Women Rights in the Mujahedin Khalq

Nejat Albania Conference on Intl Women’s Day

On Friday, March 8, 2024, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, a conference was held at the villa of Nejat Society Albania. The conference was attended by more than 40 Albanian women’s rights activists. The media activists and journalists, including the production team from ATV and Tirana 1 channel, also participated the event to produce contents.

At the beginning of the event, the participating ladies visited the photo and cartoon exhibition of Nejat Society Albania about Mujahedin-e Khalq’s camp in Albania, emphasizing on the rights of families and mothers of those who are taken as hostages inside the MEK’s camp.

In this meeting, Erisa Idrizi, the head of the women’s committee of Nejat Society Albania, welcomed all the guests, introduced the speakers and read the statement of the committee on the occasion of 8th March, International Women’s Day. At the end, the statement was signed by all the participants of the event.

Then Mrs. Angela Doçi, head of the students’ committee for defending Nejat Society Albania, gave a speech. She presented the statement of the committee and in this way the student committee for defending Nejat Society Albania announced its existence and officially started its work. Then, Etleva Sulollari, Mothers’ rights activist, as well as Lirije Abazi and Eltisa Bilo, members of women’s committee of Nejat Society Albania spoke for the audience.

The speakers talked about the International Women’s Day’s values and the human rights violations the MEK leaders commit against their members inside Camp Ashraf 3, in Albania. In the end, the resolution of the conference, that addressed the authorities of the government of Albania, was signed by the participants. The text and the signatures will be sent to the relevant authorities.

Nejat Society Albania conference on women

Nejat Society Albania conference on women s day

March 9, 2024 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Women’s committee of Nejat Society Albania Statement on the occasion of March 8

The MEK has formed a modern slavery in European soil in the 21st century.

The Nejat Society of Albania, as an organization that supports Iranians living in this country, has declared one of its goals to fulfill the human rights demands of the families of the members trapped in the isolated and remote camp of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), and uses all its capacity in this direction.

The women’s group of this Society is specifically the voice of families and especially mothers who have not known about their loved ones for years and want to communicate with them. The leaders of the MEK prevent this communication and violate the most basic human rights of their members.

On this day (March 8), which is named for the rights of mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, and all women, our request is to respond to the calls of the grieving families, especially the mothers of members caught in the MEK in Albania, to provide the possibility of communication between them and their loved ones after many years of detachment and no news.

We ask the responsible authorities in the government of Albania to allow the families of the members of the MEK to communicate with their children and meet their loved ones. In the 21st century, the MEK has formed a modern slavery in European soil. In this organization, all basic human rights and freedoms are violated, one of which is the right to communicate with the free world, especially the family. This can be done simply with a phone call or by making it possible for families to travel to Albania to meet after so many years.

With respect,

Members of the Council of Women’s group of the Albanian Nejat Society:

Erisa Idrizi
Ela Deda
Brikela Sulollari
Mirlinda Zharri
Edona Hunda
Lirije_Abazi
Eltisa Bilo

March 9, 2024 0 comment

Maryam Rajavi

“No to forced hijab, religion and government” a big lie by Maryam Rajavi

The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) has published a book called “No to compulsory hijab, No to compulsory religion, No to compulsory government” in English, which apparently contains a selection of Maryam Rajavi’s speeches.

For those who have gone through a long and painful experience of being in the coercive relations of the MEK, even the title of the book attracts a lot of attention. How and with what attitude can the leader of a destructive cult who runs her organization by sheer coercion comment on coercion!!

In the case of “no to compulsory hijab”, it should be asked how can a group that does not enjoy any concept called “free choice of clothing” in its relationships claim to say no to forced hijab.
In the Cult of Rajavi, women are forced to always wear hijab. If a bit of women’s hair is seen, they will be dealt with harsh punishments. how can Maryam Rajavi claim the slogan “No to compulsory hijab”?! When all women and even men are strongly forced to observe the type of covering that the group has determined for them, how can they really claim, “no to compulsory hijab”?

all women and even men are strongly forced to observe the type of covering that the group has determined for them

Of course, we all know that using such empty promises is only to welcome the western politicians who are in the next step paid heavy amounts in order to deliver a five-minute speech on behalf of the group. The leaders of the MEK have to mask their fierce face in Western societies so that the current realities in their organizations remain hidden.

When we look inside the MEK’s relations, we see that they act completely opposite to their slogans, and their beliefs are 180 degrees different from what they say. Rajavi knows that if he reduces a bit of the ruling compulsions within the hierarchy of his cult, it will certainly collapse. This is the nature of cult-like systems.

The second phrase in the book’s title is “No to compulsory religion!”. A long list of testimonies of former members of the MEK state that in the cult like structure of the MEK, even people who are Muslim but Sunni are forced to behave according to Shia rulings. Based on many documented testimonies, those who did not believe in any religion and had joined the group for its political cause into, were eventually brainwashed and coerced to act as a Muslim does, performing Shia rituals. If from Maryam Rajavi’s point of view this religion is not compulsory, then what does it mean?

One can talk for hours about compulsory hijab and religion in the MEK. From gender segregation to the humiliation of men before the eyes of women and the handing over of the pyramid of power to women, it all shows the alleged dominance of women over relationships. Under the order of the disappeared leader of the cult, they have been forced to divorce their spouses. No one had the power to oppose but Massoud Rajavi had the power to have sexual relationships with all women in the higher ranks. Polygamy is not forbidden for Massoud Rajavi.
And the other thing mentioned in the title of the book is “No to compulsory for the government!”. In this matter, like in other parts of the title, human rights or democracy has no meaning for Maryam Rajavi.

Once Rajavi used to chant the slogan of “Islamic democratic government”, but now he has taken the word “Islamic” to deceive the West and instead, he is chanting the slogan of democracy. The conflicts of the MEK with other opposition groups over any political issue about Iran should be closely studied. Rajavi does not accept any government except what he says. She criticizes and threatens everyone who criticizes her and considers every opponent opinion as enemy.

Maryam Rajavi has claimed to write a book with such titles. No to forced hijab, religion and government, by the mouth of Maryam Rajavi is nothing more than a big lie. She violates these three concepts on daily basis within her organization. She is likely to intend to impose the same version, that is right now being executed in her cult, on the Iranian nation.

By Mazda Parsi

December 4, 2023 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

MEK, the greatest enemy of women and children

If one day Iranian women and children are to complain in a court about the atrocities and crimes that happened to them, surely the leaders of the MEK terrorist group will be present in the first row of all the accused. This is not a superficial and controversial claim. There is a wide range of women, girls and children of this land who fell victim to crimes committed by the MEK terrorist group.

Since the beginning of the 1960s, nearly 450 Iranian women and girls have been victims of terrorist groups, and the MEK has had the highest share. Seventy six victims were schoolgirls aged 11 to 18, and 77 were innocent young girls under 10. The MEK is responsible for the killing of about 400 kids of this nation. This magnitude of brutality of a terrorist group against innocent people and children is unbelievable. Even their usual response to their opponents and critics, both Iranian and non-Iranian, whom they constantly call “regime’s mercenaries” cannot justify the savagery.

Another group of MEK’s female victims are former or current members of the group. Since the mid-60s and Rajavi’s nefarious scheme, which he called “ideological revolution“, hundreds of children were separated from their families and transferred to Europe. Two hundred were sent to Germany who, according to the German police reports and observations of school teachers in cities such as Cologne, were exploited and sexually harassed by the supporters of the MEK, and did not act normally at school. Many others were also sent to streets to beg for donations as part of Rajavi’s fraudulent fund-raising project.

Now, in the MEK’s camp in Albania are female members who were separated from their husbands and kids, prohibited from marriage, education, and working, forced to wear uniforms and dozens of other who were rendered sterile, all providing compelling evidence about anti-family and misogynistic acts within the “stuck-in-the-past” cult of Rajavi.

To evade this atrocity, the MEK has no choice but to resort to deception, lying and distortion of history. However, Iranian themselves are history and this terrorist group will be held accountable one day.

April 6, 2023 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

ASILA members to visit Albanian women’s rights activist

Members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) visited the Albanian human rights activist, Elsa Ballauri.

Elsa Ballauri, the Albanian journalist, activist of human rights, and collector received Iranian and Albanian members of ASILA in her personal museum.

After visiting the museum, Dashamir Mersulli the president of ASILA and a few of Iranian members of the association who are former members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI) had a meeting with Balauri. Ex-members of the MEK revealed facts on violation of human rights inside the MEK’s camp.

Khalil Ansarian and Hamid Atabay spoke of discriminations against female members of the MEK. They criticized Maryam Rajavi for her propaganda about women’s rights while she violates the rights of her own female followers by forcing them to wear hijab.

Bahhauri told ASILA members that the MEK agents had previously tried to buy her support but they did not succeed since she was aware of their dishonest claims about democracy and women’s rights.

https://dla.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/Albani/Asila-Balahuri-202303.mp4

March 26, 2023 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

ASILA to reveal the true counter-women nature of the Rajavi cult

In recent days, we got to know the names of two famous ladies during the activities of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) in Tirana. Two Albanian women, each of whom has a long track record in political and human rights activities and are still active in these fields.

These two women have appeared many times on television channels inside and outside Albania and have interviewed and commented on various issues. It is interesting that both of them, according to their own statements, were repeatedly referred by the operatives of the Rajavi terrorist cult and happened to know the name of ASILA through this way.

Ms. Elsa Ballauri, a Canadian-Albanian activist and president of the Albanian Human Rights group, who recently had meetings and discussions with ASILA officials, and Ms. Naime Gjongecaj, a women’s rights activist and parliamentary candidate, who participated on the ASILA’s ceremony on the occasion of the international women’s day and also got acquainted with Nejat Society.

These two, who were familiar with the so-called ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, when became aware of the extent of oppression of women within the cultic and anti-family relationships of the MEK, realized the depth of hypocrisy and deception of the Rajavi cult and emphasized that the Albanian society must definitely know that their country is hosting a terrorist cult that, above all, violates the most basic human rights of its own members.

Ms. Elsa Ballauri, President of AHRG:

Ms. Ballauri ‘s meeting with ASILA members

Meeting with Ms. Ballauri at the office of ASILA

Meeting in Ms. Ballauri’s office

Ms. Naime Gjongecaj, candidate for parliament:

Ms. Gjongecaj’s interview with ABC network

Ms. Gjongecaj while speaking at the 8th of March meeting of ASILA in Tirana

Ms. Gjongecaj with Erisa Rahimi from Asila

By Atefeh Nadalian

March 25, 2023 0 comment

Maryam Rajavi

International Women’s Day according to Maryam Rajavi

According to Maryam Rajavi the leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI), women’s leadership is the guarantee for democracy and equality. She is right but the leadership of Iranian women, not the MEK’s women. Female members of the MEK are symbols of human rights violations. They are deprived of life with its various aspects.

The various aspects life are physical health, family and friends, relationships, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Experts say that we must know how to balance the various aspects of life in order to lead a happy and healthy life. These aspects of life are absolutely unheard of in the MEK.

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the MEK leader speaks of democracy and equality for Iranian women while the condition of women inside her group is disastrous. Maryam Rajavi speaks of forced hijab as a violator of Iranian women’s rights while women of her group are not only forced to wear hijab but also, they are not allowed to choose the design, pattern and color of their own clothes.

MEK women are not only forced to wear hijab but also, they are not allowed to choose the design, pattern and color of their own clothes

She apparently advocates a female revolution in Iran while female defectors of the group everyday reveal new dimensions of women’s rights abuses committed in the cult-like system of her group.

Former female members of the MEK such as Batoul Soltani, Zahra Moeini, Homeyra Mohammad Nezhad, Nasrin Ebrahimi, Zahra Mirbagheri and Maryam Sanjabi have constantly denounced the Cult of Rajavi and warned the world about its threat of sectarianism and violence particularly against women.

France and Albanian states should be vigilant enough regarding the MEK’s presence in their territory. In both countries, the group has bases. Camp Ashraf 3, located in Duress, north of Tirana, Albania is an isolated place in which the rights of hundreds of Mujahed women are systematically violated on daily basis.

Today, women across the world including the Iranian women are seeking new achievements in their way towards equality and freedom but the MEK still enslaves women. Women in the Cult of Rajavi are deprived from the most basic human rights. They can never love or be loved. They must be single forever; they cannot be mothers anymore; hysterectomy surgery is an order from leader. Those in the group who had children have been separated from children. Based on their beauty and their ranking in the cult’s hierarchy, MEK’s women have been chosen by Massoud Rajavi, the disappeared leader of the group, as sex partners.

Western audience and human rights bodies must get to know that female members of the MEK endure severe mental and physical tortures under the destructive mind control system of the cult. Maryam Rajavi’s speech on the occasion of the International Women’s Day is ridiculous. She is one of the most horrific violators of women’s rights in the entire human history.

By Mazda Parsi

March 7, 2023 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Stop Outrage against women including the ones in the MEK

While there is no sympathizer of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) among Iranian protesters, the group’s leaders broadcast messages for the so-called Khalq (people) one after the other, on their propaganda machine. “Stop outrage! Iranian women do not deserve it,” Maryam Rajavi addressed her fictional audience. She should be asked what about the Mujahed women? Do they deserve outrage?

As an Iranian living in Iran who has access to the media inside and outside the country, I can testify that the majority of Iranian protesters never hear the so-called messages of Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. In fact, the group is so detested by the Iranian public that its very few supporters do not dare to chant slogans on behalf of the MEK and its leaders. They are sure that if they are recognized as MEK supporters, they will be definitely excluded by other protesters because Iranians regard the MEK as traitors and terrorists who has the blood of their own fellow Iranians on their hands. Thus, messages of MEK leaders launched by the group’s media is almost only reached by the group’s insiders, those who are confined in Camp Ashraf 3, in north of Tirana, Albania.

around a thousand members work in the so-called”computer division,”allegedly using fake accounts to post pro-organization propaganda on Twitter and Facebook

Consider an elderly female member of the MEK who gets the massage of her leader, Maryam Rajavi, while she is sitting in front of a desktop system. Her daily routine is to share the leaders’ messages and other manufactured news of the MEK propaganda in social media. She has to like and share the same contents that are shared by her comrades in the same room, at Ashraf troll farm. She works like a robot but who knows? Mind is the most powerful tool in the world. She might hesitate for a second thinking of her own situation as a female member in the MEK Camp.

The token woman has no husband. She got married about forty years ago but her husband might have been killed in one of the MEK’s terrorist act or more probably he must have divorced from her under the order of the group’s guru, Massoud Rajavi. She has no child. Her children were smuggled to somewhere in Europe or North America in 1991 and since then, she has had no news of them. Maybe, the children have been brought back to the group as a child soldier. She might be allowed to visit her child once a year for new year’s celebration although they live in the same camp, regardless that the child might have defected or might have been killed in past years. She has no news of her family outside the group. No phone call or other means of communication are allowed.

The token might have been endured a hysterectomy surgery as about one hundred MEK women endured when the group was located in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. The surgery made them ready for what Massoud Rajavi would call “Ideal Summit”, the position that made the female members prepared for a sexual relation with him. Thus, the woman of this story might have been coerced to become one of Massoud’s numerous sex partners.

MEK Cult women in Albania

She is wearing a gray or khaki uniform and head scarf. She has no choice to select the color of her clothes. She has to cover her hair, and the whole body. If she does not obey the group’s regulations for clothing, she will be punished. Talking of anything except routine tasks is not allowed. She must always take distance from male comrades. Any contact with the opposite sex is considered a crime and makes her the subject of suppression, verbal abuse, torture and even murder. Read about the fate Mehri Moosavi here.

This woman has been manipulated to abandon her sexuality and her individuality. She should be proud of her situation according to the leaders. She has to admit that the cause of the group is more important that any personal choice in her life. But, where is the cause of the group? What have been these women struggling for? Where is their voice in the streets of Iran? How can Maryam Rajavi call for freedom of Iranian women while her own female followers are deprived from their most basic rights? Outrage and discrimination must be stopped against all women including women of the Cult of Rajavi.

By Mazda Parsi

October 4, 2022 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MEK cult neither likes women nor Kurds

These days, the propaganda of the Mujahedin Khalq makes efforts to exploit the incidents in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish 22-year-old girl. Although the heartbreaking death of Mahsa sparked wave of protests in Iran, the MEK is absolutely incompetent to take any position in support of Mahsa or Iranian women in general. The group has a long record of women rights abuses and killing Kurds.

When the group was located in Camp Ashraf –the group’s base in Iraq donated by Saddam Hussein– the MEK continued to launch its terror acts staging cross-border attacks against Iran. As Saddam’s private army, it helped Saddam to crush uprisings against his rule after his defeat by the US in the 1990 Gulf war.
In March 1991, Saddam deployed the MEK to help quell the armed Kurdish independence movement in the north. According to the New York Times, Maryam Rajavi told her fighters: “Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian revolutionary guards.” The MEK vehemently denies it participated in Saddam’s campaigns to put down the Shia and Kurdish rebellions, but an Iraqi human rights tribunal has indicted MEK leaders for their part in suppressing the uprisings.

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization is notoriously known as the Cult of Rajavi, an apparently feminist cult which is actually a polygamist cult. Near a thousand women who have been members of the group since the 1980s were forced to wear hijab according to the group’s regulations. However, gender discrimination in the MEK is not only restricted to forced headscarves.

Female members of the group are victims of a cult of personality around Massoud Rajavi who forced them to divorce their spouses in 1989 and a year later ordered to separate their children from them. The children of Mujahed parents were smuggled to Europe under the order of Massoud Rajavi. Mothers were indoctrinated under the cult of Massoud. They were elevated in the hierarchy of the cult until they were coerced to marry Massoud Rajavi, under the rule of his third wife, Maryam Rajavi.

A number of children were smuggled back to Iraq in their teen years. These teenagers included dozens of girls. They were recruited as soldiers of the MEK’s so-called National Liberation Army (NLA). They were ordered to wear military uniforms and headscarves. They were forced to receive military trainings by MEK commanders.
Although several of MEK female members could manage to escape the group and eventually reveal facts on women rights violations in the MEK, there are still hundreds of women in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania. These women usually show up in the group’s propaganda with red silk headscarves tightly tied under their chins. They do not even have the right to choose a different color for the scarves or they are never allowed to push the scarves just one or two centimeters back on their foreheads.

Thus, Maryam Rajavi is neither a representative of Iranian women, nor she is a sympathizer of Iranian Kurds. She is just a chameleon who chants slogans according to the incidents in Iran in order to please her paid advocates in the West.

September 24, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

The Pandora Box of the Mujahedin Khalq sex cult

“There has never been such a sovereign in the whole history of human beings”, former member of the Mujahedin khalq organization and a long-standing critic of the group, Iraj Mesdaghi says. “Massoud Rajavi is a unique example among dictators who practiced polygamy. There have been kings, emperors and cult leaders who had many wives, who used to take the wives of their rank and file but Rajavi is an exception because he has forbidden marriage for other men under his rule. Sex is forbidden for all male members of the MEK.”

After the so-called ideological revolution in the MEK, Members of the group were forced to divorce their spouses under the order of Massoud Rajavi; celibacy became mandatory in the group. “All emotions had to be led to Massoud Rajavi.”

Iraj Mesdaghi

Mesdaghi who has been labeled as the agent of the Iranian government by the MEK propaganda, has numerous documents and testimonies of former members of the MEK to prove that Massoud Rajavi raped female members of his so-called Elite Council under a systematic process. In an interview with Sahar Tahvili, he reveals secrets of Rajavi’s mass marriage with the group’s female rank and file.

Maryam was in love with Massoud when she was married to Abrishamchi and was the mother to his daughter with him.

The first victim of such a horrifying system is Massoud Rajavi’s third wife, Maryam Qajar Azdanlou who turned to be Maryam Rajavi after their so-called “ideological marriage” in Paris, in 1985. The marriage was hailed by the organization as the beginning of a permanent “ideological revolution”.
“Rajavi is proud to say that Maryam was in love with him while she was still married to Mehdi Abrishamchi,” Mesdaghi discloses. “So, as the office manager of Massoud Rajavi, Maryam was near his love, doing his personal affairs around the office.”

Masoud Rajavi launched what he called an”ideological revolution”in 1985. He married the wife of a confidant and forced all others to get divorced

Their marriage was the eventual consequence of those days but Massoud tried to garnish it with an ideological sauce. “Massoud claimed that Maryam has gone a long way to reach him and all women of the group should follow her in her path to reach him”. Mesdaghi cites form Rajavi, “I belong to all of them.”.
Maryam should not be an obstacle between Massoud and other female members, instead she should be a catalyzer for their unification. “The first woman who is led by Maryam to sleep with Massoud Rajavi is Fahimeh Arvani,” Mesdaghi highlights. “Compared with other women of the Elite Council, Arvani did not enjoy a higher ideological or political status but she only looked more beautiful. So, she opened her way to Massoud’s Harem.”

Sex with Rajavi is vital for your growth

Rajavi had to justify his abnormal relationships with women with kind of argument. “This is vital for your growth and progress in the group” Mesdaghi quotes Rajavi. “Maryam is scarifying herself for you.”
Mesdaghi speaks of a series of steps that coerces women to obey Massoud Rajavi’s bizarre orders. He emphasizes on the fact that members of the Cult of Rajavi are kept in complete ignorance, isolation and deprived from all rights even sexual life. “They are like zombies,” he says. “They are under constant manipulation techniques. Before going to private meetings, they have to write love letters to Massoud Rajavi expressing their love for him. If they disobey, they go under severe peer pressure. They are verbally abused with the most horrific words.”

Then the women get ready to go to a session called “Salvation Dance” which is actually a party of nude dancing in front of Massoud Rajavi which leads to group sex with him. “Rajavi called nude dancing as a spiritual ceremony,” Mesdaghi says.
During the ceremony, Maryam and several high-ranking women persuaded other women to remove their clothes and dance before the eyes of Massoud. “They asked them to take of the clothes of evil,” Mesdaghi says. “They try to give an ideological aspect to the ceremony. As moments pass, the participants go to a kind of ecstasy.”

Rajavi reads verses of Quran before sex

According to Mesdaghi’s evidences, Massoud Rajavi uses religious concepts as a tool to run his cult of polygamy. “Before going to bed with the selected woman of the night he says prayer, then he reads a few verses of Quran,” he states.

Asked about those women who did not agree to sleep with Rajavi, Mesdaghi speaks of Minoo Fathali and Mehri Mousavi who were killed mysteriously in the group because they wanted to leave the cult.
Mesdaghi declares that he has enough documents to condemn leaders of the Cult of Rajavi for sexual abuse of female members of their group. He correctly points out the silence of the MEK’s propaganda about the revelations on sex abuse in its group. “Rajavi knows that what he committed against his female members is considered a criminal act according to the international laws,” Mesdaghi says.

By Mazda Parsi

May 11, 2022 0 comment

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