The struggle to free their loved ones from the clutches of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq cult has been brought to Europe as two fathers visit Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, home to the MEK leader Maryam Rajavi.
Over three decades the cult leader Rajavi has banned MEK members from contacting their families for fear of divided loyalties and absconding. But the families have refused to give up on their children. Since 2003, hundreds of families undertook the difficult and dangerous journey to Iraq to find their loved ones. Mostafa Mohammadi travelled from Canada on several occasions to find his daughter Somayeh and bring her home. With no success there, he has now brought the demands of the families to the gates of the MEK’s Headquarters in France.
Somayeh Mohammadi has been held hostage by the MEK for over two decades in Iraq. After years of futile protest outside the camp, her father came to France to petition the MEK leader for her release. On the advice of his lawyer Mostafa visited the base in Auvers-sur-Oise with his other daughter Hooriyeh along with the lawyer to deliver a last formal request to Maryam Rajavi before launching legal proceedings against her. The MEK response was to send out around twenty thugs to beat up all three of the petitioners, including the French lawyer. Police intervened and Mostafa was hospitalised overnight.
After recovering from his injuries Mostafa again visited Auvers-sur-Oise on Friday 10th July to publicise his plight. This time he was accompanied by another father whose daughter is also being held captive in Iraq. Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad joined Mostafa outside the Town Hall at Auvers-sur-Oise to hand out leaflets to local people and tourists. Ghorban Ali as well as other critics had previously been subjected to attacks by the MEK for speaking out against the group in France.
After sending out the message ‘Let’s stand up together and free our children’, other families are now lined up to join them for further activities over the busy summer season.
One of the mayor’s electoral pledges was to rid the small tourist town – where Vincent Van Gogh painted some of his most famous works – of the incongruous presence of the terrorist group. Her election was a clear indication that the townsfolk wanted some action to be taken to remove the MEK from their town. Unfortunately this has not happened and the MEK still continue their activities from inside their de facto enclave beyond the reach of the French authorities even though the cult is currently under investigation for terrorist offences.
ations indicate that the long running disputes between the members and the officials inside the Council have escalated to an even greater extent so that this has become the main concern of the leaders.
exploitation of human beings specially the women inside her cult and we are the witnesses of those events
the world is a common practice and behavior in the MKO Cult.
Mohammadi family who were once supporters of the group have lost their daughter to the cult. They are still struggling to gain her release though. This is one example of many families who have lost their loved ones to this cult.
However, the next time her father went to Camp Ashraf on 6 May 2005 and the MKO conceded with the pressure of US forces that Mostafa see her daughter, many things had happened. Somaye was reluctant to see and talk to her father. She was repeating some same sentences with a frown on her face.

Following the execution of Reihaneh Jabbari the Iranian girl convicted of murdering a man Morteza Sarbandari, Maryam Rajavi called for an independent international probe into her execution. This was not the first reaction of the MKO propaganda on the case of Reyhaneh. The group’s media had launched a wide propaganda about her trial. However, their propaganda pushed her towards execution.
