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Baghdad will host the Black Plague Exhibition

For the first time Baghdad will host the Black Plague Exhibition on November 2, 2010.

A number of members of the House of Representatives and political figures as well as national organizations will attend the Conference and exhibition.

This is a photographic exhibition exposing the crimes and practices of the Mojahedin-e- Khalq Organization in the province of Diyala ,Iraq.

The exhibition comprises 100 large colour photographs (100 × 70) cm.

It is worth mentioning that the exhibition held in Diyala Province on September 2010 and was attended by several members of the House of Representatives, local government officials of Diyala province along with Senate members, academic figures, the media and managers of departments in the district of Khalis as well as Tribes leaders.

November 1, 2010 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Recent Human Rights Violation in the Mujahedin – Part1

Statement of Massoud Tayebi, the dissociated Vice President of the Army Staff Headquarters and a member of the Central Council of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (aka MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi’s cult, MEK…).

At the time I chose to leave the Mujahedin Organization, I, Massoud Tayebi, was a Vice President of the Army Staff Headquarters and member of the Central Council of the Mujahedin. I also held a high position in the Organizational MO, which is a rank for males only. I have more than twenty years of Organizational activity and work experience with the Mujahedin Organization.

After two decades of active political life with the Mujahedin, I managed to escape the Mujahedin’s base in Iraq, and at present I am living in Europe as a political refugee.

I started my political activity with the Mujahedin in 1978. In 1981 I was arrested and spent one year in Evin’ and Ghezelhesar’ prisons in Tehran. After my release, I continued my political activities with the Mujahedin. The government discovered my activity and one night armed personnel attacked my residence. I escaped the attack and for six months lived underground in the city of Mashhad. In 1984, I was helped to flee Iran by the Kurdish Democratic Party and to join the Mujahedin’s bases in Kurdistan in the north of Iraq.

From then until 2001 I worked in the Mujahedin performing various duties, including with the publicity department. In 1991, I was appointed as a member of the Central Council of the Mujahedin Organization. My name and identity is registered in the Mujahed Publication (Special Edition) of 1991 which is available as evidence.

In 1994, I went to Paris with Maryam Rajavi, returning to Iraq again in .1996. In 1999, in recognition of my 20 years of professional political and organizational activity with the Mujahedin I was appointed as a Vice President of the Army Staff Headquarters. My picture is printed in Mujahed publication No. 562 year 2000. My latest duties in the Mujahedin were to produce and anchor the propaganda program on the 24 hour satellite program of the National Liberation Army of Iran. I have a video recording in which I am performing as broadcaster in accordance with my long relationship with the Mujahedin and also my experience in camera work, I was present in a meeting during which some individuals who were not in agreement with the Mujahedin’s political policy, expressed their desire to leave the organization. Unfortunately, as a result, they were subjected to an unfair trial. This trial was organized and directed by the leader of the Mujahedin, Massoud Rajavi. There was neither a defense lawyer nor a jury in this trial.

I realized how cruel and unfair the Mujahed in really are by holding such trial. This made me think and, after 23 years of serving this Organization, I decided to disassociate myself from the Mujahedin. I hold it necessary to notify others of my disassociation with the Mujahedin Organization through this announcement.

Masoud Tayebi

October 25, 2010 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

MKO former members meet with authorities of Amnesty International

A delegation of MKO former members met with authorities of Amnesty International. During the meeting they described and clarified the situation of picketing families of Rajavis’ Cult hostages at Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf ) as well as the condition and situation of captive members of the MKO Cult. They also declared the families’ rightful demands of visiting with their loved ones. They asked the Amnesty international to intervene and force the MKO aka PMOI/MEK/MKO leadership to allow those families to see and meet their loved ones.
A letter also presented to the Amnesty International:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
72 – 76 Bd de la Villette
75940 Paris cedex 19
France
15 0ctober 2010
Amnesty international organization

Honorable and distinguished President of Amnesty International in France Madam. Genevieve Garrigos,

As you are well informed through many revelations which have been accomplished by many freed and rescued former members of pmoi (Rajavi’s cult) in recent months , since eight months ago many desperate elderly people who are the family of some of those captivated members inside the military garrison ,so called Ashraf base located in Diyali province ,the township of khalis, have been picketing to show their complaint and protest against the pmoi’s leadership and operatives who do not allow them to meet their loved ones in Ashraf which is one of the preliminary rights of any human being. Those mentioned families have been badly threated by the operatives of pmoi whom in many occasions have passed and violated the red line of human rights charter. I would like to draw your attention to some of those violations which are as follows:

The pmoi operatives have slandered and accused those honorable families ,who are mostly elderly people, by bringing some of their brainwashed members to swear and curse those families .

The high ranking members of this cult have attacked those families in the groups of 40-50 and in one occasion one of the woman commanders with the name of Hengameh Haji Hassan attacked those families with a sharp cold arms to harm them but fortunately her vicious and violent act was thwarted by Iraqi police who were present at the scene.

The pmoi leadership have forced and coerced some of their brainwashed members to participate in pmoi TV program so called Simayeh Azadi to swear and accuse those elderly people whom are their relatives. If those chosen miserable members refuse their leadership orders , they will be badly punished and pestered by the operatives of pmoi.

The tough security measures have been carried out inside Ashraf garrison by the direct order of pmoi leadership based in France specially after the escape of 6 members from Ashraf garrison. Two of those escapes have occurred recently , but two other escape attempts were failed and they got arrested and beaten up by the operatives of pmoi.

The people who succeeded to escape mentioned that the leadership of pmoi has intimidated all the members of being tortured and killed by those elderly families and Iraqi police if they try to escape from Ashraf garrison .

The pmoi leadership has mentioned and pointed out that the Iraqi government does not allow those families to meet with their loved ones but this statement is completely untruth and is a big lie which pmoi leadership by telling it wants to cover the real reason .

We are former member of pmoi and human rights activist urging and entreating all human rights organizations specially Red cross organization and Amnesty international to step forward and intervene in this humanitarian incident and force pmoi leadership to allow those families to see and meet their loved ones whom have been deprived of having any sentiment and love to their families because of tough and vicious cultic regulations and policy for a long period of time.

Best Regards

Transcript
• Red Cross organization
• Human Rights Watch
• The office of The prime minister of Iraq
• Iraq Embassy in Paris,France
• The UNAMI main office in Iraq
The UNHCR headquarter in France

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October 24, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Iraqi tribes’ representatives meet with families of Ashraf residents

On Monday October 4th, 2010 a number of Iraqi tribal nationals from Salahuddin Province including Doctor Nafe’ and Ms. Dm-i-Ali offered their sympathy to families who are on strike in front of Ashraf gates. Iraqi journalists were also present at the meeting that lasted a few hours.
Iraqi tribes' representatives meet with families of Ashraf residents
Mrs. Abdullahi [a mother of an Ashraf resident] representing the Iranian families told the visitors:"we have been here on strike for nine months, suffering the worst situation. Our single request is visiting our loved children of whom some have been captive in Camp Ashraf for two decades. The cult of Rajavi refuses this small wish to fulfill, since it is contrary to its cult-like substance."

The tribe’s deputies said that they had had no idea of the families strike at Camp Ashraf and MKO had abstained to respect such a reasonable right.

They promised to pursue the case in Iraqi judiciary and media. Some of the visitors were so impressed by Mrs. Abdullahi’s words and her words brought a tear to their eyes.listening to her with tearshat they couldn’t help their tears.

During the visit a few recently defected members of MKO also spoke to the audience by clarifying the current atmosphere ruling the cult. Their descriptions caused extreme wonder among the attendees.

October 23, 2010 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Mrs. Maleki Letter to the US Secretary of States concerning MKO

Dear Mrs. Hillary, Honorable Secretary of State

Respectfully, I would like to introduce myself before anything else. I am an ex member of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO). In 1990 I became an outspoken critic of what is know as the "forced divorces" and special relations between the organisation and Saddam Hussein, the ousted dictator of Iraq. I was imprisoned for a few months in solitary confinement inside camps of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation in Iraq. I am living in Switzerland now.

I would like to inform your Excellency that the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran was founded in 1965. Its ideology is a combination of Marxism and Islam.Their ideology is based on fighting against capitalism and they believe that the United States of America is the symbol of global capitalism and they call the USA ‘the World-Eater Imperialism’. Their ideological principle and objective is based on fighting against the United States and its interests, and in this regard they have written and published many books such as, The Carter Presidency (World Eater Imperialism). With such an ideology and approach which exists in the Mojahedin, they began their terrorist operations against American citizens and American offices located in Iran in 1971.

As a result of the terrorist operation which happened in 9/11 in the USA, every country became Batoul Maleki astonished and confused at such brutal and barbaric acts, which targeted thousands innocent people in the twin towers, and all these countries and their governments condemned such brutality and savagery. But, surprisingly the PMOI’s operatives and leaders threw a very big party in Bagherzadeh Garrison in Iraq and celebrated that incident and showed their admiration for that terrorist act by dancing, shouting and congratulating one another in front of their leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.

Massoud Rajavi was on the stage and while he had his hands on his waist he began a war cry against the USA, and in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism and they destroyed the twin towers which were the symbol of their power, and successfully reduced it to rubble through their successful mission”. Then he (Massoud Rajavi) with a smile on his face continued his war cry and said, ”What will happen to the USA if revolutionary Islam with our Ideology and Maryam’s leadership comes to power, then this paper tiger (the USA) will be destroyed as a whole.”

After the downfall of Saddam Hussein, all the PMOI members underwent various interviews for recognition of their identification by the US State Department’s agents, the CIA, FBI, and specifically US Military Information section MI. They gained a huge amount of very valuable information from the PMOI members – all of which documents and information substantiate and prove that the ideology and the strategy of the PMOI are all anti-western, and particularly anti USA.

The US State Department has justly listed the PMOI and its political wing the National Council of Resistance (NCRI) as a terrorist organization in its terrorist list. While the State Department listed them as a terrorist organization, it did not have the valuable information which it now has now. In a report that was published in 2005 by the US State Department regarding the terrorist organization list, it mentioned justly that the PMOI is a potential threat and is a very dangerous terrorist organization. In that report it was mentioned that the PMOI has the potential to become a dangerous organization in any period of time because of their special terrorist training and cohesive organizational structure. For instance, on 17th of June 2003 when Maryam Rajavi was arrested by French Police, PMOI leaders ordered their members to set themselves on fire in public streets. If there was no complaint and protest from the international bodies and humanitarian organizations against this kind of brutality and savagery, it was still going to become one of the biggest of human catastrophes.

I must stress that even though the State Department reports of 2005 and 2006 are not complete, that the report shows that this organization is a religious cult.We think the MKO in Iraq is finished, especially after the fall of Saddam Hussein and his government. The Iraqi Government wants to assert its sovereignty, regain its property, the garrison, and they do not want to keep those people on their soil who cooperated fully with Saddam Hussein against their people. So now we should ask ‘why do the leaders of a cult terrorist organization want to keep the Ashraf,s garrison?

We have enclosed a small sample of the evidence which has already been made public concerning the MKO. The charges against the MKO and in particular its leaders include but are not limited to: crimes against humanity and war crimes inside and outside Iran.

With many thanks and regards

Batoul Maleki

Cc:
– Embassy of USA in swiss
– Ministers of Affairs of the EU-
– Relevant MEPs
-Office of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maleki

October 21, 2010 0 comments

The MEK to launch Armed Struggle

Rajavi Cult starts armed struggle against Iraqi government

Following the direct order of Massoud Rajavi to start attacking the Iraqi police and increase insurgency in the country, the remaining forces of the cult of Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq attacked the police force in order to stop them carrying out their duties, including the establishment of a new security post inside Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf). MKO starts armed struggle

The communiqué issued by the terrorist cult admits that it was the Mojahedin Khalq (aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) who instigated the attack on the Iraqi police force, and the police force have been forced to defend themselves.

It is obvious that the leaders of Mojahedin Khalq terrorist cult fear that the establishment of this new post will facilitate the disaffected members and hostages taken by the cult having greater access to the Iraqi forces and make it harder for the cult leaders to stop them from taking refuge with the police.
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The new developments shows that the leadership of the cult is in no mood to accept personal freedom of the members and that using violence and attacking the police has been the last resort to stop Rajavi’s hostages escaping from the garrison.

October 20, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Urgent call on all judicial authorities and the international communities and the media

A number of families of the members caught inside the Rajavi cult in Iraq have been picketing for nearly nine months in front of the cult’s base called new Iraq garrison (previously Ashraf) demanding to meet their seized loved ones. Sahar Family Foundation once again warns about a humanitarian catastrophe occurring within the cult and inside Ashraf garrison

After three months of sit-in, given that the cult leaders prevent any sort of contact of the families with their loved ones, they decided to use megaphones to let their relatives learn about their presence outside the garrison.

Despite the fact that the distance between the families outside the main gate of the garrison (Asad Gate) and the members being caught up in sectarian settlements was large, but cult leaders installed hundreds of powerful speakers inside the base and established strong regulations prohibiting domestic traffic at three kilometers from the sidelines of the garrison and other restrictions applied, to prevent families communicate with their loved ones.

After many approaches and repeated requests from the Iraqi government, some of families were allowed to be stationed at the South Gate of the garrison and they could call their loved ones using speakers.

According to the information received from within the garrison by Sahar Family Foundation, the voice of the families has been heard by the trapped members inside the garrison and this has had a great impact on them and they have even questioned the leaders on the lies about the presence and intention of the families.

The information suggests that the cult leaders had even decided to move people to another place inside the garrison to prevent them hear the voice of the families, but in terms of moving settlement was very difficult and it would create more questions among the members they did not do so.

News also indicate that the cult leaders intend to open clashes with Iraqi forces in order to let a number of their members being killed and injured in this way and then Rajavi can temporarily overcome controversial problems inside his cult and stop the internal protests taking place.

Rajavi also has threatened that if he cannot go out of the current impasse, on the end of the term he would create "species of Ashura" for the members. This means that like many cults in the past such as Jim Jones cult in Guyana and the cult of David Koresh in Texas, Rajavi would destroy all members of his cult.

Sahar Family Foundation once again warns about a humanitarian catastrophe occurring within the cult and inside Ashraf garrison and calls on all Iraqis judicial authorities and international conventions as well as all the media to act on this issue to let the families meet with their loved ones before the occurrence of such a human tragedy.

October 17, 2010 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Iraq evacuates Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf)

FCO answers Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) lobby in U.K. Parliament

Asked by Lord Corbett of Castle Vale
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent assurances they have requested and received FCO answers Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) lobby in U.K. Parliament from the Government of Iraq about the rights of refugee members of the Iranian resistance at Camp Ashraf. [HL1668]

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Howell of Guildford): Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials in Baghdad visited Camp Ashraf on 24 July 2010 to clarify whether any of the residents qualified for UK consular assistance. During their visit they met with the Iraqi army, which confirmed that food and medical supplies were permitted to enter the camp.

Our ambassador in Baghdad met with the Iraqi Human Rights Minister on 20 May 2010 and underlined the need for the Iraqi authorities to deal with the residents in a way that meets international humanitarian standards. The Iraqi authorities have told the residents that they can no longer stay at Camp Ashraf but have given assurances that no residents will be forcibly transferred to a country where they have reason to fear persecution or where substantial grounds exist to believe they would be tortured. We continue to discuss Camp Ashraf with the Iraqi Government, the EU, the US and the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

In July 2010, FCO officials in Baghdad received a report from the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry into events that took place at the camp in July 2009. We are discussing the contents with interested partners. We will write to the noble Lord with further details.

We have not received any information about the Government of Iraq denying visas to relatives and friends of the residents.

October 13, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

MKO Asks for US, Israeli Help to Stop Defection

The ringleaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have appealed to the US and Israeli security firms to help them bar defectors from escaping MKO’s main camp in northern Iraq, a report said on Saturday. Following several successful escape plans, the MKO leaders inked an agreement with the US Black Water security firm to block defectors' escape

According to a report released by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, despite all fences, barbed wires and other kinds of barricades built around the camp and adoption of strict measures to control the camp residents, a number of members of the terrorist group have found their way out to the free world.

Following several successful escape plans, the MKO leaders inked an agreement with the US Black Water security firm to block defectors’ escape and tighten control over the camp, the report added.

Those MKO members who have succeeded in fleeing the notorious camp have disclosed that the terrorist group’s ringleaders have created a gruesome atmosphere in the camp, specially for women, and have even threatened the female members with rape and other forms of tortures.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s northern Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraq’s security forces took control of Camp Ashraf and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group last year. The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

Some other ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France.

The group started assassination of Iranian citizens and officials after the Islamic Revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the Revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

Numerous articles and letters posted on the Internet by family members of MKO recruits confirm reports of the horrific abuse that the group inflicts on its own members and the alluring recruitment methods it uses.

The most shocking of such stories includes accounts given by former British MKO member Ann Singleton and Mustafa Mohammadi — the father of an Iranian-Canadian girl who was drawn into the group during an MKO recruitment campaign in Canada.

Mohammadi recounts his desperate efforts to contact his daughter, who disappeared several years ago – a result of what the MKO called a ‘two-month tour’ of Camp Ashraf for teenagers.

He also explains how the group forces the families of its recruits to take part in pro-MKO demonstrations in the western countries by threatening to kill their loved ones.

Lacking a foothold in Iran, the terrorist group recruits ill-informed teens from Iranian immigrant communities in western states and blocks their departure afterwards.

October 11, 2010 0 comments

Iran

MKO rallies in New York were puppet shows

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Washington has refused to comment on the fate of the eight Iranian prisoners held in the United States.

Mottaki said on Tuesday that he had given UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a list of eight Iranian prisoners to ask US officials about their release.

"When I asked him (Ban) about the list of eight Iranian prisoners… he said he had passed the list to US officials but unfortunately has not received an answer yet," Fars News Agency quoted the Iranian minister as saying.

Mottaki also touched upon Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks on the 9/11 incident during his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York and said the ambiguity mentioned by the president has surrounded the terrorist act since the day it occurred.
He underlined the 9/11 dispute has so far targeted three Muslim nations, namely Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

"How many more Muslim nations are to become the targets of this incident (9/11) and fall prey to military, political and propaganda moves across the world?"

Mottaki further dismissed the rallies held by the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) during President Ahmadinejad’s stay in New York as ‘puppet shows.’

He further urged the P5+1 — Russia, China, France, the US, the UK and Germany — to attend talks over Tehran’s nuclear issue with ‘serious determination.’

Mottaki said in any future negotiations Tehran’s entitlement to civilian nuclear knowhow should be recognized.

October 10, 2010 0 comments

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