Interviewed by reporters, Leila Kiukan spoke of a new light of hope that has sparked among families of the MEK members. In the opening ceremony of Colonel Soraya, Leila who has been deprived from having father said that she was pleased that she and her family have recently felt comfortable to talk about his father as a member of the MEK because they know that he is a prisoner in the Cult of Rajavi. She was not informed that his father was sick in the isolated camp Ashraf 3 of the MEK. So, she was hopeful to take actions to release her dad from the group.

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Leila was also optimistic that his father and other members of the MEK would see the film and would think about their expectant families and eventually would make their mind to leave the group. However, the authorities of the MEK took Rahim as a hostage until the last day of his 78 years of age. He passed away on February 19th in the MEK while his family were looking forward to his return for 43 years.

Rahim Kiukan was born in 1945. He left his family in Iran to join the MEK in 1981. He was married and had 4 children at the time. Leila was only two years old.

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Leila’s father; Rahim Kiukan who as a supporter of the MEK was brainwashed by the instincts of the MEK cult left his family in 1981 and joined the group in Iraq. The family have had no news of him since then.
A 10 cm family photo, is the only memory, Leila has of his father.

A court session has been held in Tehran in March 2021, to look into the complaints filed a by a group of the MEK ex-memebrs, who have managed to leave the group after several years of being under torture and oppression by the cult leaders. Leila participated the court session as a victim of the group. Here is part of the interview with Ms. Kiukan:

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I am Leila Kiukan, daughter of Mr. Rahim Kiukan, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization also known as MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult residing in the group camp in Albania.

I am 42 years old and I have not seen my father since I knew myself. I was a two-year-old child when my father left us and joined the MEK.
Reports from Albania and from the MEK camp indicate that my father is under intense pressure and control from the Rajavi Cult elements. My father is not allowed to communicate with others. He is not allowed to contact his family the same as other members in the group.
Members of the MEK in Albania do not enjoy the slightest human rights and have no right to communicate with the outside world. The way of life and sufferings of the group members and the way the leaders treat members is a clear example of violation of basic human rights.
We should have the right to see and embrace my father after forty years. The cult leaders do not allow us to have any contact with my father.
I ask you on behalf of my family, especially my suffering mother to help us visit my father.

Your excellency,
The final verdict of the Tehran International Court of Justice along with the due documents of the complaints of 42 former members of the Rajavi Cult have been submitted to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague for your consideration and action.
I urge you to expedite the investigation of this case and bring the criminal leaders of the MEK to the international justice.

Sincerely,
Leila Kiukan
Tehran

Leila Kiukan; daughter of Mr. Rahim Kiukan, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization

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I’d love to hear your voice. I’d love to see you. I’d love to take your hands. I guess that your hands must be very strong because of the hard job you had. I’d love to take these hands and feel you and believe that you are here.
I wont retreat. I search for you. I send you all my positive vibes and I know that you will receive my vibes where ever you are in this world. I am looking forward to the day I see you. This is my desire.

Today, I am with my son. This is my son. Your youngest grandson. Amir Hessan. He is seven. He is my younger son. My older one is Amir Hossein. He is seventeen. We are really counting the days until we can see you.

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Mr Edi Rama,
Honorable Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania
Greetings and best regards
We, the extended family of Mr Rahim Kiukan – who is based in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) camp in Albania – including his wife, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law, 2 daughters-in-law and 7 grandchildren – have been informed that he has been trying to make contact with his family for years but has been prevented from doing so by the MEK.

According to the information we obtained, he is now seriously ill and in quarantine due to the physical and psychological pressures that are generally placed on disaffected people in the MEK seeking contact with their families, and he is still not allowed to communicate with his family.
We also learned that he had been severely pressured to take a public stand against his family, who have been working tirelessly to obtain any information about him, and to denounce their actions, which he refused to do, and he is therefore placed under double pressure.

Rahim, 78, left Iran in September 1981 in support of the MEK at the behest of the organization and eventually went to Iraq. He was then transferred to Albania with other members of the organization. Like other members, he has no right to communicate with the outside world, especially family and friends.

During these years, we made great efforts and sent many letters to Albanian government officials and international and human rights organizations, asking them to help us contact Rahim and get information about his condition, but we did not get any results from these efforts.
We urge you to help us in any way possible to establish a connection with Rahim Kiukan, who is a prisoner of the MEK in Albania and who has been deprived of any right to communicate and is quite ill in old age, so that we can move beyond our worries.

Yours Sincerely,
Leila Kiukan on behalf of the family
Phone: + 98-9127103706

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For four decades, Rahim Kayukan has been a member of the Mujahedin Khalq and is in the group’s camp in Albania now. He is one of the thousand Iranians who are kept under the cult-like structure of the Mujahedin Khalq. Rahim was a flight technician of the Iran National Airlines when he was recruited by the MEK. What has stopped Rahim from contacting his wife and children during these long years?

It may seem strange how intelligent people can get caught up in such a bizarre and dangerous cult like the MEK. But the fact is that cults target individuals throughout their life spans and across all socioeconomic groups and backgrounds.”Regrettably, it is impossible to quantify how many people are involved in potentially damaging cultic religions or similar ideological commitments,”Doni Whitsett & Stephen A. Kent assert in a paper on”Cults and Families”.

The authors of the article, referring to a large number of comprehensive books and researches on the issue, attempt to raise the awareness in ways that facilitate the ability of professionals to evaluate the impact of cults on some people who get trapped in these cults. They focus on both families within the cults and families outside of cults that are impacted by the cultic involvement of one or more of their members.

According to Whitsett and Kent,”A frequent consequence of cult involvement—and one that may have dramatic implications for diagnosis and treatment of former members—is the assault that these groups make upon family units among their adherents“. The evidence is officially published on the MEK-run websites from time to time, particularly after, each family member of the MEK adherents try to call on human rights bodies and file appeals against the MEK leaders.

In case of Leila Kayukan, her recent testimony in court made the MEK propaganda agents assault her family by accusing her of being dishonest about her father. This is an official position taken by the MEK vitrines in the social media which is exposed to the outside world. Not mentioning the way they treat members and their families inside the isolated camps of the Cult of Rajavi.

The authors of”Cults and Families”, believe that cult leaders use several factors to break the bonds between members and their families.”These factors include intensive resocialization into the new, deviant beliefs and behaviors; the demonization of people’s pre-cult lives; intense punishment and shaming regimes; restrictions on exogenous social contacts; heavy financial and time commitments; and constant demands to value group commitments over family considerations.”

According to the article, cult leaders impose various regressive techniques on their members that interfere with their ability to critically assess their situations. Authors also assert that the most virulent forms of regression.This kind of treatment demonstrate the disordered personalities of the cult leaders. however, probably reflect the disordered personalities of some leaders. They present several examples of cult leaders who suffer from various forms of psychological dysfunction.

“Many groups attack the formation of parent–child bonds by geographically separating children from their parents,”they state.”For example, various Eastern-based religious groups operate educational facilities back in their home countries, and often Western followers send their children to these overseas facilities for schooling. Consequently, children and parents see each other very infrequently, as distant strangers assume child-rearing and educational responsibilities. The children, therefore, cannot rely upon their parents in times of need.”

In addition to children like Leila and her siblings, there have been many children who were taken to the MEK camps by their parents but later on they were separated from them. then distanced from them. The number of children who have been separated from their parents by the MEK leaders mount to over 700. In just one cargo, over 300 children were separated from their parents in Camp Ashraf and were transferred via Jordan to Europe in 1990. The horrible fates of these children should be considered as cases of child and teen abuse.

Moreover,”similar threats to those directed against parent–child relationships also exist against spousal relationships”. The authors of the paper suggest,“In highly restrictive groups, strong marriages challenge leaders’ ability to control and receive the constant attention of the two partners. Moreover, couples are likely to establish private confidences—to share intimate feelings, dreams, desires, and perhaps doubts—all of which threaten paranoid leaders and evoke envy in those who have narcissistic and borderline personality disorders.”Therefore, forced divorces and mandatory celibacy in the MEK are definitely the sign of Massoud Rajavi’s personality disorders.

Thus, Rahim Kayukan and hundreds of his peers are trapped in the Cult of Rajavi. They are not allowed to talk and even think about their family. They are under daily pressure to denounce any relationship with the world except with the orders of the leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. This is always mentioned in the testimonies of former members of the group and confirmed in the article too.

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“Often groups require members to reveal their supposed deficiencies and shortcomings in assemblies, meetings, or other public settings,”Whitsett and Kent write.”Members, therefore, are trapped in double binds. On the one hand, if they go public with doubts or private opinions, then others will attack and possibly expel them. On the other hand, if they withhold their private (and possibly negative) thoughts, then they likely feel deceitful and inadequate to the tasks of their groups’ missions. Thus, many members are locked in inner battles between self-protection and group solidarity. Because they are torn in these ways, it is exceedingly difficult for them to provide emotional and cognitive guidance to children (not to mention to other adults).”

It is clear that, members of MEK have no way out of the Cult-like system of the group. They are certainly live cases of human rights violation that the International community is responsible to rescue them before irreparable damage is taking its toll.

Mazda Parsi

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We, the family of Rahim Kiukan, including his wife Behjat Seddiqi and his children Mozhgan, Mehran, Mohsen, and Leila Kiukan and his grandchildren (a total of 12 individuals), want to lodge a complaint against the Albanian government under the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance of which the Albanian government is a signatory.

Rahim Kiukan left Iran in 1981 to join the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in Iraq. We were unaware of this for years until those who left the organization and came back to Iran informed us that he was at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. We have not had any contact with him or any information about his condition for nearly 40 years now.

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Years later, we were informed that all the members of this organization, who were in Camp Ashraf and then Camp Liberty in Iraq, had been transferred to Albania to a closed and remote camp where the residents could not be reached under any circumstances. Some former members have reported the presence of Rahim Kiukan in the camp.

We wrote letters to the Prime Minister and other Albanian authorities, as well as European officials, asking for information about Rahim Kiukan. We also signed a petition with other families addressed to the Albanian government requesting contact with our relatives at the MEK camp in Albania. This petition had more than 11,000 signatures. Unfortunately, there was no reaction from the Albanian government.

We also prepared letters and video clips addressed to Rahim Kiukan and published them in cyberspace so that he might see or hear them and give news about himself to his family after four decades, but unfortunately there was no news. We are aware that MEK members in their camp in Albania have no access to the outside world.

During this time, we have faced many legal problems regarding the properties of Rahim Kiukan, which can only be resolved with power of attorney from him.
We request the relevant international body to address this issue. We would like to find Rahim Kiukan, who has been missing for four decades, and connect him to his elderly and ailing wife and his children.

Family of Rahim Kiukan
Tehran, Iran

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Strong relationships will help us how to trust others and keep a positive attitude towards others.Family members usually share their feelings in different situations.

Destructive cults like the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) endeavors vigorously to break family ties. The consequences of cutting links with family include a world of distrust full of feeling of insecurity.

A family makes all its members feel safe and connected to one another. It provides them with the comfort of having people by their side during tough times, helping them to manage and control the stress. A family allows its members to feel safe, protected, accepted and loved despite all shortcomings. Families are the basic units of the society that teach children about relationships. Now imagine the children who lived and grew up in a cult-like system. Children in the MEK – who are now in their thirties or forties—do not know how to build trust in others.

Family members share both good and bad times together; conflicts in family teach children a respectful way to resolve problems in the future, what the younger members of the MEK have never experienced.

The MEK leaders block communications with the outside world, particularly families are labeled as enemies of the group, and are considered”agents of the Iranian Intelligence”and eventually the enemies of their children! However, families who are inside the MEK camp live separately. Spouses were forced to divorce. No parents are allowed to live with their kids. No sibling is allowed to socialize in the camps unless it is the New Year’s celebration.

This is part of the regulations of every destructive cult. In March 2020, Glenn Stok published his experience of releasing his sister from the notorious religious cult, Scientology in We Have Kids website. He clarifies that it is impossible to communicate with a family member because they are brainwashed to the extent that healthy communication fails.”They may also be threatened and afraid to share their feelings with other family members who want to help,”he writes.

Just like the families of the MEK hostages, Glenn Stock believed that his loved sister needed help to get out of the cult. So he waited for an opportunity to break through and take his sister out. He regrets that their father died without saying goodbye to his daughter.”I witnessed this, and it wasn’t pleasant,”he writes about the anti-family rulings of the cult.”My dad was classified as a Suppressive Person because he attempted to obstruct the progress of his daughter’s training within the cult. His attempts were met with hostility that created anxiety for him and the rest of us. He left this world with deep emotional stress over having lost his only daughter.”

This is the traumatic fate of many mothers and fathers of the MEK members. So many of them died before they could even have a short phone call with their children in the MEK. Just a few examples of the recently deceased parents are the followings: The mother of Mohammad Hamid Atabay, the father of Bizhan Dehdashtnai, the mother of Javad Abdi, the father of Mohammad Javad Nowruzi, the mother of Manour Ramhormozy.

While Stock’s sister could come for the funeral of his father, standing distant from the family, members of the MEK have never been informed about the death of their parents. Stock could finally find the”loophole”to talk to his sister at the funeral of their aunt but families of the MEK hostages have no way except writing letters to the International bodies and Albanian authorities. They even publish videos speaking to their loved ones but they know that they are isolated and will not receive their messages. Nevertheless, they do not get tired of pursuing the case of their loved ones imprisoned inside the cult of Rajavi.

However, Glenn Stock knows that some destructive cults prevent any possibility for their members and their families to communicate.”If you have a family member or a friend in Scientology, or any religious cult, and you’ve lost the ability to communicate, plant that seed and wait for the opportunity to help”, he suggests.”Do it before it’s too late, and be ready to do whatever you can when the call for help arrives.”

By Mazda Parsi

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His wife, Ms. Behjat Sediqi, raised their children Mozhgan, Mehran, Mohsen and Leila with great difficulty in the absence of their father. She was both a mother and a father to their children. The children are educated and married and have jobs and children, and of course they always felt and feel the father’s absence in their lives. No information was available on Rahim Kiukan during these years.

His daughter Leila was only two years old when Rahim left Iran.”My father and I have never heard each other’s voice”, she says. Leila has no memory of her father. Only an old photograph of his father’s youth remains, which she has enlarged, colored and framed.

Rahim Kiukan is currently in the MEK camp in Albania. He is not allowed to visit or contact his family after 39 years. Some former members have provided news and information about him to his family. He now has 7 grandchildren. Does he know about it?

Mozhgan and Leila came to the office of the Nejat Society in Tehran to get news from their father and take it to the rest of the family. They also gave a video message so that it might somehow reach the father and he could at least write a letter to them.

Mozhgan says in a message to his father Rahim:”I want to know why the MEK does not allow the members to contact their families. They can have at least one call with their families and ask them how they are and let them know what they are doing”.

And Leila tells her father:”It is the just right of a daughter to hear her father’s voice for the first time at the age of forty-one, and I wish this right exists for you and to be considered for us so that we can communicate with you”. She continues: “My mother is old now and we miss seeing you,”

Writing setting by: Atefeh Nadalian

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