Mr. Karim Khan,
Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Greetings and regards,
I, Nasser Almasi, am one of the plaintiffs in the case against the Mojahedin-e Khalq. Given that the MEK led by Maryam Rajavi have been convicted of human rights abuses and the case has been handed over to the International Court of Justice in the Hague after confirmation of the verdict, you are expected to take immediate action to prosecute Rajavi’s agents.
Sincerely,
Nasser Almasi
Iran – Zanjan
Mr. Karim A. A. Khan QC
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Greetings and Regards,
I am Robabeh Razavi Zadeh Bahabadi the sisters of a member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rasjavi Cult).
My brother; Hossein Razavi Zadeh Bahabadi was a prisoner of war in a POW camp in Iraq and joined the MEK under pressure and deception.
He is currently being held in the MEK’s camp in Albania. In these long years of separation, I have had no news of him. He is deprived of all the basic rights of an ordinary citizen, including contact with outside the camp, especially contact with his family.
I was informed that the case file of 42 former members of the MEK, as well as the final verdict issued by the Tehran court, has been handed over to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague for consideration and review.
I request that the case be expedited so that the leaders of the MEK would be tried in an international court.
Thanks,
Robabeh Razavi Zadeh Bahabadi
sister of Hoseein Razavi Zadeh Bahabadi
Yazd Province – Iran
Ms. Robabeh Razavi Zadeh Bahabadi
Nothing is as toxic to democracy as is censorship. Censorship prevents democracy. If Massoud Rajavi’s dictatorship, called the Mujahedin Khalq, still exists in Albania, it does so by means of censorship, because only by that means the MEK’s cult-like system can control its rank and file. Former member of the MEK, Taleb Farhan, testifies about the censorship process that filters all news and information entering the group.
Taleb Farhan was recruited by the MEK agents in the early 2000. As a newly-recruited member he was able to figure out that the news broadcast in camp Ashraf was controversial. “I started doubting the accuracy and reliability of the news that was shown on TV and the news bulletin of Ashraf,” Farhan writes.
“I made efforts to know about the truth,” he adds. “Finally, I was appointed to work in the cultural session of the entrance unit and then in unit 7 of the camp. The task was to record the news of the MEK’s TV channel and then to play it for the rank and file in the eating place, twice a day. We also were in charge of printing and distributing the news bulletin of the group.”
Taleb Farhan
This is while the MEK propaganda claims that “MEK’s network of supporters and activists has played an important role in circumventing the Iranian regime’s censorship of news and creating a flow of information to and from Iran”. The MEK’s own TV channel is censored for the members of the group inside its headquarters. According to Taleb Farhan, certain parts of the news, news reports and films are censored due to a variety of reasons.
One reason which seems very reactionary is recounted by Taleb Farhan: “Many parts of the MEK-run events and gatherings in European countries had to be censored because female participants had no hijab. Female foreign guests of the events had to be censored because they might sexually stimulate members.”
The authorities of the MEK use the notorious techniques of fabricating fake news and launching misinformation. Taleb Farhan states, “They abuse the ignorance of the rank and file about the outside world so they cut out what they do not want to be seen and they just show what is modified in accordance with their own interests.”
The censorship process in the MEK is strict, complicated and frequent. “Although each content was supposed to be checked several times by different levels of the group’s hierarchy, it was once more checked by the commander of each unit before it was played in the eating place,” Farhan adds.
A period of working in the cultural session made Farhan sure that he was right to doubt any information broadcasted in the MEK. “I made sure that the group was trying to deceive the rank and file,” he writes. “The MEK leaders are terrified of their awareness on the realities in the outside world. I believe that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are not able to rule their members unless they take them as hostages and keep them ignorant.”
To Karim Asad Ahmad Khan
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Dear Prosecutor
I am Shamsollah Noori, the father of HamidReza Noori. My son has been imprisoned in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ PMOI) for many years. When the MEK was located in Iraq, I traveled to Iraq several times to visit my son but the anti-humane and anti-freedom MEK did not allow me to visit him.
I am a heart-broken father. My son was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war. He was not a member of any political party or group. He was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. The MEK agents deceived him into jointing their group and took him to Camp Ashraf. Today, my son is in Albania and the group leaders do not permit him to contact his family.
I hear that defectors of the MEK have complained against the group in an Iranian court and the verdict issued by the national court has been submitted to you. I support the complaint of the defectors. I hope that you investigate the file and open a way for me, as a father who wants to meet his son in Albania.
Sincerely,
Shamsollah Noori
Markazi Province, Iran
HamidReza Noori Parents
Mr. Behrouz Oladi, brother of Masoumeh Oladi a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in Albania, said in an interview with the Nejat Society correspondent:
Greetings and regards to all grieving families, mothers and fathers who have been waiting to visit their children for years. I also extend my greetings and special thanks to the services of all the loved ones who are working all over Iran, especially in the Nejat Society throughout the country. I really thank you from the bottom of my heart and I sincerely say that during these years, these people really worked hard for us in various fields and made it possible for us to make our voices heard by our loved ones in any way possible.
I am Behrouz Oladi. In 2004, my sister Masoumeh Oladi was abducted by Rajavi cult agents on her way to school while she was a 16-year-old girl. At noon that day, because Masoumeh did not return home, we quickly went to many places looking for her. We informed many organizations and bodies. In the evening of that day, at 11 pm, we were informed that Masoumeh had been abducted by individuals and was now a prisoner of the Rajavi Cult in the Ashraf garrison in Iraq. I, who was about 20 years older than my sister, had never heard of the MEK at that time, let alone my 16-year-old sister.
Masoumeh Oladi’s brother
The organization declares that people are there of their own free will! I ask you if it is possible for a 16-year-old girl who has not heard the name of this organization at all and does not know what the organization wants, go to another country and join this cult willingly?
Over 10 times I went myself and about 5 times with my old and ill mother to visit my sister at the door of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. But every time I was confronted with obscenities, insults, and repeated attacks with stones, bows, and arrows on myself and my mother. I was injured many times. Even on a trip I had with my mother, the pressure on my mother and myself was so intense that a doctor who had been stationed by Iraqi forces when he examined my mother said that my mother’s blood pressure had reached 19 and was very high. I rushed my mother to a hospital in Baghdad.
Masoume Oladi’s mother holding her photo
Now I ask you, all human rights and international organizations, how an organization that supposedly inspires human rights and democracy does not allow an ailing,aged mother and a brother who were thousands of kilometers away from their own country and had come empty handed to the door of Ashraf garrison to visit their loved ones, even from a distance of 10 meters. I was severely traumatized in two ways. First while being away from my sister, my teenage sister who has been abducted and I have not seen her or heard her voice for 20 years. Second, my old and miserable mother, who is constantly grieving my sister.
I’m talking to you now from my mother’s house. But she can’t sit next to me even for 5 minutes. I lost my father. My mother is also waiting for my sister. Every moment there is a conversation, she asks me with tears in his eyes that what about Masoumeh?
All the loved ones and families who were with us at various ceremonies and were with us at the entrance of Ashraf garrison know me and my mother. Our subject is families. It is a matter of humanity. It is a matter of emotion. All the loved ones who have suffered physical and mental damages in this organization, and are now separated, have complained against the leaders of the organization and the families are also complaining. I express my full support for this complaint.
Massoume Oladi family in front of Camp Ashraf
As a brother, on behalf of all the brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers who are really waiting for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, more or less to see their loved ones, I wish that they can see the beautiful faces of their loved ones. God willing, good news will come to them day by day. Hear the news of every MEK hostage’s seperation and release makes us delighted.
There were family members of MEK hostages among us who have passed away. There are also families who are sick and disable now.
I wish that all the loved ones who are in the captivity of this cult be released and return to their families as soon as possible. I wish good health for all the families, especially the hardworking loved ones in the Nejat Society.
++ Former MEK member Ehsan Bidi, who had been detained without charge for two years at the behest of the MEK working with corrupt officials, was finally released this week. The MEK did not acknowledge this whatsoever. It simply shows that the MEK has been defeated by one man, with no support, in a country like Albania which is a stronghold for the US, Saudi, Israel anti-Iran coalition. Among many reactions to this, some ex-members wrote: ‘This is what they do to us in Albania, and that’s why they don’t allow our families to come. They have this hold over us that we have no support.’ One wrote: ‘After 30 years working for them. I had to choose between being an informer for the MEK among the ex-members or run away and hide. I chose to run away and had to live for weeks in a cave’. Many have written that the release of Bidi after two years, alongside the issue of ID cards to MEK members represents a huge blow to Maryam Rajavi. Although she is keeping face, she is really shivering because this shows that her backers are not that interested anymore. She has already been deported from the EU and has nowhere else to go. There are only two outcomes: she will either rot in Albania or vanish like her husband did. Either way, this is the end of the MEK.
++ The MEK have gone fully overboard in trying to get their name associated with David Amess MP following his murder in the UK last week. In Albania, Maryam Rajavi has hailed him as a martyr for freedom in an inappropriately gaudy, crass ceremony in their camp. The question for many is ‘why?’ Amess was only a lobbyist for the MEK, just doing his job and being paid for it. Some point out that with the amount of money they spent on him, the MEK want to get their money’s worth. Others say that Maryam Rajavi lost him at a bad time. They don’t have any major lobbyists left – Bolton, Giuliani and etc have gone. Others point out that this has been an opportunity for Maryam Rajavi to remind the members that they do have some support; an MP in the UK. Rajavi is very much afraid of losing the members even though they are stuck in Albania. In the last week 3 members have left. Political analysts say that David Jones MP – who has already replaced Amess – was second in command in the lobby group in parliament. He replaced Amess just as Amess replaced Robin Corbett when he died. The problem for Rajavi is that when they are moved up, they expect more money. So, it is a loss for her. From a different perspective, some of the MEK families have issued a warning and asked for intervention. They write that because there is a shortage of lobbyists for the MEK, it is clear they will try to bamboozle Amess’ family – his wife and children – to misuse them for propaganda purposes in Albania. As ordinary people they won’t understand the danger the MEK represents to them. Amess was a politician and knew who he was dealing with. He wasn’t prepared to join them on any ideological level and give up his family. But are his family so aware. The British services need to intervene to protect his family from this cult.
In English:
++ Phil Simmons wrote a piece for Human Lives Human Rights titled ‘Women Inside MEK Cult’. The piece charts as background the history of the MEK up to its expulsion from Iraq to Albania. Here, writes the author, the group’s treatment of women has come under scrutiny. Behind Maryam Rajavi’s many glamorous public appearances, the women members are reputedly subject to many human rights abuses, including forced marriage and separation from their children. Simmons says many allegations against the MEK ‘are to be taken with a grain of salt’ as the sources are from Iranian media. However, there are still legitimate concerns: questions over female members’ access to medical care and personal hygiene products, and forced intimate relations with multiple partners. Questions also remain about the advanced age of the female members and the likelihood that they could be replaced by younger female Afghan recruits. Simmons concludes that by not allowing human rights organisations to investigate such question, the MEK has allowed, by default, Iran’s media to tarnish the group’s image by publishing unsubstantiated reports.
++ Press TV reported that a senior official of Iran’s Judiciary has asked Iraq to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. In a meeting with Iraqi Justice Minister Salar Abdul Sattar Muhammad in Tehran on Tuesday, Kazem Gharibabadi, the secretary general of Iran’s Human Rights Office, said the two countries firmly pursue the assassination case. The activities of the MEK were also discussed as the two countries pledged to cooperate over human rights investigations.
Oct 22, 2021
Abdulrahim Nazari was deceived by the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) recruiters in Turkey and taken to Camp Ashraf, Iraq while he had no idea about the group.
Abdulrahim was a young Iranian Turkman that traveled to Turkey to find a job in 2002. He was married but he left his wife and children in Iran in order to make money in Turkey. “I was looking for a job in Ankara,” he recounts. “I was running out of money when I ran into an Iranian man there. He claimed that he had a god job offer for me.”
The man was called Ali Ankarai who was the MEK’s recruiter in Turkey. Most of MEK defectors name him as the person who deceived them to go to Iraq and join the MEK. He took Abdulrahim to a hotel and paid all his expenses for a few days.
“He insisted that I not leave the hotel,” Abdulrahim says. “After a few days, Ali Ankarai came to the hotel and told us about an excellent job with an excellent payment in Germany. He said that we had to stay in a three-months quarantine in Iraq and then we would be transferred to Europe. Then he began playing some films of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi for several days. I did not know who the MEK was.” The brainwashing process had been started.
Abdulrahim Nazari , MEK Ex-member
Together with six other people, Abdulrahim was taken to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He recounts the day they entered Camp Ashraf, “When we arrived in Camp Ashraf, a number of female commanders of the MEK received us. To our surprise, they gave us some military uniforms! We asked, ‘why’. We were answered ‘you are a member of Mujahedin Khalq now’. We protested and asked to leave the group but exit was forbidden. They said ‘You know Camp Ashraf now. We cannot let you go. If you really want to go, we will submit you to Iraqi police and they will jail you as spies and eventually you will be sentenced to at least eight years of imprisonment.’ “
This was the beginning of the three-year stay for Abdulrahim Nazari in Camp Ashraf. “I cried all day long the first day I entered Camp Ashraf,” he says. “After a few days commanders started the brainwashing sessions. They held so many sessions that we were left no time to think.”
After the American invasion to Iraq in 2003, the MEK was disarmed by the US military and Camp Ashraf was guarded by them. The US army commanders set up a camp called TIPF in order to settle those who want to leave the MEK. Abdorahim Nazari could manage to leave Camp Ashraf and join TIPF. He ultimately returned to Iran and got back to his family in his home town, in 2006.
His wife who had suffered a lot in the absence of Abdurahim soon died after her husband came home. “This is the fault of the traitor leaders of the MEK that I lost my first wife,” he says. “She could not survive those huge sufferings. She has a heart stroke and passed away. I do not forgive leaders of the MEK.”
Abdulrahim was depressed after his wife’s death. It took him some time to encourage himself to keep on. He got married again. About his new life he says, “Thank God. I have a happy life now and I try to keep up our happiness. I am hopeful about my future. I am very grateful to God because he helped me leave the MEK.”
As a defector of the MEK, Abdulrahim Nazari supports the action taken by 42 defectors of the group to complain against Massoud and Maryam Rajavi and other high-ranking members of the MEK in the International Court of The Hague.
Mr. Karim A. A. Khan QC
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Greetings and Regards,
We, the undersigned, support a complaint filed by 42 former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, THE MEK, Rajavi Cult) against the leaders of the cult.
The documents related to the complaint and the evidence and the final verdict by the Tehran International Court have been submitted to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague in July of this year for your attention and further examination and action.
While fully supporting the subject of this complaint, we urge you to expedite the processing of this case.
Appreciations and Obligations
List of signatures:
1- Hadi Shabani the former member of the MEK
2- Jamshid Ghale sari the former member of the MEK
3- Majid Mohammadi the former member of the MEK
4- Masoud Daryabari the former member of the MEK
5- Iraj Salehi the former member of the MEK
6- Mohammadreza Goli Eskardi the former member of the MEK
7- Abdoullah Afghan the former member of the MEK
8- Eynollah Shabani the former member of the MEK
9- Ghorbanali Bradran the former member of the MEK
10- Hossein Ghrayagh Zandi the former member of the MEK
11- Doost Mohammad Farahi the former member of the MEK
12- Majid Ghraati the former member of the MEK
13- Noroz Tavakkoli the former member of the MEK
14- Hoseen Alizade the former member of the MEK
15- Aliasghar Babapoor the former member of the MEK
16- Alireza Bahri the former member of the MEK
Mr. Karim A. A. Khan QC
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Greetings and Regards,
We are sisters of a member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization named Mohammad Zarezadeh Baghdadabadi. Our brother was a prisoner of war in a POW camp in Iraq who joined the MEK under pressure and deception.
He is currently being held in the MEK’s camp in Albania. In these long years of separation, we have had no news of him. He is deprived of all the basic rights of an ordinary citizen, including having access to the outside world and contacting his family.
We were informed that the case file of 42 former members of the MEK, as well as the final verdict issued by the Tehran court, has been handed over to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague for consideration and review.
We request that the case be expedited so that the leaders of the MEK would be tried in an international court.
Thanks
sisters of Mohammad Zare Baghdadabadi
Bibi Gol-Taherh-Goli-Robab-Khadijeh-Sedigheh-Tayebeh
Yazd Province – Iran
Mohammad Zarezadeh Baghdadabadi family members
Former member of the Mujahedin Khalq, Ehsan Bidi, was released from jail in Albania. Although the Albanian police had not explained his charge, he was kept in jail for two years.
Ehsan Bidi was welcome by the defectors of the MEK in Tirana, Albania. They celebrated his freedom in a party in Hassan Heirani’s café, in Tirana.
Some of the defectors living in Iran and a few of family members of the hostages in the MEK’s camps in Albania, also video called Ehsan Bidi congratulating him on his salvation from an unfair penalty.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society published a message on the occasion of Ehsan Bidi’s release. “Mr Ehsan Bidi is one of the survivors of the Cult of Rajavi in Albania who was trapped in the Albanian corrupt security system that collaborates with MEK leaders but he did not give up,” Khodabandeh wrote. “He was under the most severe mental and physical pressure intrigued by the propaganda of the Cult of Rajavi. The group leaders tried to show Bidi’s case to the rank and file as an example of defectors’ fate outside the group. They literally threatened members claiming that they would be able to fix such a fate for every defector of the group.”
Nevertheless, Ehsan Bidi’s resistance and determination to stand against the MEK was fruitful. He was freed from jail on Monday, October 18th, 2021.
Ehsan Bidi joined the MEK in Iraq, in 2002. He stayed under the group’s cult-like ruling for about ten years. He escaped the group after it was expelled from Camp Ashraf and was relocated in Camp Liberty, near Baghdad airport. Bidi left Iraq for Albania where he was granted a ten-year residence and permission to work.
As a survivor of the Cult of Rajavi he began criticizing the leaders of the cult in the social media. After the MEK was relocated in Albania, the group leaders hatched a plot to silence Bidi conspiring with the Albanian authorities against him.
