{"id":13987,"date":"2022-04-25T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T10:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=13987"},"modified":"2022-04-25T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T10:38:14","slug":"my-father-is-a-prisoner-of-the-mek-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/13987","title":{"rendered":"My father is a prisoner of the MEK Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leila was only two years old when her father left Iran. \u201dMy father and I have never heard each other\u2019s voice\u201d, she says. Leila has no memory of her father.<\/p>\n<p>Leila\u2019s father; Rahim Kiukan who as a supporter of the MEK was brainwashed by the instincts of the MEK cult left his family in 1981 and joined the group in Iraq. The family have had no news of him since then.<br \/>\nA 10 cm family photo, is the only memory, Leila has of his father.<\/p>\n<p>A court session has been held in Tehran in March 2021, to look into the complaints filed a by a group of the MEK ex-memebrs, who have managed to leave the group after several years of being under torture and oppression by the cult leaders. Leila participated the court session as a victim of the group. Here is part of the interview with Ms. Kiukan:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-13987-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Interview\/Kiukan-Leila-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Interview\/Kiukan-Leila-2.mp4\">https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Interview\/Kiukan-Leila-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Interview\/Kiukan-Leila-2.mp4\">to download the video file click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leila was only two years old when her father left Iran. \u201dMy father and I have never heard each other\u2019s voice\u201d, she says. Leila has no memory of her father.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[599,24458],"module":[78],"ctype":[26],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-13987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organization-members-families","tag-mko-bar-reunion-families","tag-rahim-kiukan","module-interview","ctype-videos","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=13987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}