ICC

Dear Mr. Karim Khan
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

I am Abolqasem Rezaei Mehrabadi, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) and one of the plaintiffs against the leaders of this organization.
I was a soldier who was captured by the MEK forces during the Iran-Iraq war. I spent about seven years of my life in the captivity of this organization. There were many people like me who were captured by the MEK during the war. We were expected to be treated according to the Geneva Convention and the rules of the International Committee of the Red Cross, but this was never the case.

During the few years that I was in the captivity of the MEK, I endured all kinds of psychological and even physical pressures along with heavy and exhausting forced labor, which still does not leave me in the form of nightmares after many years.

During this time of captivity, our bodies as well as our minds were captive. The organization always put us under the most intense brainwashing and mind control processes by holding numerous psychological sessions.
We had to work from the first hours of the day until late at night, which was part of our daily routine. After that, in a state of extreme fatigue, we had to attend confessions and self-criticism sessions and psychological pressures.

All around the headquarters of the MEK, they surrounded the embankment with barbed wire. Camp Ashraf was surrounded by high fences, and the tops of the fences were closed not to the outside but to the inside with barbed wire so that no one could escape from inside. The guards were even ordered to arrest anyone who approached the fence from inside, and to shoot if he did not pay attention. We were a number of friends who were captured together, but even though we were in the same camp, we were never allowed to meet.

For the entire seven years that I was in captivity, my family was completely unaware of my condition and had no knowledge of my fate. Regulations imposed at Camp Ashraf are not enforced anywhere else in the world, not even in the most dreadful prisons. Having any contact with our families were forbidden. Even requesting for contact had dire consequences.
Married members were forced to divorce, and many children were separated from their parents and sent to European and American countries, the fate of some of whom is unknown.

Mr. Karim Khan,
These few lines do not describe all the hardships and sufferings I endured. Please consider these cases in the investigation of the crimes of the leaders of the MEK so that it leads to a fair result and the facts become clear to everyone.

Thank you for your attention
Asghar Rezaei Mehrabadi
Surviving member of the Rajavi Cult

Asghar Rezaei Mehrabadi; the MEK former member

Mr. Karim Khan
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
The Hague – The Netherlands

Greetings,
I, Mohammad Reza Pirnazari, was confined for 10 years within the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) Camp Ashraf in Iraq, and I was under severe physical and mental pressure.
They constantly tortured me mentally, including the threat of solitary confinement and torture and execution. In large gatherings, they incited others into attacking and threatening me and putting psychological pressure on me.
As a result of the nervous tension inside the organization, I turned to sedatives and was constantly depressed until I was able to escape and return to Iran.
Now that the grounds for my complaint have been prepared, I request you to prosecute the leaders of the MEK on charges of crimes against humanity. I am ready to appear in any court with sufficient evidence to testify.

With respect,
Mohammad Reza Pirnazari
Gorgan – Golestan – Iran
Contact number: 09117939113

Mohammad Reza Pirnazari; the MEK defector

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Mr. Karim Khan

I am Majid Mohammadi. I was captured by Iraqi forces on June 25, 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war in the Shalamcheh operational area, while I was severely wounded. Due to a shrapnel wound, part of my right leg and also the nerve of my left leg were damaged. My left eye had lost about 70% of its vision. The Iraqis tortured me for two months in the south of Basra and in Baghdad, and finally transferred me to the Ramadi prisoner of war camp. I was very weak at that time and could not walk.

In 1989, officials of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) carried out extensive propaganda in the camps of Iranian prisoners in Iraq. The organization toured to and from the camp where I was, and they took me to Camp Ashraf with deception and false promises.
On the other hand, my cousin and his wife were among the officials of the organization, who also tried to attract me. As soon as I joined the MEK, operations against the Kurds in northern Iraq began. After a while, I found a complete recovery in the organization. In those days, it seems that my cousin had distanced himself from the organization due to a dispute in the organization over the forced divorces. When he saw me once, he told me that I had no place here and asked me to write a report to my supervisor to request that I be returned to Iran. I did write a letter and submitted my request. At first, they did not answer me. After a while, I was taken to a hall and a meeting was held for me in a large gathering.

Majid Mohammadi;the MEK former member

Following the meeting, the men and women officials of the MEK expressed their condolences to me and stated that my parents had been executed by the Iranian government because of my presence in the MEK. This news was very shocking and that is why I decided to stay in MEK again and take revenge on the Iranian government. Of course, I later found out that the organization had lied to me and wanted to keep me in its cultic relations with this deception.

The MEK had banned marriage and no one had the right to marry, and Rajavi stated that no one would marry for the rest of his life. The members had no right to have a family other than the Rajavis. In the cultic relations of the organization, I could never talk to my friends, and if this was done, I would have to be sharply criticized in brainwashing meetings and collective pressure, and the criticism was always accompanied by insults and humiliation and sometimes beatings.

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, families approached to Camp Ashraf to visit their loved ones, my parents were among the families too. I was very shocked to see them and realized that the officials of the organization lied to me and I lived for many years with the grief of the execution of my parents, and this is how they wanted to keep me in the organization with this dirty trick.

I asked the officials of the MEK that they lied to me all these years and with this lie great psychological pressure was put on me. The officials had no answer and said that it must have been wrong. This deception of the MEK caused me to live under psychological pressure for nearly 13 years.
After meeting with my family, I decided to run away from the organization, but while fleeing, I was arrested, assaulted and imprisoned. They tried to force me to stay in the relationship with mental and physical pressures, but I had made my decision.

During the time I was in the relations of the MEK, I lived permanently with a big lie and they ruined my youth. How they destroyed my life, my youth and my health all these years.
I am ready to testify in every court about the crimes against humanity within the MEK, and I am one of the plaintiffs of the leaders of this organization.

Majid Mohammadi,
Pol-e Sefid – Mazandaran – Iran

Mr. Karim Khan
Distinguished Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Greetings and regards,
I sincerely thank and appreciate your attention to the complaints of the victims of the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) inside and outside the country.
I respectfully convey to you that I, Ali Moradi, son of Nourmorad, was subjected to the most severe mental and even medieval physical torture and exploitation within the MEK for more than 15 years, from 1989 to 2004. I was forced to work hard and exhausting, some of which I will mention in the following:

From the moment I joined the organization, very few hours were allocated for sleep and rest, and the rest of the hours were either hard work or brainwashing sessions and stress. In most mind control destructive cults, members are prevented from getting enough sleep so that they cannot think well and therefore brainwashing methods are effective.
Intensive programs of forced labor, relocation and unreasonable carrying of heavy loads, improper cleaning of the yard and other unnecessary work were performed only to exhaust the body of people so that no one could think about their situation and show feelings for their family.
I was deprived of any telephone or correspondence with my family for 15 years, and despite repeated requests, I was never allowed to contact my family.

Before joining the MEK, I was married and my wife resided inside the country, who suffered greatly from being away from me during these years. I repeatedly asked to contact my wife, but the organization forced me to divorce her. After I left the MEK and returned to Iran I found out that my wife had divorced me due to the cult’s message to her. she was remarried, which caused me a great deal of emotional trauma at that time.
I have also suffered back injuries due to the use of physical exploitation and being forced to work hard, and I am currently suffering from severe back discomfort.

In 1995, while traveling from one area to another in Iraq, where I was one of the passengers, I suddenly heard gunshots and I was shot in the knee. I am suffering from a bullet and I am not able to walk in a balanced way, and during the investigation of the incident, I realized that the bullet hit me in the knee was shot by a member of the MEK, who is currently one of their members.
The above cases have been just a small part of my mental and physical sufferings and tortures in the organization of the MEK, so I request that the crimes of the MEK against the members be investigated immediately.

Sincerely
Ali Moradi

Ali Moradi; the MEK ex-member

Mr. Karim Khan
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Greetings and Regards,
I am Doust Mohammad Farahi Mahalleh Kalaei from Jouybar city in Mazandaran province in northern Iran. I joined the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in 1987 and left the organization in 1993.
During this time, the MEK officials never allowed me to contact my family, and my family never noticed my presence in the organization, thus leaving my family in complete ignorance.
In 1993, I decided to leave the MEK, but the officials of the organization imprisoned me in Camp Ashraf. I was tortured in prison, one of the torturers was named Majid Alamian. I was severely pressured and beaten in prison to dissuade me from leaving the organization. I was beaten every time I asked to leave. I was imprisoned in Ashraf for four months.

After that, when they faced my insistence, they transferred me to the Ramadi refugee camp and gave me a hundred Dinars. This was while a hundred Dinars was not worth it at all and they never thought about how I could live with this amount of money.
I stayed in the Ramadi camp for a year. During this one year, I ate food out of the garbage to stay alive and in this way I was able to survive.

Mohammad Reza Pirnazari

When the MEK officials handed me over to the security forces at Ramadi camp, they told them that I was an Iranian spy so as I was constantly beaten by them. In this way, they intended to dissuade me from my decision and bring me back to Camp Ashraf.

A year later, with the presence of the Red Cross in the camp, my name was written down and I was taken to the prison in the Iraqi city of Khanaqin. There, I was handed over to the Iraqi security forces and they left me at the Iranian border in the minefield to return to Iran. They thought that I could not cross the minefield and therefore I would return to the organization.However,thanks God I was able to cross the minefield and reached Iran safely.
I was under severe pressure in the MEK so much that they did not even allow me to tell my family about my health.

As a victim of the MEK Cult who has had the experience of the prisons and tortures of the MEK, I have complaints and I demand that the leaders of the MEK be punished for the crimes they committed. I am an eye witness, a living document of the crimes against humanity within the MEK.
I am ready to testify in any court about the torture and oppression that the MEK has imposed on me.

Doust Mohammad Farahi Mahalleh Kalaei
Jouybar – Mazandaran – Iran