Mohammad Hemadi was 24 years old wen he joined the Mujahedn-e Khalq (MEK) in Iraq. As a politically motivated young Iranian, he had decided to join the group in order to fight the Iranian government but the MEK leaders did not believe him. They kept him in the reception unit of their headquarters in Iraq for almost 5 years.
The MEK commanders even delivered him to Iraqi intelligence department where he was imprisoned and tortured for 2 years. In 2000, finally the MEK accepted Mahammad as an organizational member. They never apologized for what he had endured under the unproved accusation of being an Iranian spy.
Mohammad was a member of the MEK for 17 years. In 2012 when he left Camp Ashraf he was already very sick. “Despite the fact that my brother has been suffering from this disease for nearly 2 years, the leaders of the terrorist Cult of Rajavi not only refused to take any action to treat him, but by accusing him of malingering, they subjected him to the most severe anti-human forced labor in the cult,” Hassan Hemadi told Nejat Society after Mommad died.
Mohammad Hemadi died only ten days after he returned to his home town Ahvaz, Iran. In previous years, his brother had gone to Camp Ashraf to visit him but the MEK leaders did not allow them to visit. Hassan found a chance to pass a letter to his brother through the fences. Eventually, the MEK commanders had forced Mohammad to show up in the group’s TV channel to speak against his family.
Hassan said that in the first contact he had with his brother Mohammad after leaving the organization, Mohammad had announced that his interview with the MEK’s TV against his family was done under the pressure of the group leaders.
After leaving the cult, in the first phone calls, Hassan felt that Mohammad was having trouble saying words. “I was upset about this issue, he said that he had been suffering from severe headaches for a long time in the MEK, but they had only taken him to their clinic at Camp Ashraf!”, he recounts.
They took x-ray of his head but never told him what the cause was! “I even asked them to send me outside of Ashraf for treatment but they did not accept,” Mohammad told his brother. “Only if a high-ranking official fell ill, they would send him outside of Ashraf for treatment. When your letter reached me and you told me about outer space, I made up my mind to run away, I found a good excuse and went to the authorities and said that now that you are not sending me outside for treatment, I want to pursue my treatment myself. They finally let me go.”
With the help of a friend Mohammad moved to Turkey but his health conditions were so bad that he could not live alone. His friend called Hassan and asked him to come over. Hassan went to Turkey immediately and brought Mohammad home.
“He was not even able to eat or sit on his bed alone,” Hassan said. “Without informing the Red Cross or even the Iranian government, I brought him to Iran. We immediately took him to a specialist doctor for treatment. Nothing could be done because his brain tumor had progressed too much. The doctor told us to just take him home to rest. Unfortunately, he didn’t last more than 10 days and passed away.”
Mohammad Hemadi was a member of the Cult of Rajavi for 17 years. He lost his youth and physical health inside the cult.
After he left the group, he declared his separation from the MEK in a letter. The following is the ending part of his letter, translated to English:
“Considering the atrocities that the organization did to me and denied me the least treatment and left me alone, and with the deceptions and tricks that this evil cult brought on the youth of Iran, it was time that I admit the mistake I made for 17 years. I declare my separation from the dirty and treacherous cult.”