{"id":1582,"date":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2007\/11\/18\/swedish-mps-slammed-over-terrorist-mojahedin-khalq-meeting\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:25:25","slug":"swedish-mps-slammed-over-terrorist-mojahedin-khalq-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1582","title":{"rendered":"Swedish MPs slammed over terrorist Mojahedin Khalq meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Two Swedish lawmakers have been criticized after their recent participation in a panel organized by an anti-Iranian terrorist group. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">The Members of Parliament Anne Ludvigsson and Bjorn Leivik attended a panel debate entitled Human Rights in Iran aimed at removing the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) from the EU&#8217;s terror list. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">&#8220;The meeting was reportedly organized by the Organization of the United Associations for a Free Iran (FFFI) [affiliated to the MKO],&#8221;the Swedish SvD daily wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">It is inappropriate for Bjorn Leivik and Anne Ludvigsson to have participated in a panel debate arranged by an organization known to be terrorist, cult-like and brutal,<\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri\"> said Majed Safaee, an Iranian blogger residing in Sweden. <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">He also underlined that Human Rights Watch has described how the group had harassed ex-members and used torture at their camps in Iraq under Saddam&#8217;s rule. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">The MKO has committed terrorist acts against the Iranian nation and collaborated with Saddam&#8217;s regime in its bloody crackdown on Iraqi Kurds and Shias. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Iraqi officials have long tried to bring the group&#8217;s leader Masoud Rajavi to justice over his role in the massacre of Iraqi people.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Human Rights Abuses Inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps (HRW, May 2005) <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/backgrounder\/mena\/iran0505\/No\">http:\/\/hrw.org\/backgrounder\/mena\/iran0505\/ <\/a>Exit <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\"> No<\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Human Rights Abuses Inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">I. Summary <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Methodology <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">II. Background <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">III. Rise of Dissent inside the MKO <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Operation Eternal Light <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Compulsory Divorce <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Security Clearances<\/span><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri\">\u009d <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">IV. Human Rights Abuses in the MKO Camps <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">V. Testimonies <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Mohammad Hussein Sobhani <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Yasser Ezati <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Farhad Javaheri-Yar <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Ali Ghashghavi <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Alireza Mir Asgari <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Akbar Akbari <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Sayed Amir Mowaseghi <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">May 2005<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\">Press TV, reprting from SvD daily, Sweden, November 15, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail.aspx?id=31188&amp;sectionid=351020101\">http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail.aspx?id=31188&amp;sectionid=351020101<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Members of Parliament Anne Ludvigsson and Bjorn Leivik attended a panel debate entitled Human Rights in Iran aimed at removing the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) from the EU&#8217;s terror list. &#8220;The meeting was reportedly organized by the Organization of the United Associations for a Free Iran ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[83,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[25],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sweden","tag-mko-news","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-press-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}