MKO Members’ Families Meet Red Cross Reps-Shiraz
Nejat Newsletter
The purpose of this newsletter is to provide specialized facts and information to a limited targeted audience. We try to build our society ’ s identity amongst foreign diplomats and delegates in Tehran, but anyone might benefit from the information it contains. You can simply add your name to our mailing list by contacting us, and then receive the Newsletter regularly. You might even consider demanding the Society for our further materials and publications. We are aiming to publish this newsletter at least quarterly, or even monthly, so that it is considered a consistent source of information on our intended subject. You will look forward to its arrival. Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are any queries or opinions. We would be absolutely delighted to respond to your e-mails and communications. The word “ Nejat ” in Farsi literally means “ salvation ” , or “ rescue ” . The Nejat Society consists of those defected members of Mojahedin-é Khalq Organization (MKO) who have managed to rescue themselves from the boundaries of the Organization, and consider themselves obliged to strive to help and rescue the members who are still mentally or even physically captive inside the Organization. Ex-members of MKO have managed to return home to their families since the overthrow of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Nejat Society of course played a vital role with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Iranian Red Crescent, and other international and domestic bodies as well as the families themselves to safeguard their homecoming. Of those who have managed to flee the Organization are kept in a nearby component under the supervision of “ Temporary International Presence Facility (TIPF) ” .
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to be released from the bars of a cult
Calling for help to rescue the captured ones in Camp Ashraf on Friday September twenty seconds, at ten O’clock Nejat Society held a press conference in Paris.
The delegation of NejatNGO including seven persons, described the situation of the captured ones in the camp of Rajavi’s Cult.
Mr. Chevalrias, the chief of anti-terrorism research center, started the meeting introducing Nejat Society. Then Mr. Babak Amin, as the representative of the delegation presented a background of Nejat’s activities, pointing out the results of the activities and the increasing development of families claims to liberate their beloved ones. He also explained the activities of Nejat Society during last week in Paris such as meetings with governmental or nongovernmental officials and human rights centers and press ..
Arash Sametipour, Ali Moradi, Ali Asghar torabi, Zahra bozorgmehr, Masumeh Rezaiee and Nasrin dadkhah presented some explanations on future planned affairs of Nejat NGO.
They told that their trip was welcomed warmly and the Society will send other delegations to Europe and North America regularly.
While answering the questions, Mr.Amin affirmed that they will open offices of Nejat Society in Western countries.
Mr. Moradi, who was a war-prisoner during Iran-Iraq war and was sent to the cult by Saddam Hussein, described the situation in Camp Ashraf and the Camp of liberated ones explaining the ways and solutions to be rescued from Rajavi’s cult. He confirmed that the majority of the people in Camp Ashraf are willing to meet their families.
Mr.Sametipour who was recruited by MKO members like Alireza Jafarzade in the US with some other teenagers and sent to Iraq, confirmed that Alireza Jafarzade was particularly in charge of justifying the recruited members and sending them to training camps in Iraq appealing the US officials to prevent the networks of MKO from acting in the Washington.
He told that the presence of this terrorist group and its activities near White House is a serious crisis and a potential threat for US community.
Mr. Husseini, Saeed Husseini’s mother from Husseini family, explained that she has suffered the separation from her son for twenty five years. She asked the international society for aid providing the possibility to meet and liberate her son.
Mr. Babak Amin read Nejat Society’s statement stating families’ demands as follows:
1. The possibility of meeting between captured members and their families freely and without the presence of the cult representatives.
2. The captured members could call or write their families directly and without the interference of cult leaders.
3. The members should be interviewed out of organizational conditions in front of international Red Cross representatives.
4. The members could decide for their future and situation themselves and shouldn’t be influenced by Rajavi organizational pressure.
5. Since Rajavi’s organization is recognized as a terrorist group, we know the leaders of the cult direct responsible for the captured members’ lives.
6. The conference ended by Q&A meeting at 1:30. the invited people were discussing the presented affaires until 6:00 pm.
Striking down the boundaries
Captives of Maryam Rajavi’s Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq
Are Human Rights Victims Says Iran-Interlink;
Press Conference in Paris Sept. 22
9/20/2006 10:00:00 AM
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To: International and Assignment desks
Contact: Anne Singleton of Iran Interlink, +44 113 278 0503 or email info@iran-interlink.org
PARIS, Sept. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ — Following is a statement of Iran Interlink on captives in Iraq:
For three years U.S. forces have protected a terrorist group in Iraq even though most of them want to return home to their families.
Mojahedin Khalq combatants are being held against their will in Camp Ashraf say former members who have returned home in the past two years.
Now, a seven member delegation from the Iranian NGO, Nejat Association, has arrived in Paris to alert public opinion to the situation of 3,000 men and women held against their will in an Iraqi base of the Iranian Mojahedin Khalq under the leadership of Maryam Rajavi.
U.S. forces say they cannot intervene inside the camp, leaving residents unable to access humanitarian help from the ICRC and the UNHCR.
Several cases of retention by force have been confirmed by personal testimony from former captives in the MKO camp who say that basic human rights are being violated daily. Significant among these cases are Iranian prisoners of war (POWs) captured by the Iraqi forces during the eight year Iran-Iraq war and who were then delivered by Saddam Hussein to the Mojahedin to boost numbers.
Nejat Association comprises former members and families of the Camp Ashraf captives. They demand the immediate and full implementation of UN Protected Persons status so that they can have free and unfettered contact with their relatives inside the camp.
Arash Sametipour, a former combatant of the MKO who spent several years in Evin prison says: "We know that the majority of people trapped inside Camp Ashraf would like to leave. We hear this from those who have recently escaped the group. What we are asking is for the international community to implement all the conditions of the Fourth Geneva Convention so that the residents of Camp Ashraf can get help from their families."
Nejat Association says this is a grave humanitarian crisis and that Camp Ashraf residents should not be used as pawns in political wrangles between western governments and Iran.
The Iraqi government has announced that Camp Ashraf must be dismantled and the residents removed from Iraqi territory. Responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of these individuals now rests with western governments and international humanitarian agencies.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A press conference will be held in Paris on Friday, Sept. 22, at 10 a.m.
Salvation
Nejat Society
Tehran, Iran
September 3, 2006
His Excellency Kofi Anan
Secretary General of the United Nations
Your Excellency,
Initially I would like to welcome you to Tehran on behalf of Nejat Society. Subsequently I wish you every success in your journey, and I hope that you would have a pleasant and productive stay in Iran.
Nejat (Salvation) Society consists of former members of the Mojahedin-é Khalq Organization (MKO) who have organized themselves in order to strive to help those members who are still mentally and even physically captive within the Organization in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
You may well be aware that MKO has been listed as a Proscribed Terrorist Group by the US State Department, the Council of EU, and the British Government. This Organization has a long record of violating the most basic principals of Human Rights within its establishment including imprisonment, torture, child abusing, and even murder.
The Human Rights Watch in its latest report under the title of No Exit has tried to describe “Human Rights Abuses inside the Mojahedin-é Khalq Camps in Iraq”. This report explains how the “Exiled Armed Group Abuses Dissident Members”, and how this so called “Opposition Group Seeks Recognition in Western Capitals”.
Hundreds of people, who have managed to flee the Organization and have managed to return home to their families, have described horrendous practices conducted against the discontented members and defected followers. They have also explained how they have been persuaded and manipulated into serving the evil demands of the leaders; and how they have had the experience of being a mind and mental prisoner.
MKO is well known as being a cultic group with all its peculiar and yet typical characteristics. The Organization is led by a self-appointed charismatic leader who enjoys absolute control over the wealth, the lives, and even the minds of the followers. Some of the common manners widely reported inside the Organization are as follows:
• Exercising the Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform.
• Tearing Apart Families and Harming Children.
• Appling Violence and Harassment against Critics and Opponents.
• Engaging into Conspiracy and Fraud.
• Taking Away the Members Freedom as well as their Possessions.
I also wish to draw your good attention to the Case of Ashraf Camp in Iraq. There are some 3000 people living under tight control of MKO in that Camp. These unfortunate individuals find no way to free themselves from the sever domination of the Leaders. They must receive help urgently.
I hence, on behalf of Nejat Society, urge you to the followings:
• Launching a Fact Finding Committee to start investigating inside Iran as well as Iraq and other countries and to contact the numerous Former Members of the Organization in order to reach a good understanding of the Nature and Behavior of MKO. Many ex-members around the world are willing to cooperate with such Committee.
• To bring the Organization under careful and thorough Scrutiny done by Officials of UN, something MKO has always escaped from, and to publicize the findings of such procedure.
• The issues of Terrorism, Violating Basic Right, and Functioning Cultic Approaches in the Organization’s History be under Close Inspection.
Nejat Society would be more than pleased to be able to offer any form of Cooperation in this manner. You are certainly acquainted to the severity of damages Cults can cause to the people and their relatives and families. Therefore you would realize how urgent and important the matter is and how essential it is to do something about it.
We in Nejat Society are anxiously awaiting your positive reply to our request to save and rescue the above mentioned inmates and give them a chance to start a dissent normal life along with their beloved ones back at home.
Sincerely Yours
General Secretary
Salvation
The Bulletin indicates the mortar attacks and bombings of Iranian cities resulted in the injury a of innocent civilians and damage to their property. MKO claimed the responsibility for those operations by issuing press releases following the incidents.
This bulletin as an illustrated, documentary evidence of MKO atrocities, works well to illuminate facts on the terrorist nature of MKO and the cause for its proscription as a terrorist organization.
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