At the beginning of the hearing, the judge asked the plaintiffs’ lawyer to take the stand and make his statement. Massoud Maddah said: The endless killing of children, men, women, young and old, and civilians is just a small part of the brutal crimes committed by mercenaries who were deceived by the leaders of this terrorist group. If we examine the history of the last few hundred years of Iran, we have never had mercenaries fighting for a foreign enemy and against the Iranian people, committing all kinds of brutal crimes and taking pride in these crimes, and worse, calling these crimes liberation and freedom-seeking.

Maddah reminded: The MKO had three types of cooperation with the Iraqi Baath regime during the 8-year imposed war on Iran. Military cooperation, espionage and intelligence cooperation, and supervision in the killing of the Iranian people. One of the separated members of this group, who is also mentioned on page 249 of the indictment, states that in explaining the world, Massoud Rajavi named Saddam and the sheikhdoms of the region as dictators and reactionaries of the region and called them aggressors, but when he issued a joint statement with Tariq Aziz [Saddam Hussein’s Minister], the analysis and theory changed. This was an example of Massoud Rajavi’s contradictory behavior.

The lawyer stated that numerous documents indicate that Massoud Rajavi had effective cooperation with the Iraqi Baath regime; while he considered this regime as reactionary and dictatorial. “This shows that this person’s entire behavior is deception, deceit, and contradiction,” he added.

Maddah told the court: The MEK claim to be liberating while they have killed, imprisoned, tortured, bombed, and even murdered two-year-old and one-year-old and eight-month-old children in Iran. Are they liberators or a terrorist group? In international law, the characteristics of a liberation movement or army include the independence of the country, the support of the people, and targeting legitimate targets. Not entering a house, martyring a two-year-old child, and then killing his parents. Liberation movements and armies observe international law and the rules of war.

He asked the court to refer the case to an international law expert, so that the issue can be clarified clearly.

Fathollah Eskandari former member of the MEK took the stand as an informed person. In Rajavi’s prison and organization, torture, inhumane killings, and severe mental and physical pressure were applied,” he told the court. “Many members were subjected to severe pressure.”

Eskandari said: “I worked in the repair shop of the MEK’s camp. Whenever we begged them to leave the group, it was as if they were giving us a choice between death and joining them: either get killed or leave!”

Samad Eskandari, another defector of the MEK who appeared at the stand told the court: On various occasions and in collective meetings, we heard Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the MEK, confess many times that he had received all the war equipment, tanks, cannons and other military equipment from the Iraqi army. In numerous joint meetings with Saddam Hussein, Rajavi convinced him to donate military equipment and financial aids.
“The MEK acted as the fifth column of the Iraqi army in operations against the Iranian forces and were in fact at his disposal like a special unit of Saddam’s army,” stated Samad Eskandari.

Hadi Shabani was also a defector of the Cult of Rajavi who spoke at the court. He recounted the MEK operation called Chelcheragh that was logistically sponsored by Iraqi army. “Because Iranian scouts were aware of us, we worked at night and stayed in the trenches that belonged to the Iraqi forces during the day,” he recalled. “The Iraqi army had given us these trenches.”

He added: By the night of the operation, we had two Russian 130 cannons and two 122 cannons, two of which were in the hands of the organization’s women and the other two were in the hands of our own forces. After Rajavi announced the operation, we were unable to fire much, because the cannons were both old and did not function well, and they went out of range very quickly. The important point is that in this operation, as the organization itself advertises and can be seen in their films, there was a lot of fire, while we ourselves knew that we did not have Katyushas or anything else. We only had four cannons. Of course, we later said that we didn’t have all these cannons and Katyushas because we hadn’t received the necessary training yet. Then they announced that these forces were the Iraqi army who had come to support us to carry out the operation, which they announced near morning had entered Mehran territory.

Then, Doost Mohammad Farhi, a defected member of the MEK, appeared on the stand as a witness and swore to tell the truth in court. He explained about Chelcheragh operation: I was also an infantryman in Operation Chelcheragh. During this operation, we were in the Mehran region for 2 days. The organization brought tanks to the Iranian border and left them at the border, and captured a number of personnel carriers and tanks inside Iran. All of these operations were with the help of Baathist forces. Baathist forces provided support from a distance. We also handed over the captured tanks to Baathist forces.

The next session of the court will be held on October 7th, 2025.

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Maddah, the attorney of the plaintiffs once more presented the cases of victims of the Israeli attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists. He explained that victims of the attacks are considered as victims of a collaboration between the MEK and the invading enemy and then, this is a crime according to the laws.

Nezhat Shaban Azad is the wife of Fereidoon Abbasi Davani, the nuclear scientist who was killed in June 13th attacks. She took the stand at the court and explained how her husband was killed by the explosions at that night.

According to his wife’s testimonies, Fereidoon Abbasi was thrown out in the street from the 13th floor of their residential building. A neighbor, a retired man, was also killed.

Shaban Azad told the court that her husband had survived a first Israel-MEK led attack in 2010. He noticed the magnetic bomb that a motorcycle rider placed on their car.

She said: “The first time the Zionist regime attempted to assassinate my wife (15 years ago), we filed a complaint against the Zionist regime, the MEK, and the US government because Israel had officially claimed responsibility for the assassination. At that time, our lives were severely affected, and my wife and I were forced to separate our workplaces for greater security. But this time, we were attacked in our own home. Violation of the privacy of individuals’ homes is absolutely unacceptable, and I am filing a complaint against it.”

This complaint is still ongoing and Abbasi family have not been informed of the outcome yet.
Anne Singleton, a British citizen who was a member of the MEK for 8 years, took the stand as a witness.

“I have known the MEK organization for 47 years,” she addressed the court. “I was one of its supporters for twenty years and I have been its enemy for twenty years, and I have written books about the MEK.”

“Saddam’s Private Army” and “The Life of Camp Ashraf” are two of her books on the MEK.
“I left the MEK because I realized that they were people who influenced people’s minds,” she said. “After leaving them, it took me a while to get better, and after I felt better, I created a website called Iran Interlink.”

Base on Singleton’s testimonies writing in both English and Persian on her website, her intention was to bring the social and political situation of the MEK and their destructive ideas into limelight.

About the recruitment process the MEK agents use to recruit her, Singlton said: “Their recruitment and brainwashing process started in such a way that they sent messages and constantly asked me to do tasks so that I didn’t have time to think and figure out where I was going and what I was doing. Until in 1992 they asked me to come to Iraq for military training.”

She added: “For 10 years I had a different life. In one aspect I was a British person with a job, family and friends and in another aspect I was addicted to the MEK, I did whatever they wanted and I couldn’t separate myself from them and after 10 years in 1989 I had a personal crisis and in this personal crisis I had to choose one and I chose the MEK, the MEK separated me from my family and I had no contact with my family anymore.”

Singlton explained why the MEK recruits foreign nationals: “I was in the MEK’s team house in London and also in their team house in Sweden. They took me to Iraq for three months. They said that was for military training, but they didn’t use me as a trained person. They had people more trained than me for their operations. Instead, they used me as a passport. I say passport because Saddam paid them money for each passport.”

Ann Singleton (Ann Khodabandeh) married another MEK defector, Massoud Khodabandeh in Londen. Massoud Khodabandeh has previously attended the trail of the MEK and its leaders.
The next court session will be held on September 4th, 2025.

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At the 36th public session of the trial, held Tuesday, at Branch 11 of Tehran Province’s Criminal Court One, presiding Judge Hojjatoleslam Amir-Reza Dehqani announced that MEK operatives had coordinated with Israeli intelligence by gathering data on traffic flow near Kermanshah’s Farabi Hospital and passing it on to the regime in Tel Aviv. The intelligence was used to carry out a deadly strike on the hospital.

Judge Dehqani opened the hearing by condemning Israel’s actions and praising the Iranian Armed Forces for defending national sovereignty in the face of foreign-sponsored terrorism. He also expressed condolences to the families of those killed in the recent war, declaring:
“We are witnessing a new phase of hegemonic aggression aimed at destabilizing independent nations by assassinating their intellectual and scientific leaders. These acts are designed to uphold an unjust global order maintained by arrogant powers.”
Daughter of martyred scientist demands justice

Zohreh Abbasi Davani, daughter of late nuclear scientist Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi Davani—killed in the recent Israeli-led assault—testified in court, calling for accountability in a prior 2010 assassination attempt on her father.
“The second attack claimed my father’s life, re-injured my mother, and killed a neighbor. Twenty-eight families were displaced. My father was not a military figure—he was a university professor devoted to the country’s scientific progress.”

Following her statement, Judge Dehqani revealed that new documents and testimony submitted by the second defendant showed active cooperation between MEK members and Israeli operatives, particularly in identifying and targeting Iranian nuclear scientists. He said the evidence would be reviewed in full and, if warranted, referred back to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Widow of another assassinated scientist: MEK targeted Iran’s scientific core

The widow of Dr. Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, another prominent Iranian nuclear physicist assassinated in a separate incident, also testified.

“Ten days before his death, my husband showed me emails and satellite images of nuclear sites sent by the MEK. When he refused to engage, they killed him.”

She added: “The MEK has betrayed the Iranian people since the Revolution. My husband’s killing wasn’t just a personal loss—it was an attack on the nation’s scientific backbone. It risks setting back Iran’s intellectual development for generations.”
Concluding her testimony, she formally pressed charges: “I demand that those within the MEK responsible for these crimes be held accountable.

Justice must be done

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Judge Dehghani once more addressed the host countries of the defendants, saying: “According to international laws, terrorist crimes are separated from the rules on extradition of criminals. Based on Article 11 of the UN Convention on the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, these charges are excluded from the list of political charges and, regarding the extradition of the defendants, they do not enjoy the protection of the impossibility of extraditing political criminals.

According to Article 11 of the UN Convention on the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, none of the crimes stipulated in Article 2 of this Convention can be considered as extraditable crimes or legal cooperation between the parties. In Articles 1 and 2 of the 1997 European Union Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, if the perpetrator is arrested, he is tried or extradited.”

In the 34th session, Massoud Maddah, the plaintiffs’ lawyer filed a criminal complaint against the second defendant, Massoud Rajavi. Based on the testimonies of two members of technical staff of the flight that carried Rajavi to Paris, Massoud Rajavi was armed during the flight trip. He and his comrades forcefully stop the crew at gunpoint and take them onto the plane, effectively carrying out a hostage-taking and flight high jacking.

Iraj Salehi former member of the group, the then personal bodyguard of Massoud Rajavi, testified about the flight highjack. He stated that Massoud Rajavi admitted the fact in his speeches during the meetings in Camp Ashraf in 1994.
Three family members of victims of the MEK’s terrorist acts, also testified in the court, describing how their loved ones were killed by the MEK terror operators.

Mohammad Reza Goli was another former member of the MEK who testified about the MEK’s operations in Iran’s border areas in 1993, Mortar fire by MEK terror teams between 1998 and 2001.

In the end, the judge declared that the next session will be held on June 10, 2025.

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Judge Dehghani, condoling the Shahid Rajaee Port incident, said: “What measures the power of countries is their human resources. A factor that is more important and colorful than other factors. In developing countries, the presence of human resources is a factor in the development of that country, and therefore, the assassination of human resources is considered the most important soft power source of countries, a power that cannot be replaced in any way. Today, many terrorist organizations target the most important source of power production of a country, which is human resources, in order to hold countries back from development and a constructive role in global positions. This is why the assassination of people in various forms is one of the most horrific acts among countries; and this is so unacceptable that it has caused no country, even if it is a terrorist state, to openly support terrorist groups.”

According to the judge, throughout the world, international organizations and the United Nations have adopted numerous conventions to combat terrorist acts that cause terror and fear, and countries even ostensibly declare their readiness to combat terrorism by joining the conventions.

Judge Dehghani asked the countries that host the MEK to extradite the suspects to a competent court. “According to international law and conventions, hosting terrorist suspects while a competent court is handling their charges is a crime,” he said.

The French government is hosting the first defendant) the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization as a legal entity) of the case. As judge Dehghani said, according to international conventions, hosting terrorist groups is against the conventions and creates criminal liability for the officials of this country, and these officials must be accountable to the government and people of Iran.
“Many of the court’s witnesses are former members of the main defendant (MEK), and very detailed testimonies have been presented in court regarding France’s hosting of the defendants”, the judge added.

Referring to some of the defenses raised in the previous court session, Massoud Maddah, the lawyer for the plaintiffs in the case, said: “In this case, we deal with people who fought against oppression and the Shah, and who are fighters and mujahids, and who claim that a guerrilla should not survive for more than 6 months. Why is Massoud Rajavi alive and has not fought? When Rajavi was ordering the resistance units in the country to torture and assassinate people and hijack planes, he was in France. There are documents that Massoud Rajavi cooperated with SAVAK to the fullest extent. The Iranians who fought and took action against Iran are evidence of the conspiracy and betrayal of Rajavi and this organization.”

To defend his clients he added, “What Rajavi has committed is bombing, intimidation, public disorder, guerrilla attacks, torture, genocide, and hijacking, all of which are examples of the actions of terrorist groups.”

Maddah warned that as long as this organization exists, all of this group’s crimes can be spread to all people in the world, and no one will be safe from their criminal actions.

The lawyer added, “There is no doubt that legal entities can be held responsible towards others, and there is no doubt that these groups have civil liability, and therefore, in this regard, if there is a claim against legal entities, there is the possibility of claiming against the property of legal entities.”

According to Maddah, in criminal groups, criminal responsibility is transferred from members to their leaders, but in the case of legal entities, criminal responsibility is transferred from the leaders to members. For example, whenever Massoud Rajavi feels defeated, he orders assassinations so that the name of his organization is repeated in the media.

Following the court’s announcement to register a complaint against the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), many complaints have been sent from all over the country from people who were victims of the crimes of the organization, and 205 victims of the MEK group have registered their complaints, expressing their complaints against both the organization and its leaders.

At the end of the hearing, the judge said: The next court session will be held on May 13.

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The twenty-eighth session of the court investigating the crimes of the Mujahedin- Khalq (MEK) was held on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, presided over by Judge Dehghan.

Maddah, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, told the court that the leaders of the MEK prioritized advancing their own goals and did not care about the lives of the people. Quoting from Mehran Asdaqi, the arrested member of an MEK team house, he said, “When we entered the new team house, we saw that they had made lead objects for us and taught us to hit people on the back of the head with these objects to quickly knock them unconscious; they had equipped the bathroom in the house and the bathroom was insulated so that if we wanted to torture them in it, the sound would not escape, and they had already sent teams to dig graves so that we could quickly bury the bodies.”

Mahmoud Asemanpanah, a former member of the MEK who appeared as a witness in court, explained his 17-year involvement in the terrorist group MEK.

He said that in 1988, after being deceived by the MEK terrorist group’s propaganda, he went to Ashraf through a difficult path.

Asemanpanah’s account of his journey to join the MEK, his life in the group, and his efforts to leave and return home to his family is interesting, but even more interesting is the concern of this defected member for his friends who are still members of the group.

He said that he is doing everything he can to discredit the MEK and encourage his remaining friends in Ashraf to return to the country.

Telling the story of his carefree return to the country, Asemanpanah said: “I am now working as a painter; I have my own family and life, and I want to inform those who remain in Ashraf that everything the group says about the consequences of returning to Iran is a lie.”

Ardeshir Darvishi, another defected member of the MEK, was also present at the 28th court session.

Darvishi said: “When I joined the group, I touched and felt some realities and realized that what the organization had told the world about itself was completely different from what I was observing; the group ruined our understanding, intelligence, or humanity; it took away our emotions.”

Darvishi spoke of the suffering and psychological pressure that had plagued him since 2004, when he separated from the MEK terrorist group.

This defected MEK member said: “When I escaped from the group, the mobile phone that is available to everyone was unknown to me; I was deprived of having a phone or even a radio; in Camp Ashraf, which was built with the help of Saddam and the Western world, they had cut off our connection with the outside world.

Then, the lawyer mentioned the two major crimes of the terrorist group, the MEK, in the 1980s, namely the bombing of the Prime Minister’s office and the Republican Party. Jafar Khoramdal, the committee’s operations officer and a member of the Central Committee, also took the stand to explain.

While providing details about the incidents, he made some points regarding the torture committed by MEK members, saying: “I was given the responsibility of identifying the people who had been tortured by the MEK agents; the condition of some of the victims was so bad that no one was willing to accept this responsibility.”

Ahmad Karimpour, head of the country’s bomb check and neutralization unit, also attended the stand and provided specialized explanations about the explosion of the Republic party building.

He pointed out an important point and said: The bomb used had a complex system and the four countries, England, Germany, America, and France, had the ability to manufacture that bomb, but we were unable to determine which country the bomb was manufactured in.

In response to Judge Dehghani’s question about the possibility of purchasing this bomb on the black market, Karimpour stated: “The type of bomb was not such that it could be purchased on the market.”

During the twenty-eight sessions of the court investigating the crimes of the MEK, numerous related books and films were introduced; although the films introduced were all about the crimes of the MEK, the books introduced covered a wider range of topics, from MEK approaches to legal debates.

It was around 1:00 p.m. when Judge Dehghani announced the end of the twenty-eighth court session and said the next court session would be held on February 18.

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The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Kazemi began his speech explaining the structures of criminal groups according to the science of law. He stated that the MEK should be considered a legal entity. Stating that criminal groups are illegal groups due to their criminal nature and the basis for the formation of these groups is to commit illegal acts, he said: “Therefore, the formation and creation of these groups also has no conformity with the law and they did not comply with the formal and substantive provisions of the law that legal entities usually must comply with in order to be recognized by the legislator. For the following reasons, I believe that criminal groups also have legal personality and responsibility, despite not complying with the formalities.”

Arguing about the MEK’s legal entity, based on the business laws, Kazemi concluded that the MEK can be brought to justice as a legal entity although it has never complied with the legal formalities needed.

Akbar Kabiri, a member of the then committee of revolutionary guards, took the stand and told the court about his observations on June 20, 1981 when the MEK broke out the armed struggle against the Iranian government.
“It was a horrible day when they all took to the streets and declared armed war,” he said. “The MEK expected the people to come and stand by their side them and establish their government on the same day. The people did not support them and appeared against them.”

Based on Kabiri’s testimonies the MEK hated that Iranian people did not support them and decided to revenge. “The leaders gave a direct order after June 20th, and these things that I am presenting are from the statements of the MEK agents that we arrested,” he added. “They said that they had orders from the high-ranking officials of the organization to take revenge. It was planned to assassinate anyone who appeared religious in the streets and had a picture of the late Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Beheshti in their workplace.”

Kabiri explained some of his experiences with the arrested MEK members: “We raided a place in a basement on Motahari Street where a number of pharmacy PhD students were gathered, and this place was a cyanide manufacturing laboratory. They would break the tops of the ampoules, seal them with double-sided tape, and give them to the organization, and the organization would give these cyanide bottles to its members.”

About the cyanide ampules he explained: “Before, the organization would give members capsules, and sometimes it wouldn’t work in their stomachs, or sometimes we would save these people we arrested by washing their stomachs; so they would give the bottles to the members. When they were arrested, they would put one of the bottles in their mouths and chew, and the bottle would break, and the cyanide would enter their blood directly. The organization didn’t want any of their members to be arrested alive.”

According to his testimonies most of the arrested MEK members were 18-19 years old who had been brainwashed by the group so as they were always ready to die for the cause of the group. The arrested members of the organization all said that they received all orders from the organization’s central cadre, and that members of the organization were not allowed to read newspapers or watch television, and if someone wanted to leave the organization, they would be physically eliminated.
Subsequently, Issa Azadeh, a defected member of the MEK who lives in Europe, appeared as a witness in the court session online and took an oath to truthfully state his case in court.

He began his testimonies with this introduction: “Considering that I have been living in Europe for many years and have defected this cult, I have received several assassination threats. Therefore, I always check this organization through their own media or other media. In addition, I am in touch with some friends who are present in Camp Ashraf 3 and in Albania and I am aware of the activities of this organization.

About the importance of the court he said, “The importance of this court for the mercenaries of the MEK and also for the opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran is very clear. Maryam Qajar Azdanloo [Maryam Rajavi], as the person behind the window and spokesperson of this organization, is seeking to tarnish and discredit this court and is making arrangements for this; therefore, this court is a very important and historic court. Although in my opinion, who was a member of the Cult of Rajavi for many years, this court was held late, but holding this court is a precedent for the crimes and brutalities of this organization.”

Azadeh who was a member of the group from 1987 to 2011, explained that in the MEK no one has ever had a clear and fixed organizational position. Responsibilities were given to each individual, and they said that this responsibility was temporary.
Regarding torture in the organization, Issa Azadeh said: Torture is a defined issue in the MEK and is completely permissible.

The torturers were led by Seyyed Mohammad Sadat Darbandi, known as Adel. He trained them. He himself was under the supervision of Giti Givechian. Another person named Mir Hossein Mousavi Sigaroudi was called Agent 007 within the Rajavi’s group. Other people called him Fazel. He was also one of the torturers and played a major role in the tortures of 1973. Also, Bahram Janat Sadeghi, who is currently in Albania, and Mahvash Sepehri, who was also in the first place in terms of torturer, known as Nasrin butcher in the organization.

He continued: Among the torturers were other people named Majid Alamiyan, Ezzati, known as Nariman, and Asadollah Musana. Masoud Mazloumi and Roqiyeh Abbasi were also torturers. There are other people, but these people I mentioned were the torturers of Shohreh Afagh. Here I mention my friends in the organization who were killed by these torturers. Minoo Fathali, who once escaped and Mahvash Sepehri once stepped on her throat with a boot and said that if anyone wants to escape, we will spill their blood next to the trees. Fathali was killed on Rajavi’s orders and by her torturers.

Asked by the judge if he himself was tortured in the MEK, Azadeh said, “I realized that these people were being taken out of base in the middle of the night. Every now and then, Seyyed Mohammad Darbandi, Sigaroudi, Majid Alemian, and Bahram Janat Sadeghi would come and put black garbage bags over the people’s heads, they would also collect the items from their wardrobes in black garbage bags, and they would take the people away in Land Cruisers.

He continued: When I realized this, they called me one night and Sigaroudi put a sheet of paper in front of me and asked me to sign it. On that A4 sheet of paper it was written: I came here as an infiltrator from the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran to infiltrate and assassinate the leader. After reading the contents of this sheet, I crumpled it up, threw it at Sigaroudi, and got into a fight with them. They stabbed me in the arm with a knife, the marks of which are still there, and I broke two of my vertebrae. I arrived in Europe paralyzed and underwent two surgeries in a clinic in Paris, and my condition has not yet fully recovered.

Azadeh added: About 10 to 15 people there fought with me and after a lot of fighting, I fainted and fell on the spot. Then they took me to the hospital and locked me in solitary confinement with the same condition and stitches on my arm.

The judge said: Describe the details of the torture.

The defected member of the MEK said: When I protested against their actions, they attacked me. I protested and said, “Why are you torturing me? Am I your enemy?” Of course, they were preparing the ground for their torture, and when they put that sheet in front of me, I realized that they were looking for a ground for my torture, and this is one of the organization’s tactics. They tied my hands and feet behind my back and kicked me very brutally. This torture was so brutal that I did not imagine that I would survive and describe these crimes in such a place and situation.

He recalled: After I was released from solitary confinement, they took me to a 6×4 room where about 50 people were imprisoned. There was a bathroom and a toilet in one corner of the room, and they gave me an army blanket to use as a bedspread.

Azadeh continued: I had a friend named Saeed Seyed Murad, who was an outspoken person in the organization and did not give in to pressure, and that is why he went to prison. One day, while we were in the aforementioned room, they called out to Saeed Murad, and Bahram Jannat Sadeghi ordered him to be blindfolded right there and Saeed was taken away. We could clearly hear Saeed’s moaning and groaning, asking for our help, even though the MEK had special rooms for torture and had soundproofed them. After a few hours, four people had grabbed Saeed’s hands and feet and thrown him into the room.
The judge asked: Who else was there when Saeed Seyed Murad was taken away, accompanying Jannat Sadeghi?
Azadeh replied: Asadullah Mosanni and Hassan Ezzati.

The judge said: What was Saeed Sayed Murad’s condition when they brought him back into the room?

The MEK defector said: His entire face and eyes were blistered. They had taken our personal clothes and given us a prison-like outfit. Saeed Sayed Murad’s clothes were also torn to pieces and the marks of his boots were clearly visible on his body. His back was completely swollen and blue due to the blows from the cable or hose. The blows to his head and face had caused his entire face to swell and the marks of torture were clearly visible on his face, and he was unable to stand on his feet.

Hassan Sharqi, a prisoner of war who had joined the MEK, appeared on the stand as a defected member of the group and swore an oath not to tell anything but the truth. “I was a cadre officer [of Iranian army] and was held as a POW in 1980. Due to a family matter, I decided not to return to Iran. Mehdi Abrishamchi and his men tricked me into staying with the MEK for a few months, but then they took a pledge from me and kept me there for 24 years.”

One of the daily self-criticism sessions was led to Sharqi’s torture. He testifies in the court, “They said you want to sabotage the organization. I said, “Give me my money and expel me so I can leave here.” Because they had taken a lot of money from me when I arrived, they kept me in a container for 5-6 days and beat me twice a day. One of these torturers was Hossein Abrishamchi, who is dead. Another was Iraj Taleshi.”

Judge Dehghani asked: How many times were you beaten and did you need medicine and treatment and do you have a certificate?

Sharqi replied: Twice and because of this torture, the soles of my feet have not healed yet, but I have not received a certificate. They took about 110 thousand dollars from me and Zahra Rajabi, who was one of the commanders and was killed in Turkey, took two gold necklaces and my wedding ring, which I have filed a complaint with the Hague court.
At the end, the judge said to the plaintiff’s lawyer to present the medical certificates that each of these witnesses relied on to the court.

The next session of the court will be held on February 4th.

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The ongoing trial aims to expose the full extent of the terrorist group’s atrocities, with victims’ families present to testify. Kidnapping, torture and detonating bombs in public places, which represent only a fraction of the group’s terrorist activities, were the focus of this hearing.

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 MEK rial The 25th court session was held to hear the charges against 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), as well as the nature of this organization as a legal entity.

The 25th court session examining the charges against 104 high-ranking members of the MEK as well as the organization’s nature as a legal entity, was held in public on Tuesday at Branch 11 of the Criminal Court of Tehran province, presided by Judge Amir Reza Dehghani.

At the beginning of the session, Judge Dehghani asked the plaintiffs’ lawyer to take the stand and make his statements.

Lawyer Kazemi said: In the last session, we talked about a topic called “engineering operations”. After the measures taken in February 1981, a large number of team houses and high-ranking individuals of the organization were identified and arrested, the organization felt danger and accordingly sought a solution to stop this process. The members of the organization executed engineering operations. Engineering operations mean carrying out intelligence work so that they can understand the reason for the leaking in the organization, so they changed their approach from assassinating individuals to collecting information.

Kazemi added: “At first, they started collecting information from the people at the community level, but they found out that they were not getting any results, so they came to the conclusion that they would kidnap people who they thought were affiliated with the Islamic Republic and obtain information from them by torturing them to find out where they were being penetrated. This was considered the engineering operation.”

Kazemi continued: “Explanations were given in the previous session regarding the execution of the engineering operation and the crimes committed against Abbas Effat-Ravesh, one of the victims of the group. In this session, we will discuss the various aspects of the MEK’s acts of kidnapping, torturing, and assassinating two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili, in the operation known as the Engineering Operation.”

He added: “According to the confessions of the arrested members of the NEK, the group’s central leadership, following the successive blows to the organization’s body that had led to the arrest of a large number of its members, and also in order to identify the perpetrators of the blows, took action to identify, kidnap, and torture individuals with religious appearances to gather information.”

The plaintiffs’ lawyer said: “The core members of the organization made sure that their team houses were ready for the purpose of torturing individuals, as well as providing them with the tools and equipment to torture. When they wanted to torture individuals, they would identify specific houses and equip them, for example, they would prepare a house so that no sound could escape from it.”

He quoted from an arrested member of the group, the defendant Mehran Asdaghi, one of the military commanders of the MEK at that time. In his statements justifying these actions, Asdaghi said that the regarding the announcement of the torture agenda by the group’s leaders and central cadres, the torture line was not separate from the rest of the organization’s agenda. It was a continuation of the same lines of conflicts after the 22th of July (the start of the group’s armed struggle against Islamic Republic), assassinations and burning of houses and killing of government officials, and ultimately this same process of torture.

Based on Asdaghi’s confessions, in their justifications, they said that we are torturing now, but when we come to power, we will no longer torture. In this regard, the members of the organization, taking up the torture line, attempted to kidnap Abbas Effat Ravesh, a shoemaker, Khosrow Riahi, a teacher, and three members of the Revolutionary Guards named Taleb Taheri, Mohsen Mirjalili, and Shahrokh Tahmasbi, arguing that these individuals had a religious appearance and so were probably trying to identify the organization’s team houses.

Kazemi added: On August 6, 1982, the two great martyrs Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Committee, were standing on Karun Street near a team house belonging to the group’s members. The team house security force became suspicious of them and, after coordinating with the headquarters, searched them on the street, then forced them into a car and transferred them to the team house where they were tortured.

The lawyer quoted the statements of the arrested defendants: Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili were subjected to the most heinous tortures from the moment they arrived at this place, such as burning their bodies with an iron and boiling water, severe blows to the face and mouth, and teeth extraction by members of the organization. Then, when their torture failed, they were shot and killed by injecting cyanide into their bodies. Then, their bodies were wrapped in blankets and taken to Nizamabad and handed over to the defendant Khosrow Zandi, another member of the organization in the engineering department. They also transferred the bodies to a place in Bagh-e-Fayz that they had prepared in advance.

“The images of this incident are clear and will be made available to the court,” the lawyer said. According to these images, Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili were two members of the Guards who were suspected by the MEK and were kidnapped, tortured and finally killed. Taleb Taheri was only 17 years old at the time.

Sedaqat, a legal expert, then took the stand and provided explanations on the subject of the engineering operation, its origins, factors, and effects. He said: “As an expert, I must have an analytical view of this incident. It must be investigated why such actions were taken and why these tortures were carried out.” According to the confessions of one of the leaders of the group and the head of their military branch in Tehran, which were read by the defense attorney, these tortures were very brutal and similar tortures cannot be found even in the Middle Ages. This amount of brutality and misconduct is unprecedented in history.

Based on the confessions of the arrested members of the MEK, Kazemi read details of the ruthless tortures MEK agents committed against the five victims of Engineering Operation to the audience.

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Reassuring the witnesses and informants who show up, the Judge announced that all members based in Albania and other members of the group who wish to testify in this court can contact consulates and international institutions linked with the Islamic Republic of Iran, under the protection of Iranian Judiciary.

According to the judge, international organizations must ensure the safety of witnesses, that is, any person from Albania or its affiliated members who approach them, in accordance with the UN Charter and the laws approved after 1993.
The lawyer of the plaintiffs, Mollai presented certain facts and documents on the MEK’s terrorist operations against civilians. He said, “In addition to carrying out terrorist operations against the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the group has murdered ordinary citizens, women and children as one of its main goals and in order to create fear and terror among the people.”

The lawyer referred to the torture and assassination of civilians such as workers, shoemakers, teachers and ordinary passers-by just because the group simply considered as to be religious. He spoke of Abbas Effat Ravesh, a shoe maker who was killed by the MEK agents only due to his appearance. He looked like to be a supporter of the Iranian government.

On August 8, 2018 at 10:00 PM, upon the order of the organization’s leader to kidnap Abbas Effat Ravesh, who was a shoemaker, the organization’s special operation team went to his. Since he was not present, they went to his workplace in Shemiran, Tehran. Disguised in the uniforms of Iranian Revolutionary guards, they took him. When they put him in a car, they tied his hands and eyes and took him to a team house where they subjected him to the most severe torture in order to get the information they wanted. When they did not achieve the desired result, after much torture, they killed him by injecting cyanide. They tied his hands and feet, put him in the trunk of a car, and took him to a predetermined location where they buried his body. They even did not know his name. The MEK agents just called him “shoe maker” in their confessions.

The lawyer cited from the confessions of two arrested MEK members who collaborated in the killing of Abbas and three members of revolutionary guards. Mehran Asdaghi was one of them. He was the military commander of the MEK terror teams in Tehran.

The lawyer read Mehran Asdaghi’s confessions: “Around evening, Mostafa Madan Pisheh shot Mohsen Mirjalili in the bathroom due to his shaking and we were forced to evacuate the house, so we decided to eliminate the guards and the shoemaker. We tied them to chairs, blindfolded them and stunned them with the same lead rods and then injected cyanide into their bodies, after which they started to snort. While they were still alive, we tied their bodies with ropes so that they could fit inside the trunk of the car.”

The plaintiffs’ lawyer told the court: “The MKO arrested the shoemaker simply because he had a religious face and they did not recognize him and only knew that he was a shoemaker.”

He continued, “When the shoemaker entered the house, he was tortured, and with the extensive torture that was inflicted on him, it became clear on the first day that he was unaware of everything and that what MEK commanders were saying was not true. Despite shoemaker’s begging that he did not know what you wanted from him, they continued torturing him because the people above had ordered it.”

The video of Mehran Asdaghi’s confessions at the time of his arrest was then shown in court.
Confessions of Khosrow Zandi, the person in charge of burying the body of the deceased, and the officials who gave the order was also presented in the court.

The lawyer stated that the type of action taken by the MEK in killing the Effat-Ravesh and several others such as Taleb Taheri, Mohsen Mirjalili, and Shahrokh Tahmasbi, which the organization has named “engineering operation”, is different from the criminal title of murder. This action has the following characteristics: 1- Killing people in the category of engineering operations by applying the most severe tortures such as burning with an iron and boiling water, peeling and severe beatings, and finally killing them with cyanide injections while they had signs of life. 2- These actions were not motivated by personal motives and were completely organized and systematic. 3- Attempting to kill people and using people trained in torture and murder. 4- Creating terror and intimidation with the most severe torture and assassination.
The Lawyer asked the court to investigate the role of each of the defendants in the killing of Effat Ravesh, considering their organizational position in the structure of MEK.

Then a former member of the MEK, who stayed unnamed took the stand as a witness. He introduced himself as saying:
“I live in Germany and was a member of the MEK from 1981 to 1991. I had a political motivation for joining the organization, and in 1981 I joined this organization with a political goal, and I worked with this group inside Iran until 1991. Many of my close friends had also joined this organization.

During this time, we suffered a lot and were forced to do forced labor, almost like slavery. Massoud Rajavi trampled on all our political, social, and family issues. He crossed every red line and then provided evidence and proof, saying that I was a new prophet. He first placed Maryam as the ideological leader and then in the position of president, but he always saw himself as an untouchable person.”

About the cult-like nature of the MEK the eye-witness explained that there is only one ideological leader who can be the president. “Of course, later, when I went to Iraq, I was faced with these trends of ideological revolution, organization, forced labor, and austerity,” he said. “I saw that these had nothing to do with Iranian society or politics, they were all my inventions. Every day he would put his forces in a tight spot and besieged so that they would do nothing but obey, praise, and submit. Every day he would elevate himself one level higher and higher.”

He was a victim of the MEK’s violence too. He said: “I remember in 1981, a woman named Fereshteh Yeganeh, who was a high-ranking official, challenged me and asked me why did you come here? I replied that I came to fight, and that one word caused me to be thrown in prison the next day. We had different prisons. If I had said, for example, that I came for brother [Massoud], I might have been forgiven.”

In fact, he was imprisoned once more in 1988 in Iraqi Kurdistan. “A prisoner who had no choice in public and could not defend himself,” he recalls. “No one could eat with him, mention his name, or look at him.”

Asked by the judge about his organizational position, he answered, “I worked mostly in the intelligence department and I did not have a position. In this department, there were various tasks such as wiretapping and overhearing telephone calls. It was the work of the press and publications, and evacuation, and it was mostly related to wiretapping.”
“There is fear on your face. Have you been threatened?”, the witness was asked by the lawyer

The witness said: “Yes, I have been threatened. I have said a lot about the organization. I was once a guest at the European Parliament in Belgium. Maryam Rajavi was there that day. Maryam Rajavi’s bodyguards attacked me and beat me, saying that this person was a terrorist and that the Islamic Republic of Iran had sent him. I hired a lawyer about this matter and filed a complaint, stating that my family was being held hostage by the organization.”

The judge asked: Are your wife and children still hostage?
The witness said: “Yes. They separated my wife and I without informing us and without a religious order. Germany did not investigate this complaint and the court was not held. We and our families are always under threat. They call anyone who opposed them a mercenary…I went to Germany and legally freed my child, but my wife is still in the MEK’s prison.”

According to the witness who showed up in the 24th session of the MEK’s trial, In 1985, in order to justify that so-called “ideological revolution” and his disastrous marriage with Maryam Qajar, Massoud Rajavi sent a group of forces to Iran to carry out assassinations.

The witness said: “The terror teams were trained in the MEK’s camp and entered Iran through Kurdistan or other routes.”
The judge asked: “Was the torture of people part of this training?”

This defected member of the organization stated: “I spoke to many people who had been tortured. In 1997, the organization imprisoned more than 500 of its members. Mr. Reza Gooran wrote a book about his torture in Norway. I read in this book that a number of members died under torture. According to the author of this book, Parviz Ahmadi and several others were killed under torture. The names of the torturers are also given in this book. Their reason for torturing the members was that these people might later become critics of the organization. They would keep these people in custody or persecute them.”
The next session of the court will be held on Tuesday, December 10th.

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