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Zahra Moeini<\/p><\/div>\n
Poor life conditions, forced labor<\/strong> Maltreatment<\/strong> MEK leaders stole Children\u2019s money<\/strong>
\nIn Germany, Zahra Moeini was ordered to serve in a three-story house of the MEK in which 50 children were kept in four rooms. \u201cThere were only six rooms,\u201d she explains. \u201cTwo of them were for the commanders of the base and the fifty children had to stay in the other rooms. They had to sleep on the floor too tightly next to each other. In the morning they had to stay in a long line to go to the bathroom.\u201d
\nAccording to Zahra\u2019s testimonies, the children of the MEK were kept under poor sanitary conditions and poor food hygiene. She says, \u201cThe bread was always stale. It was actually the stale bread that the bakeries wanted to send for animals that the MEK agents took them for free. We had to put the bread in the oven before feeding the children.\u201d
\nThe children were supposed to cooperate in the choirs around the house. \u201cThey were always tired,\u201d Zahra says. \u201cWe had to take them to school by bus. The commanders intentionally enrolled the kids at schools far from the house. They fell asleep at school. Their teachers asked us about the reason. These children had to work hard at home. There was no washing machine. They had to wash their clothes. They had to help with preparing foods. For example, in the weekends children had to peel a lot of eggplants or other stuff.\u201d
\nThe children also had to work in the streets to raise fund for the MEK. They were actually workers of the financial-social section too.<\/p>\n![\"MEK](\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MKO_Militia-1.jpg\")
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\nChildren of Mujahed parents had to be trained as Mujahed. The leaders of the MEK had planned to train them as what they called \u201cmilitia\u201d so they were treated as young soldiers. They had to sleep alone. They did not have the right to miss their parents. They did not have the right to ask about their parents. The only letters they receive were from \u201cUncle Massoud\u201d and \u201cAunt Maryam\u201d \u2013Massoud and Maryam Rajavi the leaders of the group.
\nZahra Moeini recalls some of those kids who missed their mother and cried all night. \u201cThey asked me to sleep by their side but the commander of the base did not allow me to get closer to them. If I expressed affection for the kids, I would be punished for not being strict enough to them.\u201d
\nThese distressed children had different problems. One of the problems was bedwetting that resulted in verbal and physical punishments for children. \u201cA woman named Razieh, was really cruel. She shouted at the kid, beat her in the hip and verbally abused her,\u201d Zahra says about the 7- to 8-year-old girl who had wetted her bed.<\/p>\n![\"MEK](\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MEK-Children-1.jpg\")
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\nThe MEK leaders kept children under such poor conditions while German government has one of the most reliable care systems for children in the world. The child benefit is a monthly payment given to all parents in Germany, regardless of their income, to ensure that their children’s basic needs are covered. As Zahra Moeini presents the documents, at the time, the child allowance paid by German government was about 600 marks for each child but the money was confiscated by the MEK leaders. The children had no personal property.
\n\u201cEvery weekend a group of ten children were allowed to go shopping,\u201d Zahra says. \u201cWe took them to a store. Each kid was allowed to shop something for only one mark! The poor child who was watching different snacks and foods, tried to choose something that she could share with her other friends at home. For example, she chose cookies because she could share it with other children who could not go shopping at that weekend.\u201d
\nBased on Zahra\u2019s evidences, no clothes were bought for the children. \u201cAlthough the German government gives annual payments to families for buying clothes for children, the clothes of MEK\u2019s children came from charity organizations or the Red Cross,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n