iran-nuclear-deal

[5] https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/long-march-yellow/

September 5, 2015 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Open Letter to Susana Klien and Caroline Haworth of Womankind Worldwide

As the outgoing and the incoming CEOs you will both be sensitive to the enduring reputation of your valuable charity Womankind Worldwide. We hope therefore that you are aware by now that you have become the latest target for another of the Mojahedin Khalq’s deceptive propaganda campaigns.

This summer, your charity floated an engaging invitation on its Facebook page for women to nominate their ‘women’s rights idol’. Sadly, perhaps inevitably, Womankind was then inundated with nominations and praise for Maryam Rajavi. The effect has been to hijack the page and spoil its intent.

The Mojahedin are not doing this to promote women’s rights and cannot point to a single real-life example of what Maryam Rajavi is supposed to have done to help women. Instead they are trying to whitewash their savage past and evade the court cases and allegations of gross human rights abuses inside the organisation.

We are all witnesses to the cruelties Maryam Rajavi has inflicted on the female members of the cult she created with her fugitive husband Massoud Rajavi. Maryam Rajavi is indisputably responsible for the deaths and mistreatment of tens of women members. And this is an ongoing problem. Only this month Maryam Rajavi’s response to a young Iranian Canadian woman who visited her headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, searching for her sister, was to send a gang of thugs into the street to beat her up. This is not the action of a defender of women’s rights.

Have no doubt, Maryam Rajavi’s notoriety is known worldwide – from the US State Department and Human Rights Watch to the Human Rights Ministry of Iraq. And closer to home, the Foreign and Commonwealth office and the Home Office in the UK.

Although we are confident that you have no intention of allowing the reputation of Womankind Worldwide to be tarnished by association with this cult and its leaders, we thought a friendly heads-up to be appropriate at this stage. All of us are happy to provide more information on this issue. The following links are a good starting point.

Yours sincerely,

Batoul Soltani – Germany

Open letter of Iranian Women’s Association to Mr. Otto Bernhardet: Do you know who Maryam Rajavi is?

Homeyra Mohammad Nejad – Germany

Open letter to Mrs. Jane Holl Lute

Nasrin Ebrahimi – Switzerland

Beware of Maryam Rajavi’s deception (open letter to Régine Deforge)

Zahra Mirbagheri – Iran

78 signatories: Mojahedin Khalq terror group are threatening to kill us in your country (Open letter to François Hollande)

Zahra Moini – Germany

President Hollande should curtail violent activities of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) in France

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton) – U.K.

Silencing the victims of Mojahedin Khalq to promote Maryam Rajavi

And some relevant links:

In 1997, the Home Secretary excluded Mrs Rajavi from the UK on the ground that “ We need to take a firm stance against terrorism”. That exclusion remains in force.