Camp Ashraf Inhabitants

MKO former members meet with authorities of Amnesty International

A delegation of MKO former members met with authorities of Amnesty International…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….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…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 attacked those families with a sharp cold …

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Interview with Alireza Einakian, MKO former member- Part2

..The organization tells UNAMI that the members are afraid of their coming to Ashraf and in this way the commandants prevent UNAMI’s access to rank and file members. I think that UNAMI officials should contact MKO’s low-ranking member outside Camp Ashraf so the members feel comfortable to talk to them. Once UNAMI had installed a station in Camp Ashraf, MKO/MEK/PMOI had also installed an inspection station in order to stop members going to UNAMI station. Today UNAMI has no office in Ashraf…

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Delegation asks A.I. to help rescue Rajavi cult hostages in Camp Ashraf

… The tough security measures have been carried out inside Ashraf garrison by the direct order of pmoi aka MKO.MEK leadership based in France especially 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 …

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Help the hostages taken by terrorist Mojahedin Khalq

… It is good to see that the State Department has included the name of National Council of Resistance (NCRI) in the list of terrorists as another name for Mojahedin Khalq but we believe that there should be less tolerance of this organisation and certainly more help to free the ones who do not wish to continue working for this terrorist (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) organisation. The families of the victims of this terrorist cult, some of them have not seen their loved ones for the last two decades..

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Interview with Alireza Einakian, MKO former member- Part1

..To bar the members from runaway, they control all departures and arrivals to the complex at night. You cannot simply leave the building. On the other side, the commandants have some control systems to control members, especially low-ranking members. The control is particularly heightened in collective ceremonies. There are also some patrolling cars to control all trafficking in the camp. When the Iraqis are closer to the members, they increase guards to stop the members from joining Iraqi forces..

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Iraq evacuates Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf)

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

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Letter of Miss Babaee Nezhad to the International and humanitarian organizations

… Two years ago the Nejat Society in Iran contacted my grandfather and informed him that they have learned from the ex-members returning from Iran that his son (my father) is still alive and living in the Ashraf garrison the base of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) in Iraq. That day when my grandfather came home I noticed that his eyes are full of tears. I asked instantly: “Oh grandfather! For God sake, please tell me what has happened”. He hugged me and then said: “My dear daughter, your father is alive”…

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Interview with Mahmoud Dashtestani – Part3

You can never ask about two things in MKO. Money and Massoud Rajavi….Ashraf is a symbol in the Rajavi’s cult..The psychological atmosphere ruling Ashraf has been created in a way that you never let such questions cross your mind…. MKO has based its activities on protection of this symbol, but the proper symbol links them to their terrorist background which was justified by”armed struggle”. After the disarmament of MKO and gradual defection of forces Ashraf symbol, turned into an abandoned prison

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Two more residents of Camp Ashraf escaped the cult

Two more residents of Camp Ashraf escaped the cult today at 2 O’clock am. ..Mr. Mehrdad amiri, 35, and Mr. Hojat Rafiee, 42 were captured in Camp Ashraf of MKO for more than ten years. ..They joined the families who were asleep in their camps at Ashraf gates. The two defectors were really happy to be among Iranian families without the sever control they used to bear in the cult, according to Sahar Family Foundation report.

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Mr. Einakian;another MKO Cult defector escaped Camp Ashraf

Mr. Alireza Einakian who spent 25 years in Rajavi’s cult[MKO/MEK/PMOI/NCRI] could manage to escape Camp Ashraf at 1:00 a.m. on September 7th 2010. He then submitted himself to Iraqi forces… about the situation inside Camp Ashraf, the members have to travel in the camp in groups of about fifteen in which several high-ranking members are supposed to supervise others. Most of cleaning works of the Camp’s surroundings are done by the commandants and high officials ..

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