Hassan Sharqi

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 comment

The cult of Rajavi

I am a victim of Rajavi’s violence

Hassan Sharqi, 67, is from Tonekabon, Gilan, Iran. Hassan was 26 years old, married and had a child when he joined the Iranian army to serve. He was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war when he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces in 1980. He was kept as a POW in Iraqi jail, for nine years.

In 1989, after the ceasefire between the two countries, the POWs have not been exchanged yet. It was an opportunity for the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) to recruit Iranian prisoners who were under severe pressure in the Iraqi camps.

Hassan Sharqi was deceived by the MEK recruiters to join the group. He was moved to the MEK’s Camp Ashraf. Years later, in 2012, he could manage to leave the group after 23 years of imprisonment in the MEK which was “a more horrible imprisonment than the one in the Iraqi camps”, as he says. He returned his home town but his wife had married another man.

“I am a victim of Rajavi’s violence,” he says. “I am ready to testify against Rajavi in any court.”

May 17, 2021 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

MKO defector, Hassan Sharqi returns home

Hassan Sharqi returned his homeland following the release from the Cult of Rajavi (the MKO). After settlement in a hotel in Baghdad, Mr. Sharqi contacted his family. Consequently the calls with family, particularly his old mother made him determined to get back home by the help of the governments of Iran and Iraqi.

Once he returned home He contacted Nejat Society Gilan Office. Appreciating the efforts of Gilan office; Mr. Sharqi notified that Nejat Society aided him so much in his return process.

It is worth to notify that Mr. Sharqi is a former member of the MKO. He spent 9 years as a war prisoner in Saddam Hussein’s prisons and then he was recruited by the MKO that once again captured him behind its cult-like bars for 23 years.

Hassan could manage to leave Camp Liberty (Temporary Transit Location) on August 20th, 2012.

Hoping the release of other hostages taken by the Cult of Rajavi , Nejat Society congratulates Mr. Sharqi on his release from the cult and eventually his return to his beloved family.

December 16, 2012 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Hassan Sharqi, former member of MKO left the group

Mr. Hassan Sharqi, former member of Mujahedin Khalq Organization left the group on August 22nd after he was interviewed by UN authorities. He declared his defection from the cult giving an official statement to Sahar Family Foundation:

I am Hassan Sharqi. I was born in 1954 in the North of Iran. I could manage to release myself from the criminal cult of Rajavi after 24 years of imprisonment while I was being interviewed by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on Saturday August 22nd.

I asked to leave the organization for the first time on December 22, 2008, writing a report to Mozhgan Parsaee [the then top fficial of the MKO] but my request was declined. A twelve-hour meeting was held for me in which Mozhgan, Mehri, Saeed Naqash, Samad Kalantari and Hekmat refused my demand. The second time, On July27, I signed a white paper and wrote on the foot that I confirmed my expulsion from the group. I submitted the paper to the official of my unit, Habibeh Tavoli, in order that they wrote on the top anything they wanted but this time together with Hooshang Doudkani she held a 4-hour long meeting to refuse my request for defection.

In 1989 after years of imprisonment as a war prisoner in Iraq, I thought that I would get rid of Saddam Hussein forces’ atrocities so I asked to be transferred to Rajavi’s Camp, but there I found myself imprisoned by an inhumane cult where the individuals had no right to think freely. Talking to each other was considered as a meeting so it was forbidden.

Members were all the time humiliated, verbally abused and mentally tortured for talking to their peers or having ideas against the leaders’ interests. We were even physically abused. For example, I was severely beaten, under the order of Roqayeh Abbasi, by Iraj Taleshi, Alireza Qanbari, Massoud Assadi and Mohammad Moradi because I had talked to another person at the eastern side of Camp Ashraf, outside the camp.

Besides, the cult forces members both female and male to write their thoughts and even their sexual dreams and read them to their peers in Rajavi-made sessions called “weekly Cleansing”. This way they get humiliated in front of others. Regarding forced divorces, mandatory celibacy and separation of genders in the MKO, these sessions are just a type of sexual torture.

Members of the group are deprived from any contact with the outside world including their family. Any contact with your family and any news from the outside world are forbidden.
When I first entered the group in 1989, a person named Zahra Rajabi took all the money I had collected during my 9 years of imprisonment together with my wedding ring and my necklace that were a souvenir from my family and were so precious. She told me whenever it was needed they would give it to me but they never did.

Because of the above-mentioned reasons and other reasons that I will explain thoroughly in future, I decided to escape the cult after I was provided with the opportunity in Temporary Transit Location and the help of UNHCR.

I ask the authorities of the United Nations and families of people imprisoned in both camp Ashraf and Liberty to try their best for the release of my friends of whom the majority are willing to leave the cult. In my idea, family’s presence in Iraq is a necessity since it is a stimulant for them to leave the MKO.

Translated by Nejat Society

August 27, 2012 0 comment