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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Gholizadeh: Rajavi is the one who should be executed

Fatemeh Gholizadeh is one of the seven siblings of Ali Gholizadeh, a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). She spoke of her concerns about her brother, in the on-line conference held by Nejat Society, last month.

Ali was a POW of Iran-Iraq war. He was a voluntary soldier in the war when he was imprisoned by Iraqi forces. He was then deceived by the MEK recruiters to join them in their notorious Camp Ashraf.
Appreciating the actions taken by Nejat Society, Fatemeh introduced herself as “a suffering sister who is speaking on behalf of five sisters, two brothers and a sick father”. “We want freedom for our brother”, she said.

Ali Gholizade sisters behind the MEK Camp in Iraq called Camp Ashraf

“I traveled to Iraq four times, I stood behind the gates of Camp Ashraf and called on my brother but there was no answer, not even a glance by the side of my brother,” Fatemeh said. “Those traitors did not allow my brother to come towards us.”

Ms. Fateme Gholizade; Ali Gholizadeh sister

Addressing her beloved brother, she continued her speech:
“My Dear bro, Dear Ali! We are waiting for you. Our father is sick looking forward to your return. Our mother passed away while she was expecting you coming home. Don’t ruin father’s desire for a visit or a phone call.
“Dear bro! you went to fight Saddam voluntarily; you were tortured in his jail but you were deceived by Massoud Rajavi after a few years. You thought you would return home sooner if you joined Rajavi. What a pity! You just fell from the frying pan into the fire. You lost your youth in the MEK but there is still a chance to get back home. We are waiting for you.

“What a notorious group that deprives you from a phone call! With such a huge technology progress, why are you so retarded that you have no smart phone?
“They are terrified. They don’t want you to hear us. They know if you talk to us, you will leave them. Is it called freedom? No bro! You are in a prison. Don’t stay in their prison! Get back to your homeland!
“Dear Ali get back! No one will hurt you here. You will be neither executed nor imprisoned. The one who should be executed is Massoud who took your life and your youth.”

Ali Gholizadeh’s family have taken any possible actions in order to open a way to contact Ali. They have written numerous letters to the international human rights bodies as well as the Albanian authorities. They have so far published many open letters and video messages to call on their imprisoned brother.

September 13, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Sharqi: I was under mental torture for 24 years in the MEK

Hassan Sharqi is a former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). He addressed the on-line conference held by Nejat Society in August, 2021.
At first, he introduced himself for the participants of the conference:

“I am Hassan Sharqi. I was born in 1954 in Tonekabon [North of Iran]. I was a military man of the Iranain army when I was taken as a war prisoner by the Iraqi forces in Iran-Iraq war in 1980. I was captive in the Iraqi prison for 9 years.”

Hassan Sharqi; MEK ex-member

Hassan was recruited by MEK agents when he was in Iraqi jail. “Fed up with my family issues and the hardship in Iraqi prison, I was betrayed by the propaganda launched by recruiters of the notorious cult of Rajavi.”
He was kept in the MEK’s camps for 24 years. “During the 24 years of my stay in the cult, I and my friends were trapped in forced labor without being paid a penny,” he said. “After 24 years of mental torture, I could manage to escape the group and return to my homeland in 2013.”

Expressing his pleasure for the submission of the petition made by his ex-comrades against the MEK leaders to the Court in the Hague, he said, “impatiently, I am looking forward to the trial of the cult leaders.”
He ended his speech by chanting, “Damn with Massoud and Maryam [Rajavi]! Viva Iran!”

September 12, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

My father is looking forward to have news of his son

Ameneh Yusefi is the sister of MohammadTaqi Yusefi who is a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). MohammadTaqi has not been allowed to contact his family for 35 years.
Ameneh addressed the online conference organized by Nejat Society in August 2021. After introducing herself, she explained how her brother was trapped by the MEK. “My brother was a soldier,” she said. “In 1986, he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. After some years of being jailed in Iraq, he was deceived by the recruiters of the Cult of Rajavi.”

Ameneh Yusefi ; sister of MohammadTaqi Yusefi who is a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization

MohammadTaqi has not contacted his family during the years of living inside the MEK. “My old father is looking forward to get news about his son, day and night,” Ameneh told the audience. “As the representative of my family, I ask you to pursue the case of our beloveds. Regard them as your own family members. How will you feel if you get no news about your loved one for only a week?”

Ameneh prayed for victory of the 42 petitioners (ex-members of the MEK) who could manage to submit the verdict of the Iranian court to the international court. “I was there, in the national court in Tehran in March, 2021,” she added. “Thank God their appeal was productive.”

Asking the authorities to aid her family to contact her brother in Albania, Ameneh expressed her gratitude to Nejat Society for helping them with their requests.

September 12, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Moradkhani: We never forget our loved ones in the MEK

Fereidoon Moradkhani is the brother of Davood Moradkhani. Fereidoon attended the on-line conference held by Nejat Society, last month. Fereidoon has not been able to contact his brother Davood who has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) for 31 years.

Fereidoon addressed the conference:
“…My brother Davood Moradkhani was taken as a prisoner of war by Iraqi forces in the Iran-Iraq war in 1985. He was jailed in Romadi camp for five years. The MEK recruiters came to the camp and promised him to take him to Europe. Davood went to MEK’s Camp Ashraf but it was a one-way path. There was no exit. We have not met him for 35 years. The horrific cult of Rajavi does not value my brother even as a prisoner sentenced to death; he has been deprived of having any contact with us, his family.”

Fereidoon Moradkhani; the brother of Davood Moradkhani

Fereidoon Moradkhani declared his support for the action taken by 42 former members of the MEK to bring the leaders of the group to justice. “My family and I signed the petition to support the petitioners,” he said. “We never forget our loved ones in the MEK. We are terribly concerned about their heath during the Covid Pandemic in the group’s camp in Albania.”

He also appreciated the efforts of Nejat Society to call out the voices of suffering families of MEK hostages. “These actions lit up a spark of hope in our hearts,” he added. “There are numerous individuals like my brother who were brainwashed by the cult and their life was ruined under the shallow promises of the cult.”

Moradkhani spoke of his several trips to Camp Ashraf, Iraq, where he was not allowed to have a short visit with his brother but he and other families picketing there were insulted and attacked by the group agents.

Fereidoon Moradkhani ended his speech saying, “Expressing my hatred toward the horrible treasonous cult of Mojahedin, as the representative of my other siblings, I declare my support for the trial of the group leaders and I demand all individuals and organizations related to this case including the High commissioner of Human Rights of the UN and the International Court of the Hague to aid us paving the way to contact our beloveds who are behind the bars of the Cult of Rajavi in Manza, Albania.”

September 11, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

My brother does not enjoy any human rights in MEK

Zahra Gholizadeh is the sister of a man who has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) for many years. Ali Gholizadeh was very young when he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces in the Iran-Iraq war. He was then kidnapped by the agents of the MEK in Iraq camps. Since then, he has been barred from contacting his family in Iran.

Zahra participated the last month’s online conference of Nejat Society speaking for the audience who included former members of the MEK and families of other members who are taken as prisoners in the MEK’s camp in Albania.

Zahra Gholizadeh

Introducing herself to the audience Zahra said, “I am here as the representative of my family. My brother was a POW in the early years of his adolescence and the damned Saddam Hussein gave my brother to the Cult of Rajavi that deceived him by dishonest promises.”

Appreciating the actions taken by the conference organizers, she asked all human rights bodies to aid the families who are looking forward to visit their loved ones in the MEK. “We just want our brother,” she said. “The cult of Rajavi deprives my brother from his most basic right which is contacting his family.”
Explaining about the efforts made by her family to contact her brother, she said, “I myself traveled to Ashraf three times but the cult did not allow us to visit Ali.”

Ali Gholizadeh

Zahra Gholizadeh and her family got pleased when they were informed that Ali was relocated in Albania but “nothing changed”. They were never allowed to travel to Albania to meet thier brother. “We wrote a lot of letters to my brother but there was no answer,” she said.
“Isn’t it the right of my father to know about his son,” she wondered. “What a rule, what a religion, what an ethic separates a child from his family?” Calling on the human rights bodies she stated, “My brother does not enjoy any human rights.”

Announcing the support of her family for the petition submitted by 42 former members of MEK to the International Court of the Hague, Zahra Gholizadeh expressed hope that the petition would be a preliminary for the release of his brother from the cult of Rajavi.

September 11, 2021 0 comments

Iran

Iran Blasts Western Countries support for MEK terrorists

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeyee blasted the western countries allegations about violation of human rights by the Islamic Republic, saying that such claims are disgraceful lies.

Mohseni Ejeyee categorically dismissed the human rights accusations leveled against Iran by some western states and described such a move as disgraceful at a time when the West does not show any respect for human rights.

The Iranian judiciary chief, meantime, referred to the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) terrorist group which is operating against Iran in some western countries with the backing of those governments.

“The hypocrites (MKO members) who assassinated and martyred thousands of innocent people, tortured in the harshest way, and destroyed people’s property, today are welcomed and sheltered by some human rights advocates and even appreciate them while considering the Islamic Republic a violator of human rights.”

In a relevant development last month, Iran’s High Council of Human Rights in a statement on Monday rapped the US and other western states for instrumental use of terrorist groups to attain their colonial goals.

“The systematic support of the US regime and the western governments for terrorists and their affiliate streams across the world is a manifestation of their false claims about fighting terrorism and displays the instrumental use of this capacity to advance their colonial goals,” the Council said in a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the martyrdom of Iran’s late president Mohammad Ali Rajayee and former prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar by the MKO terrorist group.

It added that silence and passivity towards terrorism anywhere in the world and the classifying terrorism into good and bad is the main capacity for the spread of terrorism in all parts of the world, and no government or nation will be safe from its consequences.

The statement lashed out at certain governments and international bodies for their silence on the cruelest crimes against the Iranian nation in the past 4 decades and sheltering the anti-Iran terrorists, and said, “They are the main culprits behind the spread of terrorism in the world.”

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they received support from then-dictator Saddam Hussein.

The notorious outfit has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials for several decades.

In 2012, the US State Department removed the MKO from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated with the Saudi regime and other regimes adversarial to Iran.

A few years ago, MKO members were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and were later sent to Albania.

Those members, who have managed to escape, have revealed MKO’s scandalous means of access to money, almost exclusively coming from Riyadh.

The MKO terrorist group specified the targets as martyred Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who commanded the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Iranian Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi.

The terrorist organization said it would “welcome” their assassination, adding that it desired for the ranking officials to “join” Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehran’s former chief prosecutor, and Ali Sayyad-Shirazi, a former commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces during Iraq’s 1980-88 war against Iran.

Earlier in June 2019, leaked audio of a phone conversation between two members of MKO, revealed Saudi regime has colluded with the MKO elements to frame Iran for the tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf.

In the audio, which is being released by the Iran Front Page for the first time, Shahram Fakhteh, an official member and the person in charge of MKO’s cyber operations, is heard talking with a US-based MKO sympathizer named Daei-ul-Eslam in Persian, IFP news reported.

In this conversation, the two elements discuss the MKO’s efforts to introduce Iran as the culprit behind the tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf, and how the Saudis contacted them to pursue the issue.

“In the past week, we did our best to blame the [Iranian] regime for the (oil tanker) blasts. Saudis have called Sister Maryam (Rajavi)’s office to follow up on the results, [to get] a conclusion of what has been done, and the possible consequences,” Fakhteh is heard saying.

“I guess this can have different consequences. It can send the case to the UN Security Council or even result in military intervention. It can have any consequence,” Daei-ul-Eslam says.

Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13, 2019, and an earlier attack on four oil tankers off the UAE’s Fujairah port on May 12, 2019, have escalated tensions in West Asia and raised the prospect of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

The US, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have rushed to blame Iran for the incidents, with the US military releasing a grainy video it claimed shows Iranian forces in a patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from the side of a Japanese-owned tanker that caught fire earlier this month.

It later released some images of the purported Iranian operation after the video was seriously challenged by experts and Washington’s own allies.

The MKO which is said to be a cult that turns humans into obedient robots turned against Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and has carried out several terrorist attacks killing senior officials in Iran; yet the West which says cultism is wrong and claims to be against terrorism, supports this terrorist group officially.

After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the MKO began its enmity against Iran by killing over 17,000 Iranians and terrorist activities. Several members of the terrorist group and its leaders are living in France now, freely conducting terrorist activities.

The MKO terrorist group has martyred 17,161 Iranian citizens, including late president Mohammad Ali Rajayee, former prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, late Head of Supreme Judicial Council Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, late Deputy Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff Ali Sayyad Shirazi, and 27 legislators, as well as four nuclear scientists.

September 11, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mother of MEK member: The appeal to ICJ court warms my heart

Mehrangiz Rezai is an elderly mother of one of the victims of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). She has not seen her son for over 35 years.

Ali Fatehi, Mehrangiz’s son was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war when in 1988 he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. He was then recruited by the MEK and since then he has not been allowed to contact his family.
Mehrangiz attended the on-line conference held by Nejat Society last month. She addressed the audience expressing her support for the appeal made by 42 ex-members of the MEK that was submitted to the international court of the Hague.

Mehrangiz Rezai ; Mother of Ali Fatehi – MEK hostage at Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania

“I pray for the success of their appeal in the court,” she said. “This warms my heart and gives me hope for the release of my son from the Cult of Rajavi. At least, I will be able to have my son in the few days left of my life.”
Appreciating the efforts of the organizers of the conference, Mehrangiz Rezai considered it an occasion for families of MEK hostages to open up to each other about their sufferings and offer sympathy to each other.

September 9, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Female torturers of the MEK cult

In January 2021, Damien McGuinness of BBC published an investigated report on “Nazi Ravesbruck camp”, where “female SS guards enjoyed home comforts at a camp where they tortured thousands of inmates”.

Presenting testimonies of victims of these women, the author of the article suggests, “Sometimes the women are portrayed as exploited victims. At other times as sadistic monsters.” He points out a very crucial fact about female tortures who are dedicated to the cause of an ideology, “The truth is more horrifying. They were not extraordinary monsters, but rather ordinary women, who ended up doing monstrous things.”

Nazi Ravesbruck camp

What the BBC correspondent concludes is true in other ideological, extremist movements. In September, 2017, Jane Lavender of the Mirror reported on “horrifying confessions of female ISIS torturers” who revealed they enjoyed hurting women – especially in front of dads and husbands. The woman was a member of an all-female jihadist gang and told how she relished torturing her female victims in front of their distraught families. “The terrifying reality of life as a female ISIS torturer has been laid bare as a deserter reveals she “enjoyed” hurting other woman”, write jane Lavender.

female tortures in the ISIS

This was not the only report on female tortures in the ISIS. Other news outlets such as Aljazeera and Daily Mail published accounts on female jihadists who killed and tortured people in Syria, as a new horrific phenomenon in the history of human rights abuse. However, the international community must come to know that female torturers could have been found in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) since the group’s leader, Massoud Rajavi, settled the hegemony of women in his cult of personality, during the 1980’s.
The news media have not been able to cover firsthand accounts on female torturers in the MEK because the group severely controls arrivals and departures of its camps. Nonetheless, the testimonies of defectors of the group, who expose dreadful facts on maltreatments and tortures committed by MEK commanders, mostly female, against their own members, are simply accessible.

Maryam Sanjabi

Maryam Sanjabi, escaped the Cult of Rajavi in 2009. She eventually wrote a book about her experience of living inside the MEK. She writes of female commanders who interrogate and torture dissident members inside the cult-like system of the MEK.

Mahvash Sepehri

“Mahvash Sepehri was one of the major commanders to suppress every voice of dissent in the group,” Maryam writes. “About two hundred members were tried by Mahvash Sepehri. They were eventually jailed in solitary confinement, mentally and physically tortured.” Maryam Sanjabi believes that Mahvash Sepehri is the responsible for killing a girl named Nasrin Ahmadi under torture.

Mohammadreza Mobin

Mohammad Reza Mobin, former member of MEK wrote a series of articles on female torturers in the Cult of Rajavi. He revealed horrific facts on how members of the group were interrogated and tortured by female commanders. In particular, he explained about a woman named Forough Pakdel.

“Forough Pakdel was one the main commanders who tortured me,” he writes. “Along with Fazel, she interrogated me. They almost tried to kill me during the six months of solitary confinement.” MohammadReza endured the most sever tortures, as he says, only because he had criticized the leaders’ discriminatory attitude toward members.

Nasri Ebrahimi, a female ex-member of the MEK joined the group when she was only 14. It took her only two years to be a victim of torture by female commanders. “The interrogators were usually, Fahimeh Arvani, Forough Pakdel, Mahnaz Bazzazi, Mehri Haji Nezhad, Batul Rajai and Hajar Tahmasbi,” Nasrin says.
“They wanted me to confess that I was the agent of the Iranian regime and I did not want to confess such a false allegation.”, Nasrin says. “During the entire time of the interrogation sessions Mahnaz Bazzazi and Forough Pakdel were shouting at me, calling me names.”
About the human rights violations committed by female commanders of MEK, the testimonies of former members are countless. Women in the MEK commit crimes, due to the same reasons that other women in Nazi and ISIS establishments committed them.

In a radical system, moral boundaries can be simply transformed or removed. The leader who rules the system –that can be Hitler, Abubakr Baghdadi or Massoud Rajavi—allows violence. In these totalitarian systems, members are charged with strict tasks in the hierarchy. The tasks should be done without any excuse. As a result, any criminal task is normalized in the hierarchy. Victims of the violence are considered as not being human kinds.
Female commanders of the MEK are brainwashed in such a radical totalitarian system that can turn ordinary women to torturers.

Mazda Parsi

September 9, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The soldiers of despair

She was about twenty when she left Iran in 1995 together with her husband, Haidari, and her two daughters, Elahe and Roya. The couple arrived in the Netherlands, where they applied for political asylum. The government refused it. The Mojahedin contacted her husband and asked him to join. Having been never politically involved before, he hesitated. His wife explains: “they told us that if we joined the organization, they would help us obtain political asylum in Holland”. Hoping to legalize their situation, they agreed to collect funds (She uses the word “beg”) for the organization.

Three years later, propaganda and brainwashing has succeeded in convincing the couple to move to Iraq. The trap slowly closed on them. Massoumeh was forced to give her two children to an Iranian nurse, a member of the movement. In 1998, using a forged passport,she arrived in Iraq, via Belgium and Jordan. Her husband joined her one week later. The young woman states: “I was personally seduced by Maryam Rajavi’s position on women’s liberation and by the idyllic picture they painted of the situation in Iraq. But we were soon confronted by a reality that was far less attractive”.

As soon as they arrived in Ashraf camp, the Haidaris were separated from each other. They agreed, in writing, to end their married life, to break completely with their families and to write a daily report summarizing what they did, heard and saw. They conformed to the group and underwent military training. Massoumeh learned to handle many different weapons, maintain liaison between networks operating on both sides of the border and even to carry out bomb attacks inside Iran.

In 2001, this young “people’s fighter” took part in an operation in Tehran itself. She marched dozens of Kilometers into Iran, with her fellow women commandos, carrying thirty Kilograms of explosives. On the way back, she was arrested near the town of Ourumieh. After intensive interrogation in the police station,she admitted everything she knew about the organization and was sent to prison. One year later, she was freed and returned to live with her parents in Tehran. But her troubles continue: her husband is still in the Ashraf Camp and does not know that she is alive. Her “death” was announced in “al-Qamar al-Monir”: or “shining Moon”,her nom de guerre.she has had no news of her children, Elahe and Roya, aged nufrse with whom they wee placed is to longer in service. The Netherland success. They remain missing. Have they,too, been sent to Iraq?

Describing the situation among the Mojahedin at the time she left Camp Ashraf, Massoumeh says:” the fighters were weary and losing hope. Those who admitted this were harshly disciplined. I did not know that there were special prisons for Mojahedn. I learned that later from former members I met after I returned to Iran. In fact, we were very badly informed about what went on inside Iraq and knew even less about events outside the country. We had no access to newspapers,magazines or books. Our only source of news was the movement’s own television station. There were no holidays. The few times we left the camp, it was only to bring a sick person to a Baghdad hospital and return right away. All emotional ties were forbidden by the organization. For example, we were not allowed to keep photographs of our own children, write letters to them or our parents, or become friends with anyone else. Since sexual relations had been banned, women could not become pregnant or have babies”.

From the book: The People’s Mojahedin of Iran: A Struggle for what? “By Victor Charbonnier

September 8, 2021 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Sobhani spent eight-and-a-half years in solitary confinement inside MEK camp

Mohammad Hussein Sobhani spent eight-and-a-half years in solitary confinement inside the MKO’s main camp in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, from September 1992 to January 2001. He was subsequently held in Abu Ghraib prison and left Iraq in 2002.

Sobhani first came in contact with the MKO in 1977, a year before the anti-monarchy revolution. By 1979, he was working “professionally and full time” with the organization. When the headquarters of the armed wing of the organization relocated inside Iraq, he followed suit. By 1991, he had risen in the ranks of the organization and had become a member of the Central Committee. However, ever since the “ideological revolution,” when divorces were mandated, he became uncomfortable with the path pursued by the leadership. His differences with the leadership of Masoud and Maryam Rajavi and other members of the Central Committee reached a climax in 1992. Masoud Rajavi argued for remaining in Iraq regardless of the end of the Iran-Iraq war and Saddam Hussein’s defeat in the first Gulf War in 1991, he said. Rajavi still hoped that fighting between Iran and Iraq would resume, and based the organization’s strategy on such a development. Sobhani says he found the possibility of a new war highly unlikely given the dismal state of Iraq’s armed forces. Other members of the Central Committee saw his arguments as a challenge to the Rajavis’ leadership:

Mohammd Hussein Sobhani

As long as my criticisms were mild, I was left alone. But as soon as I persevered in my questioning, their behavior changed dramatically. In the beginning, I discussed my concerns personally with the leadership, Maryam and Masoud Rajavi. I also brought up my concerns with other members of the Central Committee. These discussions reached a dead-end. Once they became certain that I didn’t share their views, on August 28, 1992, they convened a meeting (neshast taiin taklif) to determine my faith and to decide if I was staying with the organization or not. The process began with intimidation, verbal abuse, and beatings. Of course, since I was a high ranking official, I was treated better than ordinary members. I was told that my criticisms and questions were just an excuse to quit the struggle. Their conclusion was that I was a quitter (borideh) and didn’t have the strength to continue the struggle any longer.

On August 31, 1992, Sobhani was moved to a prison and kept under solitary confinement for the next eight-and-a-half years.

After the first two months in prison, all of my beliefs in the organization fell apart. Up to that point I considered my differences with them as a matter of divergent political views; I wasn’t questioning the MKO’s underlying essence. I used to mark my prison walls each time I was subjected to severe beatings. There were many occasions of lesser beatings, but on eleven occasions I was beaten mercilessly using wooden sticks and thick leather elts.
Sobhani was handed over to Iraqi officials in January 2001. He spent one month in mukhabarat prison and then transferred to Abu Ghraib. He was held in Abu Ghraib until January 21, 2002, when he was repatriated to Iran in exchange for Iraqi POWs. In Iran, he was detained and interrogated by the Iranian government. After three days, he escaped from a low security detention center and fled Iran. He is currently living in Europe.

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