Letters

Dear Mr. Karim Asad Khan,

I, Taha Hosseini, a resident of Arak, Iran, traveled to Turkey to find a better job and worked there. Unfortunately, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Turkey deceived me and transferred me to Iraq with false promises. When I was transferred to Iraq, they took all my documents and made me nameless, and I had no way back.
I went through difficult days in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, which belonged to the MEK. I asked the MEK to transfer me back to Turkey, but I encountered severe punishment. The imprisoned me in a barrack. Then arranged a crowded meeting and incited the participants to assault me physically and cursing at me. After the meeting they took me back to the barrack. They threatened me with death.
Mr. Karim Asad Khan
The slogans of the MEK regarding freedom are false. There is no freedom in the MEK. They answer to any kind of criticism with violence. I have complaint against the criminal leaders of the MEK and I ask you to follow up on my complaint. I wish that the leaders of the MEK would be tried in an international court.

Sincerely,
Taha Hosseini
Arak – Iran

Taha Hosseini; the MEK former member

Dear Mr. Karim Khan,

I am Hojjatollah Sattar, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, PMOI, Rajavi Cult) and one of the plaintiffs against the leaders of the organization who was captured by the forces of the MEK during the Iran-Iraq war.
I was in the organization for only one year but in just one year I grew old as if I were there for several years due to mental and physical pressures I suffered. During this one year of imprisonment, I endured hardship that is hard to believe for everyone.
I was a prisoner of war who should have been treated according to the Geneva Conventions on Prisoners of War, but that was not the case. I was never allowed to report my captivity to my family or to have my captivity registered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
During this period of captivity in the MEK, I was always under the most intense stressful sessions of brainwashing and mind control. The leaders of the MEK sought to have my mind enslaved, just as they had my body in custody. To achieve such a goal, I had to attend their ideological meetings and, at the end, I had to express my opinion and perception of it. These meetings were held when I was very tired and exhausted after a tough workday.
In the MEK, members were allowed to leave the dormitory no later than 23:30. Not only me, as a prisoner of war, but also none of the members of the organization had access to any means of communication such as telephone, post, the Internet, radio, television, newspapers, and so on.
At that time, I had to receive the news from the organization’s own television because our only source of access to the news was the MEK TV channel, which was also selected for those who gathered in the public hall for lunch or supper at certain times.

Mr. Karim Khan
In the Rajavi Cult, marriage, having a family and children are forbidden. Even all members who were married were forced to divorce their spouses under Massoud Rajavi’s order, which is a clear example of genocide. They did not even have mercy on families who had children. At the behest of the organization, all children were forcibly sent from Iraq to other countries and were sold to families in those countries. The leaders did not want the children to emotionally influence on their parents.
This was a small part that I witnessed during that one-year period. Certainly, other members and defectors of the MEK have more documents to provide the court.
Please take our cases into consideration in the investigation of the crimes of the MEK leaders.

Sincerely,
Hojjatollah Sattar
A Survivor of the Rajavi Cult

Hojjatollah Sattar; the MEK former member

To the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Dear Mr. Karim Asad Ahmad Khan
I am Abdollah Afghan from Mazandaran province in Iran. I am a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) who has complained against the leaders of this organization. I was a captive of the Rajavi Cult for 16 years in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. There, I was tortured mentally and physically.
We had no personal right. There was no newspaper, radio, television or the Internet at Camp Ashraf in the MEK in Iraq. We had no right to communicate with our family at all and our family was completely unaware of our situation.
At Camp Ashraf, only brainwashing, mental and physical stress, unpaid forced labor, and an uncertain future existed.
Hereby, I request you to follow our complaint and bring the leaders of the Rajavi Cult to justice. I am willing to appear in any court as a plaintiff or witness if necessary.

Thanks,
Abdollah Afghan
Mazandaran – Iran

Abdollah Afghan; former member of the MEK

Dear Mr. Karim A. A. Khan QC,
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

I am Hadi Shabani, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult). I was a member of the group for nearly two decades. (From 1985 to 2004)
I was shot in the abdomen in an operation called Forough-e Javidan, which was carried out by the MEK forces in cooperation with Saddam Hussein’s forces against the defenders of our homeland Iran. I regained my health after nearly three years; however, I still feel severe pain in the abdomen constantly.

The leaders of the MEK didn’t allow me to call my family and inform them of my health since I joined the organization in 1985. I was not even allowed to listen to the radio in the organization.
In 1988, a few months after Operation Forough-e Javidan, I witnessed that all men and women who were married were forced to divorce, and I, who was single, was not allowed to marry like other people. Massoud Rajavi stated in public meetings that marriage was forbidden for all members of the organization for the rest of their lives. The only one who had wife and family was Massoud Rajavi himself.
According to the doctrine of the MEK’s internal ideological revolution which was initiated by Massoud Rajavi, all women are married to him, and in this way he built a harem for himself while forbidding other men from even talking to their own wives.

Regarding psychological pressures, I must say that in the MEK, by conducting daily and weekly brainwashing sessions, which in cultic culture is known as “peer pressure”, they put pressure on everyone, and I, like everyone else, was under this organizational pressure. That is, there was a constant torture and repression in the relationship and no one dared to protest.
Massoud Rajavi constantly stated in public meetings that the members should forget about their family and no one should even think about them. We had to participate to daily and weekly sessions of confessions and declare all our thoughts and dreams in front of other members. The confessions were followed up by blame and psychological and physical punishments.

While the most dangerous prisoners anywhere in the world have the right to visit their next-of-kin, in the Rajavi Cult there was no right of communication with the family.
When I escaped from the MEK and went to the camp of the American forces called TIPF, I did not even have clothes to wear and the officials of the organization did not give me clothes and I spent a long time in TIPF without clothes. This was while I had spent all my youth in the MEK relations. I did not receive any money for years of hard work.
As a victim of the MEK, who lost his youth in the organization’s relations, I complain against the leaders of this organization. As a mind control destructive cult, the organization continues to perpetuate modern slavery and brainwashing members in Albania. I ask you to prosecute the leaders of this cult. I am ready to testify wherever necessary.

Hadi Shabani
Former member of the MEK
Sari – Mazandaran – Iran

Hadi Shabani

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
The Hague

Dear Mr. Karim Khan,
I am Shir-Ahmad Rouzrokh, a resident of Golestan province in Iran, who was detained by the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in the Ashraf garrison in Iraq for 27 years.
I was first captured by Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq war. Due to the severe physical torture in the POW camp in Iraq and the harsh conditions there, I was deceived by the false promises of the MEK that came to the camp.
During nearly three decades that I was imprisoned by the MEK, I was subjected to severe mental and even physical torture by them. I was forced to do unpaid heavy physical work there, so now I have a blood clotting disease, which, according to the doctor, is due to the hard and exhausting work that I was forced to do at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

Mr. Prosecutor
Now that there is an opportunity to handle the complaints, I would like to complain about the leaders of the MEK because of the mental and physical pressures as well as the irreparable physical injuries. I am ready to file a complaint am ready to testify in any court.

Thanks,
Shir-Ahmad Rouzrokh
Golestan – Iran

Shir Ahmad Rouzrokh; the MEK former member

Dear Mr. Karim Khan
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

I am Abolqasem Rezaei Mehrabadi, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) and one of the plaintiffs against the leaders of this organization.
I was a soldier who was captured by the MEK forces during the Iran-Iraq war. I spent about seven years of my life in the captivity of this organization. There were many people like me who were captured by the MEK during the war. We were expected to be treated according to the Geneva Convention and the rules of the International Committee of the Red Cross, but this was never the case.

During the few years that I was in the captivity of the MEK, I endured all kinds of psychological and even physical pressures along with heavy and exhausting forced labor, which still does not leave me in the form of nightmares after many years.

During this time of captivity, our bodies as well as our minds were captive. The organization always put us under the most intense brainwashing and mind control processes by holding numerous psychological sessions.
We had to work from the first hours of the day until late at night, which was part of our daily routine. After that, in a state of extreme fatigue, we had to attend confessions and self-criticism sessions and psychological pressures.

All around the headquarters of the MEK, they surrounded the embankment with barbed wire. Camp Ashraf was surrounded by high fences, and the tops of the fences were closed not to the outside but to the inside with barbed wire so that no one could escape from inside. The guards were even ordered to arrest anyone who approached the fence from inside, and to shoot if he did not pay attention. We were a number of friends who were captured together, but even though we were in the same camp, we were never allowed to meet.

For the entire seven years that I was in captivity, my family was completely unaware of my condition and had no knowledge of my fate. Regulations imposed at Camp Ashraf are not enforced anywhere else in the world, not even in the most dreadful prisons. Having any contact with our families were forbidden. Even requesting for contact had dire consequences.
Married members were forced to divorce, and many children were separated from their parents and sent to European and American countries, the fate of some of whom is unknown.

Mr. Karim Khan,
These few lines do not describe all the hardships and sufferings I endured. Please consider these cases in the investigation of the crimes of the leaders of the MEK so that it leads to a fair result and the facts become clear to everyone.

Thank you for your attention
Asghar Rezaei Mehrabadi
Surviving member of the Rajavi Cult

Asghar Rezaei Mehrabadi; the MEK former member