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Destruction of family in the Rajavi’s terrorist cult

Authors, analysts and experts on cults often express their concern over the destructive effect of cults on the foundation of family and family relations, and clarify why cults, due to some features that they all share, may not tolerate the family structure. Regarding the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), which adopts cult-like approaches and is considered a terrorist group, the situation is even worse. On the occasion of the belated International Family Day May 15, we will take a look at how the MEK views family.

The MEK terrorist group was founded in 1965 as an Islamist-Marxist group opposing the Shah. Soon after establishment, the group started its violent and armed struggle against the regime. At the time, the group was involved in liquidating the opposition along with its own members who were critics of the group. A short while after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the MEK came into serious conflict with the political system, which led them to enter an armed phase and assassinate Iranian officials and ordinary citizens. In the midst of the Iran-Iraq war, the MEK sided with Saddam, enjoyed the financial and military support of the former Iraqi dictator, and continued carrying out its terrorist operations both against Iranian and Iraqi citizens.

It was during these years that the MEK’s leader, due to failure in his military attack against Iran, decided to drastically change his approach within the group and as a result, the group took on a more cult-like dimension which continues up to now.

The MEK is a cult of personality and acts based upon a certain hierarchy which emphasizes the concept of “Revolutionary Family”. The concept is not new; however, it became more prominent in 1989 within the framework of the “Ideological Revolution”. According to this framework, all male and female members of the cult are brothers and sisters. They constitute a family, which must remain obedient and loyal to its leader. Focusing on the group’s goals, which are set by the leader, and blind obedience to the leader are superior to any sort of family ties.

How the MEK behaves towards family members

Critics of the group reason that the way MEK treats families will in fact disrupt the dynamics of the family. Statements and memoires of the group’s defectors as well as analysis of the group’s historical records all verify the views of these critics and reveal that families are, to a great extent, negatively influenced by the MEK’s militant approach.

The most fundamental measure of the MEK against families was taken after the imposed Iran-Iraq war. The group’s leader blamed families for his humiliating defeat in war. In his opinion, loyalty to family has an inverse relationship with loyalty to the leader. Therefore, the process of forced divorces began. Children were separated from their parents and banished to Europe. All women were forced into marriage with Rajavi in a cult-like ceremony and marriage was banned afterwards. It must be mentioned that since the group’s presence in Iraq, any type of contact with families had already been forbidden. These limitations existed even after the group was relocated to Albania and they continue up to now. Overall, there are very strict rules regarding families in this group which have led to chronic emotional distress of members and disintegration of family ties.

Furthermore, evidence suggests that women in the MEK are sexually exploited. Leader of the group is said to enforce strict rules about female members by limiting their personal freedom and depriving them of the right to work and receive education. Former members of the group have reported gender segregation, limitations in veiling, prevention of marriage and hysterectomy within the group.

The children growing up in the MEK are also brought up in an unconventional and strict manner. Such actions severely affect children’s well-being and growth. According to irrefutable evidence, children were forcefully separated from their parents and placed under surveillance. They were sent to some European countries. Based on interviews with the group’s defectors in Europe, the MEK sent some of the children to families, who supported the group, in order to strengthen their ties with them and also to receive financial support from European charities. This money would later be spent on the military affairs of the group. Some of the children went through ideological training and some were sent to streets to collect donations from people. These children were taught to lie and say that their parents are political prisoners in Iran or have been executed to be able to attract people’s attention. Also, in multiple cases, the children suffered malnutrition and experienced sexual violence by their new family.

Although the group was expelled from Iraq and resettled in Albania, they still continue their strict policies about families. MEK defectors believe that family ties can seriously weaken or dismantle Rajavi’s group. That is why the group’s leaders are by no means willing to change their anti-family approach because any change could lead to a huge wave of defection and shocking revelations concerning the group’s practices.

Assassinating Iranian families

This cult-like strictness in dealing with families is only part of the story of how the MEK treats families. Since the 1980s, thousands of Iranian families have fallen victim to the group’s acts of terror. The MEK assassinated a significant number of Iranian citizens inflicting irreparable emotional and psychological damages. As their assassinations targeted both males and females from all walks of life, it is perfectly conceivable that loss of a mother or father would place family members, especially the children, under unrelenting pressure.

There are also many cases where the whole family were assassinated. For example, in Iranian northern province of Gilan, the MEK terrorist group assassinated a father named Shahgaldi Almasi along with his two young sons who were farmers. Another case is that of an Arab family called Beit Salem who were all on a motorbike when they were attacked by the MEK. The attack left the parents and their two young sons crippled for life.

Other methods of assassination that the MEK used were also unbelievably inhumane. There are many instances of breaking into a house and shooting the targets before the eyes of their families. For example, MEK terrorist went to a house in Mashhad and rang the bell. A young girl opened the door and they told her to call her father to come to the door. When her father arrived, the MEK terrorists assassinated him in front of his daughter. These crimes and other similar ones have caused a great deal of emotional damage to family members, especially women and children.

Now that the MEK has targeted families, it is very important to take serious measures to reduce the emotional damage caused by the anti-human acts of this group. International authorities should pay a visit to the impenetrable camp of this group in Albania and conduct a detailed investigation. The leaders of the group should stand trial for the crimes they have committed against Iranian families and citizens. The political approach of some countries opposing Iran has caused them to turn a blind eye to such behaviors that violate human rights. The media, if focused on the dark history of the group, can uncover the truth and set free all the people incarcerated in the group. Meanwhile, families of terror victims seek justice. The International Day of Family can be a good opportunity to take note of these people and take a step to reduce their pain forever.

Habilian Staff Writers

February 27, 2024 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Trial of 104 leaders of the MEK | 10 sessions held.

The tenth and last session of this year’s largest public court of the leaders of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) was held on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024. Ten sessions of this court were held in the Justice Palace of Tehran Province in the Imam Khomeini Judicial Complex and Branch 11 of the Criminal Court. The judge of the court was Dehghan and the counselors of the court were Morteza Turk and Amin Naseri.

In the sessions of this court, which started on December 21 of this year, the indictments of 104 actual defendants and one legal defendant from the MEK was read, and the statements of the plaintiffs and informants, the families of the victims, and the defense of the defendants’ lawyers were heard. The remaining sessions of the trial will start from April 28th next year.

Certainly, the trial of the leaders of the MEK is welcomed by the entire Iranian nation, including the families whose children were deceived and taken captive by the Cult of Rajavi. Although the general question is why this trial is being held after four decades have passed since the peak of the crimes of the terrorist Cult of Rajavi, it is nevertheless worthy of appreciation and praise.

In this court, the families of the victims of terror and crimes of the MEK showed up and presented their testimonies and observations. But they are just a group of victims of this destructive cult. The MEK has other victims, which are its deceived and exploited members and their painful and suffering families.
The MEK should definitely be investigated and evaluated in a scientific way as a “destructive mind control cult” and according to the scientists of this field of research, the members of each cult are considered the primary victims of that cult.

In this court, many accusations against the MEK and its leaders were raised in the indictment, which are related to distant years, but there is no place for a number of crimes that continue to be committed by the Cult of Rajavi.

Some of the accusations that have been testified by former members inside and outside the country, are:
– Destructive Cult-like mind control (brainwashing)
– Forced divorce and celibacy
– Forced separation of children from their parents
– Child soldiers
-Deprivation of communication with the outside world, especially with the family
– Psychological repressions in inquisition meetings
– Forced labor and the most severe type of dictatorship
– Prohibition of falling in love, getting married, having children and starting a family
– Sterilization of women and their sexual exploitation by the cult leader
– Deprivation of personal freedom and occupational and financial independence (modern slavery)

Crimes like the above-mentioned ones that have been applied against the MEK members are defined as crimes in the laws of many countries, and the perpetrators are supposed to be tried and punished.

It is worth to mention that the above accusations were heard in the Iranian Judiciary. Based on the complaints and testimonies of more than 40 defectors of the MEK against the leaders of the group in Branch 55 of the International Public Court of Tehran in Shahid Beheshti Complex, headed by Judge Pourmoridi, which was held on March 7th and 8th, 2019. The complaints were examined and a final verdict was issued. Leaders of the MEK were found guilty for their crimes.

Atefeh Nadealian

February 26, 2024 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Atefeh Sebdani: the dirt on the MEK’s activities and criminality is just beginning to be told

Atefeh Sebdani, one of the children the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) whose lived experience within group has been depicted in the recently released documentary “Children of Camp Ashraf”, states that the revelations on MEK’s crimes against their own children has just begun.

Children of Camp Ashraf, directed by Sara Moien and produced by Linda Mutawi is based on testimonies of four young Swedish citizens, Amir Yaghmai, Parvin Hosseinnia, Hanif Bali and Atefeh Sebdani. The latter has also published her autobiography in Swedish language. The book is titled “My Hand in Mine” which is the story about Atefeh’s growing up with no one to hold on to but herself, of abuses made by the MEK agents who smuggled her from Iraq to Sweden and the MEK sympathizers who fostered her and her two brothers.

Prior to the release of Sara Moien’s documentary, Atefeh posted a note on her Facebook. She began with the Goteborg Film Festival’s description about the film:

“When they were children, they were taken from their parents and sent to Sweden with the aim of one day returning as warriors and overthrowing the current regime in Iran.”

Atefeh Sebdani finds the year 2024, the time for MEK children to find the courage to tell their stories:

“A few times I’ve hinted at things to be released in 2024. A few other times I’ve hinted that the dirt on the Mujahedin’s activities and criminality is just beginning to be told…”

This is what she writes about Children of Camp Ashraf:

“It is a documentary film that was recorded over several years, where I was with them for three years. We get to follow Amir Yaghmai above all, but also Parwin Hoseinia, Hanif Bali and me. Children of four Mujahedin soldiers with different destinies. I think the film festival’s text describes it well. The purpose of more or less kidnapping us to foreign followers and at the same time keeping us away from our parents was to one day be able to recruit us as warriors.”

Sebdani speaks of those MEK children who are not alive any more because they were killed in Camp Ashraf when they were recruited as child soldiers of Massoud Rajavi’s army. Hamid is one of her foster brothers who had also been smuggled from Camp Ashraf to Sweden but one day he was disappeared. Atefeh has written about Hamid’s sad destiny in her book too. Here she states:

“Some of us already as children, like Amir. Others as young adults, who never came back alive. Like my brother. Which I still have a hard time talking about.”

She promises the audience that in the documentary they get to see the story from the beginning. She speaks of the large number of MEK children who have just been motivated to tell their stories after the book and the film were released:

“Do you see, my beloved Mujahedin siblings? See, all of you out there writing to me all the way from Australia and in between? Our withheld, strangled story is slowly being told.”

Sebdani appreciates the film’s director and producer:

“Huge thanks to the incredible director Sara Moein who picked up on the clues about us and chose to start digging. You have no idea how many people’s lives you will touch and what historic victory you will contribute to. I am forever grateful to you. Thanks also to Linda Mutawi, the amazing producer who against all odds made this happen.”

Finally, she promises a roaring wave of traumatized children of the MEK who will reveal more facts about the crimes of the group leaders:

“Hold on, because we grew up, shook off our fears, found each other’s hands and like a chain around the world we are now unstoppable. Gothenburg Film Festival, wow. And then we’ve only just begun.”

Mazda Parsi

February 24, 2024 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Sara Moin: Why do the MEK protest against a movie they have not seen yet?

The director of the documentary “Children of Camp Ashraf” in an interview with Keyhan London raises a question that simply challenges the claim of democracy and freedom of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

Sara Moin, the director of the controversial documentary about the children of Camp Ashraf, was interviewed by Ahmad Rafat of Kayhan London. She was asked about the protests of the MEK sympathizers against the Goteborg Film Festival before the release of her film. “Despite the fact that the film had not been seen so far, they sent a series of emails to the festival,” Moien said. “They wanted to stop the release of the movie. I don’t know the reason…and a few days before the festival, they requested a demonstration. I don’t know why they want a movie that has not been seen to be stopped in a democratic country?”

Sara Moien insists on announcing that her film deals with a very human issue about 4 Swedish citizens. She finds the life story of the four heroes of her film interesting because despite their success in life in Sweden today, they have gone through a strange fate and a painful childhood.

The director of the documentary “Children of Camp Ashraf”, who is basically a journalist, is trying to draw the audience’s attention to a human tragedy without political bias by taking advantage of the freedom of expression that governs the country where the four protagonists live. According to Sara Moin, although there are a revolution and three wars in the life story of the characters of this film, which can involve the audience with all kinds of views and political biases, she aims to draw the attention of the audience to the painful story of about 800 to 1000 children from Mujahed parents who paid a heavy price for their parents’ political choice.

Sara Moien accurately believes that the contents related to the children of MEK are very few compared with the contents about the very organization. He pointed to the article written by the German journalist Luisa Hommerich a few years ago about former child soldiers of the MEK in De Zeit magazine, as one of the pioneering materials in raising the issue of these children. It should be mentioned that Luisa Hommerich also recommended watching the movie to the residents of Sweden before its release.

According to Hanif Heydaranjad, a journalist and former member of the MEK, more than 120 of the hundreds of children of the group who were trafficked from Iraq to Europe and North America were settled in Sweden in foster families. Therefore, it seems that Sara Moin had more options to choose her heroes, but why she went to Amir Vafa Yaghmai, Parvin Hosseinnia, Hanif Bali and Atefeh Sabdani, is an important point.

In response to this question about the number of children of the MEK, she says that compared to these four people, they were not successful people, they suffered bitter fates and even committed suicide. (Perhaps you have heard the names of Yaser Akbari Nasab and Alan Mohammadi.)

Certainly, there are former child soldiers who could be considered as witnesses of the violation of children’s rights in the structure of the Cult of Rajavi, and certainly today in various countries of the world, including Sweden, there are former children who have lived in the families of sympathizers of the MEK without the supervision of European governments. They have experienced the same pain that Atefeh Sabdani suffered.

Howeever, as Sara Moin says, these people with fragile spirits caused by sufferings and with their damaged self-confidence, do not have the courage to appear in front of the camera. A camera that intends to depict a bitter human story in a European democracy.

The screening of the documentary about the children of Camp Ashraf has just started. This controversial film will soon be shown at Tempo Film Festival in Sweden and other festivals around the world. Public opinion will watch only one part of the record of crimes of the MEK leaders, the part that demostrates the innermost corners inside the group.

As Sara Moin emphasizes, in the future screenings of her film in Stockholm, the MEK can demonstrate within the framework of democracy and freedom of speech. But you should ask them: “Isn’t it better to watch the movie first and then protest?”

Mazda Parsi

February 18, 2024 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Luisa Hommerich recommend Children of Camp Ashraf

German journalist Luisa Hommerich recommended Swedish citizens to watch the documentary, “the Children of Camp Ashraf”.

In 2021, the German journalist Louisa Homrich published a detailed article about the children of the Mujahedin Khalq in De Zite magazine, which was focused on the life story of Amin Gol Maryami, one of the former child soldiers of the group. In this article, the situation of the MEK children who were separated from their parents, smuggled to Europe and settled in Germany was discussed and eventually accusations were made against the group. As expected, it resulted in the reaction of the MEK against the German magazine.

Following the screening of the children’s documentary of Camp Ashraf by Sara Moin at the Swedish Goteborg Festival, Luisa Hommerich invited the residents of Sweden to watch this documentary on her X account:

Recommendation: If you are in Sweden, watch “Children of Camp Ashraf” at the Goteborg Film Festival. In the documentary, children from the Iranian #MEK cult speak on camera for the 1st time. (The cult has been deceiving European politicians for decades)

Luisa Hommerich recommend Children of Camp Ashraf

She also mentioned her experience in De Zeit magazine in dealing with the issue of children whose rights have been violated in the Mujahedin-e Khalq cult:
(Over 2 years ago we first broke the story that the cult allegedly trafficked children from Europe to a secretive camp in Iraq and trained them as soldiers. https://zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2021/44/amin-golmaryami-flucht-irak-volksmudschahedin-militaercamp-organisation

The #MEK/Mujahideen-e Khalq tried to sue against the article but lost on all counts 1 year ago.)

Luisa Hommerich recommend Children of Camp Ashraf

After the premiere of the documentary, Sara Moin, the director, in an interview with Keyhan London, mentioned Luisa Hommerich’s article in De Zeit magazine as a good start to deal with the tragedy of the children of the MEK.

February 17, 2024 0 comments

Nejat Publications

Nejat Newsletter No.110

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

– Hanif Bali in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf
He was one of the 120 children of MEK parents who were smuggled from Camp Ashraf, Iraq to Sweden. He was then moved between eight different foster families until he turned 18. He is a Swedish politician now because he is one of those few lucky MEK children who was not returned as a child soldier to Camp Ashraf to receive military training…

Nejat Newsletter No.110

– Amir Yaghmai in the documentary, Children of Camp Ashraf
Former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), Amir Yaghmai is one of the relief subjects of the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf. The documentary was directed by Sara Moein and will be played in two Swedish film festivals.

– Atefeh Sebdani in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf
Atefeh Sebdani debuted last year with the gripping memoir My Hand in Mine. It is a story about growing up with no one to hold on to but yourself, of abuses thatare skillfully covered up and a society that time and again fails to see the vulnerable child. But it is also a story of a stubborn burning vitality and the courage to finally break free

– “The children of Camp Ashraf” in Tempo Festival, Sweden
The documentary “Children of Camp Ashraf”, directed by Sara Moein, tells the story of the children of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) who were separated from their parents after the First Persian Gulf War under the order of Masoud Rajavi and were sent from Iraq to European and North American countries.

– The MEK agents strangled 14-year-old Zainab with her chador
Zainab Kamai was a 14 -year-old girl who had left home for congregational prayers in the mosque. She was kidnapped and suffocated by MEK agents with her own chador

– Ali Mohammad Rahimi Alashti announced defection from the MEK
Ali Mohammad Rahimi Alashti, announced his defection from the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) on New Year’s Eve. He left the MEK’s camp Ashraf 3 in Manez and joined the office of Nejat Society in Tirana.

– MEK, Saddam’s Private Army in massacre of Iraqi Kurds
Basat Ali Meshkin Faam is one of the defectors of the MEK who witnessed the MEK’s military operation to suppress Kurdish uprisings in April 1991. The testimonies of MEK ex-members have been several times confirmed by Iraqi authorities, human rights activists and journalists

– MKO stands trial after 40 years
After 40 plus years of bombings and assassinations attacks in Iran, members of the terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization or MKO are standing trial in absentia

– Mahin Najafi’s brother, behind the bars of MEK’s camp
Mahin Najafi, the sister of Mohammad Jaafar Najafi, a captured member of the Mujahedin-
e-Khalq (MEK), tells the story of her brother’s captivity and her encounter with the group.

– EuroNews Albania report on Nejat Society Albani
The international TV channel Euronews Albania participated in the event organized by the Nejat Society Albania on the occasion of Yalda night this year. The TV reporters filmed and interviewed the members and activists of the society

– letter of the CEO of Nejat Society to the authorities in the Albanian government
.. The ban on families entering Albania, which is said to have been at the request of the MEK, is still in force months after the violent and cultic nature of the MEK was exposed, and as far as the families are concerned, the conditions in Albania has not changed after June 20 and this cult is fully allowed to firstly violate the most basic human rights of its members and secondly to threaten the security of the Iranian nation from the territory of Albania.

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February 14, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

How the media can change the life of MEK hostages

As a destructive cult, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) keep its members in isolation. Members of the group has no access to the media. They are not allowed to contact the outside world by any means. The only accessible media is the group’s TV channel which censures the news in accordance with the ideology of the Cult of Rajavi. Aldo Sulollari, the Albanian journalist and a member of Nejat Society Albania, has published a piece on the Albanian Kristal TV emphasizing the impact of the media to develop human relations. In case of the MEK members, the media have so far aided the reunion of many families.
In his recent article on Kristal TV, Solullari refers to two brothers who are former members of the MEK. After the younger brother, Sarfaraz, left the group, he was never allowed to visit or call his brother Bijar who was still taken as a hostage in the MEK. However, the media finally helped them reunite after years of separation. Bijar escaped the MEK’s headquarter in Albania, Ashraf 3, last July about eight years after his brother had left.
Aldo Sulollari wrote the article in Albanian under the title “An interview that changed human relations, the truth must be ‘shouted’” :

How important is the media and its investment in society?
In the Albanian society there is a group that came here with a humanitarian shelter status and that came as a necessity of a more westernized life. Albania first opened its doors to over 300 Iranians and then over 3,000 of them stay in the Manza camp, Ashraf 3.

The MEK organization came to Albania promising their members that the world is beautiful and that they would integrate into the countries that created their agreement.
Some of them chose to leave the MEK camp, surrendering to the Albanian institutions, demanding freedom, and showing their truth.

They state that in the previous organization, they could not communicate with their families, the use of mobile phones was not allowed, and the couples who were put together were not allowed to remain under the status of husband and wife, but would be treated as strangers.
MEK had told them that if they left their camp, they would be isolated by the Albanian police, and that our institutions were harsh.

However, the truth turns out differently.
Sarfaraz Rahimi, a member of the Nejat association, stated in the media that he had sought to communicate with his brother, Bijar Rahimi, who was also in the MEK camp and was not allowed to communicate together. To connect him with the media, this story was published in the national media Euronews Albania, where his interview was broadcast. Here the media played a very important role to change the life history of the two brothers for the better.

Bijar Rahimi had been following the story of his brother, who was looking for him in the media, and felt deceived when the MEK organization had told him that your brother Sarfarazi never looked for you, but simply married an Albanian girl, and did not care about you.

Rahimi brothers, who are Baluch Iranians, reunited, and started their new life, following their passions and professions. This is proof that the media plays a very important role.

It was me again, who, together with Mr. Bijar Rahimi, once again dared to tell the Albanian public what Bijar’s life was like inside that camp, and he proves that life outside, in Albania, is fantastic, and that Albanian institutions are wonderful.
Another Iranian had seen this interview and he was Ali Zamani, he chose to live free, and understood through the media, that life is beautiful.

The media chooses its own mission, to support the truth, or to make biased political propaganda, showbiz or any other sector where it can depend.
This was a true story, how incredible is that the media chose to change life for the better.

Aldo Sulollari – Journalist, Nejat Society Albania – Kristal TV – Translated by Nejat Society

February 13, 2024 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

This film is a proof against the MEK lies about Ashraf children

Amir Vafa Yaghmai, a former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and one of the 4 people who appears in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf, responded to the accusations of the group against the film’s crew in an interview with Mihan TVI. He announced his willingness to answer the audience’s questions in order to reveal the true nature of the MEK.

According to Yaghmai, it took the film makers about six years to make the film. He states that the documents related to the budget for making the film and the necessary legal permits are available in Sweden.

Amir Vafa Yaghmai, is in his early forties, married and has two children. He is an environmental expert and a citizen of Sweden. Among the 4 people whose lives have been documented in the Children of Camp Ashraf, Amir is a person who, like many other children of the MEK, was sent back to Iraq as a child soldier at the age of 14 and served in the so-called National Liberation Army of the group. In this video, he talks about friends who, like him, were sent back to Camp Ashraf in Iraq while they were under legal age and eventually, they were killed there.

Amir Vafa Yaghmaei, a former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq

According to Amir, he and others involved in the film expected the hostile reaction of the MEK to the release of the film, but the reaction of Rajavi’s organization was more aggressive than what they expected, particularly because this “astonishing” reaction occurred before watching the content of the film. In his opinion, the fear and terror that leaders of the MEK feel is originated from the truths that the former children of Camp Ashraf have testified in this documentary. This indicates an important point: the organization’s approach to freedom of expression.

Amir Vafa Yaghmai believes that the smuggling of the MEK children to Europe and North America was part of the project of family separation in Rajavi’s Cult, which had previously been started with forced divorces, and the first Gulf War provided Rajavi with a golden opportunity to complete his project.

This former child soldier provides thought-provoking details about people who protested against the screening of the film in front of the movie theater and inside it. For example, the person who spoke as a speaker for the crowd of protesters is Mohsen Rezaei, with the organizational nickname of Habib. He is the very person who is responsible for persuading him and other child soldiers to return to Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform their “historical duty” and to continue the path of their parents. Amir considers this person a criminal who deserves to be tried in a court.

Amir Yaghmai gives other information about the signatories of the so-called letter against the filmmakers, which shows that each of these people has a dark background in the organization, and due to their scandalous cases, they were forced to obey the organization’s orders. For example, he mentions Hossein Razavi, who was accused of sexually assaulting boys in Camp Ashraf.

Also, Amir knows two former child soldiers who shout in the movie theater and introduce themselves as children of Ashraf and consider the content of the film as a lie made by the Iranian government; He considers them as his comrades, who are victims of the deceitful structure and slanderous conditions of the MEK.

Based on Yaghmai’s testimonies, he and three other people whose lives have been documented in this movie, according to the contract they signed with the producers, they did not receive any money for appearing in the movie.

He expresses his happiness that the issue of child soldiers of the MEK has been brought up in European societies hoping that in the future, foreign audiences will be more aware of the facts of inside the MEK and the bitter stories of the children who survived this cult. He considers it as his responsibility to talk about the suffering that has happened to the children of the MEK, both among the sympathizer families abroad and in Camp Ashraf. He declares his readiness to spread awareness about this as much as possible.

February 12, 2024 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Yaser, a murdered child soldier of Camp Ashraf

Following the screening of the Children of Camp Ashraf documentary at the Swedish Goteborg Festival, Nejat Society interviewed the family of one of the child soldiers who was killed inside Camp Ashraf. Reza Akbari Nasab, an active member of Nejat society and the uncle of Yaser Akbari Nasab, told us about the fate of Yaser, his young nephew whose story has been heard in the testimonies of a large number of defectors of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

Reza’s 2 nephews and 1 niece were among the children of Camp Ashraf. Yaser, Musa and Fatemeh were the three children of Reza Akbarinasab’s brother, Morteza, whose lives were awfully affected by the cult-like violence of Rajavi because of their father’s membership in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Among these three children, Yasser suffered the most traumatic fate. He was tragically killed in Camp Ashraf.

According to Akbari Nasab, Yaser got involved with the MEK since he was three years old. As a child, he was separated from his parents under the order of Masoud Rajavi and was smuggled from Iraq to Europe along with hundreds of other children. He and his siblings were placed in the MEK’s orphanage buildings in Germany.

Yeser’s sister, Fatemeh, could not stand the abuses in the MEK’s team house in Germany and escaped the house, few years later. According to Reza Akbarinasab, the MEK commanders immediately smuggled Yaser and Musa back to Iraq, to prevent their escape from the cult. Like many other children of Mujahed parents, Musa and Yaser were recruited as soldiers of the group’s so-called Liberation army. The two teenagers were given military uniforms and were taught military trainings.

Referring to evidence from defectors of the MEK, Reza believes that Yasser was not happy with his conditions at Camp Ashraf from the beginning, and his dissatisfaction caused him to be subjected to cult-like violence. Finally, in June 2005, in a suspicious incident that seemed to be self-immolation, he was killed.

Yaser died soon and did not survive the Rajavis’ violence to share his life story with us like the 4 young people who share their lived experience in the MEK, in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf. His brother, Musa could manage to leave the group when it was located in Camp Liberty, Iraq.

Yaser was no more than 25 years old when he died. His two siblings managed to escape from the organization, but Yaser, who was not interested to stay in Camp Ashraf, became a victim of Masoud and Maryam Rajavi’s conspiracies to run their cult.

February 10, 2024 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

A letter to my brother; hostage at the MEK Camp

Dear Hadi,
I hope you are well and that there is still something left of your love and affection for Iran, Semnan and your family.

We are fine here. After many years of work, effort and service, I am now retired and I am having fun in the garden. But believe me, we will never forget you. I always think of your return. I always wonder even though you were a person of thought and logic, how can you spend your life in vanity and nonsense in this cult-like group? And with what logic do you convince yourself?!

Javad Nasiri-the brother of MEK hostage Hadi Nasiri

After years of wasting your life in vain, isn’t it time for you to think a little and make a decision with the courage that I used to know in you and release yourself from this prison?
Even if you don’t come to Iran, at least decide freely for your future and live wherever you like outside of the Mujahedin Khalq’s prison so that we can communicate with each other freely and easily whenever we want.

When you were here before, we had high hopes for your future, but I don’t know how and with what motivation you fell on this path.
However, there is still time to make a decision and we are impatiently waiting for good news from you. I hope that one day soon I will hear the news of your release from this hellish organization and I will be able to hear your voice and see your image freely.
Hoping that day, I entrust you to God.

Your brother, Javad Nasiri

February 6, 2024 0 comments

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