\nMohammad Reza\u2019s biological mother, Zahra Seraj<\/strong>, is still under the MEK\u2019s brainwashing structure and denies him as her son because, as she says, \u201che is a traitor to the organization<\/em>\u201d. In his recent Facebook post, Mohammad Reza asks the MEK leaders to explain how his father was killed under the torture in the group\u2019s prison.
\n\u201c28 years after the death of my father, I just got to know about the whereabouts of his grave<\/em>,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Mujahed mother and aunts and those who killed my father did not tell me about it but I was told by witnesses of their crime. When I arrived in the MEK\u2019s base in Iraq in 1999, I realized that my father had died 5 years earlier. I should state that I was just informed how and by who he was killed after 23 years when I left the MEK in 2017. My Mujahed mother and all those who call themselves unique revolutionaries lied to me for a long time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mohammad Reza Torabi regrets all those years that he lived in close connection with the killers of his father. \u201cI used to work with those who are responsible for the killing of my father in Camp Ashraf,\u201d he writes. \u201cI used to live with them, eat with the, kiss and hug them, look in their eyes while I did not know anything about what they did to my father<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mohammad Reza Torabi<\/p><\/div>\n
Four years after his defection from the Cult of Rajavi, the son of Ghorbani Ali Torabi is now ready to receive any information on the murder of his father by the side of the witnesses. \u201cI\u2019d say that I am ready to talk to any individual receiving any document and testimony in order to find the truth about my father<\/em>,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n
It is worth to know that the internationally documented testimony about the murder of Ghorban Ali Torabi was first published by the Human Rights Watch, in April 2005. The report was titled \u201cNo Exit<\/a>: Human Rights Abuses Inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps<\/strong>\u201d. Even in the summary of the HRW\u2019s report, the case of Torabi as a person who was killed by the MEK torturers was brought up:
\nHuman Rights Watch interviewed five of these former MKO members who were held in Abu Ghraib prison. Their testimonies, together with testimonies collected from seven other former MKO members, paint a grim picture of how the organization treated its members, particularly those who held dissenting opinions or expressed an intent to leave the organization.<\/p>\nThe former MKO members reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings, and torture of dissident members. The MKO held political dissidents in its internal prisons during the 1990s and later turned over many of them to Iraqi authorities, who held them in Abu Ghraib. In one case, Mohammad Hussein Sobhani was held in solitary confinement for eight-and-a-half years inside the MKO camps, from September 1992 to January 2001.
\nThe witnesses reported two cases of deaths under interrogation. Three dissident members\u2014Abbas Sadeghinejad, Ali Ghashghavi, and Alireza Mir Asgari\u2014witnessed the death of a fellow dissident, Parviz Ahmadi, inside their prison cell in Camp Ashraf. Abbas Sadeghinejad told Human Rights Watch that he also witnessed the death of another prisoner, Ghorbanali Torabi, after Torabi was returned from an interrogation session to a prison cell that he shared with Sadeghinejad.<\/p>\nGhorbanAli Torabi Qorban was tortured to death by the MEK<\/p><\/div>\n
At the time, the No Exit report was expectably labeled by the MEK\u2019s paid lobby a group known as Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI), comprising four Members of the European Parliament \u2013 Alejo Vidal Quadras, Paulo Casaca, Andre Brie, and Struan Stevenson, as \u201corchestrated by Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence\u201d!
\nThus, in February 24, 2006, HRW<\/a> published a \u201cstatement<\/a> on Responses to Human Rights Watch Report on Abuses by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)\u201d, in which the testimonies about the killing of Torabi were once more confirmed:<\/p>\nTheir responses, in the view of Human Rights Watch, confirm the credibility and reliability of their original testimonies in No Exit. The Human Rights Watch report contained allegations by witnesses that two MKO members, Ghorbanali Torabi<\/strong> and Parviz Ahmadi<\/strong>, died as a result of abuse suffered in MKO detention. The FOFI document challenged these testimonies.<\/p>\n
With regard to Ghorbanali Torabi\u2019s death, the FOFI delegation interviewed two MKO members in Camp Ashraf who disputed these testimonies. These two MKO members, Zahra Seraj, Torabi\u2019s wife, and Masoume Torabi, Torabi\u2019s sister, told the FOFI delegation that he had died of a heart attack, and not as a result of beatings at the hands of MKO officials. Neither of them claimed to have been present when he died. According to a communication to Human Rights Watch from Lord Avebury, who said he had interviewed Masouma Torabi by telephone on June 13, 2005, \u201cMasouma saw Ghorbanali a week before he died.\u201d<\/p>\n
Human Rights Watch again questioned Abbas Sadeghinejad<\/strong>, one of Human Right Watch\u2019s original sources on these events, about Torabi\u2019s death. Abbas Sadeghinejad confirmed his earlier testimony, based on his experience of sharing a prison cell with Torabi. He again told Human Rights Watch that late one night, after Torabi had been taken out of the cell for two days, two men carried Torabi back to the cell, threw him inside, and locked the cell again. Torabi, Sadeghinejad said, was not breathing and his face showed signs of severe beating. He said that other cellmates examined Torabi more closely and believed that he had suffered broken bones. Sadeghinejad acknowledged that Torabi may have died of a heart attack, but maintained that the MKO had severely beaten Torabi, apparently during interrogation.<\/p>\n
Alireza Mir Asgari<\/strong> corroborated the fact of Torabi\u2019s detention and ill-treatment at the hands of the MKO, based on his own direct experience. Mir Asgari told Human Rights Watch that the MKO also detained him at the time Torabi was detained. He said that he knew Torabi well as a child in Iran, and that Torabi had recruited him in Tehran at the age of seventeen to join the MKO ranks in Iraq. Mir Asgari told Human Rights Watch that during his detention in 1995, he encountered Torabi face-to-face during an interrogation session. He said that the interrogators questioned them both about Torabi\u2019s motivation for recruiting Mir Asgari to the MKO camps in Iraq and accused them of working for the Iranian government. Mir Asgari said that when he met Torabi during this interrogation, Torabi\u2019s body showed signs of beatings and physical abuse.<\/p>\n
Mir Asgari told Human Rights Watch that when he raised the subject of Torabi\u2019s death with MKO leader Massoud Rajavi, Rajavi alternately responded that Torabi had committed suicide and that Mir Asgari and other prisoners had themselves killed Torabi because they suspected him of being an informant. He said Rajavi at no point claimed that Torabi had died from a heart attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
Besides, there are numerous testimonies presented in Persian by other former members of the MEK about the death of Ghorban Ali Torabi under torture. Mohammad Razaghi, Siamak Naderi, Alireza and many others who do not want their names to be exposed, testified that Ghorban Ali was brought to the cell where twenty other MEK members were imprisoned. He had bean beaten to death. It was just two weeks to the Persian New Year, in the winter of 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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