As the families of Camp Liberty residents become more successful in getting the UNHCR and the Iraqi authorities to act to help free their loved ones, the MEK has embarked on a counter campaign. The message is that ‘Iraq will not grant visas to genuine families and this proves that the families visiting Iraq
Sepher has now returned to London where his father is terminally ill in hospital. Sepher’s mother is still with the MEK/MKO/PMOI and Rahimi and his son have tried to make contact with her before he dies. They have now begun asking MEK lobbyists for help since the MEK leaders only reacted by calling them “agents of the Iranian regime”…
In Iraq, the MEK is trying to slow down this process – they can’t stop it – so they can absorb the new arrivals and keep them under control. This week ten people separated from the MEK in Tirana and renounced the group. The MEK spend a lot of money and has sent its top people there for damage limitation and control. Anyone who wants to leave is required to sign a document agreeing to receive $500 per month…..
The MEK/MKO/PMOI has tried to reanimate some of its old lobbyists in Iraq and send them to the American embassy in Baghdad. Alongside this they have published a petition signed in only a few days by “millions of Iraqis”, and another petition by “thousands of Iraqi lawyers and lawmakers”, but without any names. Former MEK …
Families of Camp Liberty residents were invited to Iraq’s parliament to meet with MPs and attend the meeting of a Committee called ‘Residigi’ or ‘Resolution’ which has been tasked with resolving the problem of Camp Liberty. Iraq’s parliamentary website featured this on its first page along with a report saying …
“there are two reasons we can look deeper into for this kind of behaviour. One is that Rajavi and the MEK love crowds and cameras for their own publicity, hence the candles. The second is that they are shitting themselves because they think that now France has been hit like this the government will crack down on all terrorist groups …
Esmail Fallahranjkesh, who ran away from Camp Liberty during the bombing attack on 29 October, has already been reunited with his family. Another escapee, Shahroud Bahadori, has given an interview from the hotel in Baghdad. He stressed that “not a single person” in Liberty wants to be there of their own volition …
One of the MEK/MKO/PMOI members killed in Camp Liberty last week was named as Hossein Abrishamchi, brother of leading member Mehdi Abrishamchi. Hossein is notorious as a wanted man in Iran. While the MEK were still active in Iran, he headed the MEK’s ‘engineering operation’ which was involved in torture…
This week AP reported that Maysam P will appear in court in Germany on charges of spying against the MEK/MKO/PMOI. The MEK had reported this on their own websites before the AP report and named the individual as Maysam Panahi, which suggests they had prior knowledge of the case. Panahi is a former member of the MEK who …
The website Pejvak Iran, belonging to MEK/MKO/PMOI internal critic Iraj Mesdaghi, has published a rant against Iran Interlink and the people who work in it with such bad language (of a sexual nature) that it was impossible to post it on the Farsi site. The rant claims to be from a person with the pseudonym ‘akhlaghi’ who asserts that …