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.
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.
Striking down the boundaries
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.
Download MKO TERRORIST OPERATIONS- Unit 1
Download MKO TERRORIST OPERATIONS Unit 2
Download MKO TERRORIST OPERATIONS – Unit 3
Download MKO TERRORIST OPERATIONS – Unit 4
Following the call for gathering documents relating the cooperation and sympathy of Rajavi’s Cult and Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, published by NejatNGO on April 6th, unbelievably, we received hundreds of valuable papers which were mostly emailed by Kurdish organizations. The documents that have been translated to Persian present evidences of MKO’s war crimes during its two-decade presence in Iraq. These undeniable and legal documents were also confirmed by Nejat Society’s international lawyers in Europe.
Among the documents sent to Nejat NGO, you can view an important one which indicates the deep scandal of an anti Iranians cult. The paper explains that Iraqi Intelligence Service under Saddam Hussein, in a brief letter to Saddam Hussein’s office, providing a description on MKO, declares that Mujahedin-e-Khalq applied for logistical equipments and facilities and Oil! In the third paragraph of the letter quoting MKO, it is clearly written that "MKO is ready to operate special operations against security and military aims in Iranian frontier provinces!
(To view the original and translated letter click here)
Call for cooperation
All the correspondence concerning this case exist, but only the report that MKO had provided Saddam’s office and was attached to this letter has been lost. Therefore, appreciating the cooperation of all our compatriots on this issue; we should be pleased to receive the original document of MKO’s report at Nejat NGO’s email address.
Being sure of the objective we have in mind and the way we are succeeding to achieve it, relying on suffered families of MKO’s members, mentally and physically captured in the bars of Rajavi’s cult, we promise their freedom although we deeply believe that we have to work hard. We also believe that we will be successful.
Nejat Society
August 5th, 2006
Nejat Society Tehran, Iran July 2006 His Excellency, Nuri Al-Máliki The Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq Baghdad, Iraq Your Excellency, Respectfully, we would like to acknowledge that the members and authorities of Nejat Society in Iran are most contented with your latest decisive stance regarding that the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO), which is internationally categorised as a terrorist group, should be expelled from Iraq.
Nejat Society is consisted of those ex-members of the MKO who managed to free themselves from the mental and even physical barriers of the Organisation. The main object of the Society is of course to try to help the previous comrades in such way that they be able to free themselves too and start a decent normal life again along with their families and beloved ones.
There is one undeniable fact that MKO and its National Liberation Army (NLA) have been an inseparable part of Saddam Hussein’s Regime and have even participated along the forces of the Deposed Despot to suppress the People of Iraq’s freedom movement in 1991. The Organisation is also responsible for many sabotage and terrorist activities inside Iran through the years.
You are probably aware that around 3000 members of MKO are residing in Ashraf Camp (Al-Khalis Garrison) under the control of the US Army. These people have no connection with their families what so ever and they have all been somehow brainwashed by the leaders and kept unaware about the outside world. They are systematically manipulated to serve in the benefits of the leaders.
Nejat Society finds its duty to try to bring these people out of their misery and once again introduce them to the normal life and the real world. In other words these people must be helped to survive from the state of captivity that they are experiencing at the moment. Driving them out of Iraq would mean liberating them from the hand of their capturers.
Expelling the members of MKO in a way that they no longer could be controlled by the leaders of the Organisation would be to their own best interests and that of their families. Once they become freed from the barriers of the Organisation and be let to think and decide independently and find themselves in a new world, they would certainly be most pleased about their new situation out of the Organisation’s control.
MKO would of course like to keep hold of the Ashraf Camp since it provides them a good opportunity to withhold the members isolated from the outside world. Therefore they would most definitely launch a public relation (PR) campaign to give a fake image that the majority of the Iranians are against the decision of the Government of Iraq. They would as a normal procedure try to falsely impress you by bombarding the office of the Prime Minister with fabricated letters.
As far as the Americans are concerned they are just passing time to see what would be the outcome in the future. It seems that they are not certain what to do with them. Some 600 people have defected from the MKO in Iraq since the collapse of Saddam Hussein while about 400 of them have managed to come back to Iran to their families and start a new life. Around 200 are therefore still with the TIPF alongside Ashraf Camp.
Let’s wish that all these unfortunate people who have been utilised by Massoud Rajavi in Iraq against the two great nations of Iraq and Iran as well as their families and have also suffered through the years for missing their beloved ones would soon gain reunion and start a new prosperous life.
With many thanks for your attention and with best regards
Nejat Society