Somayeh Mohammadi

The end of modern slavery

Verdict: to arrest three leading officials of the MKO on kidnapping and hostage taking charges

The efforts made by Mostafa Mohammadi and his wife Mahbubeh with the support of their children Mohammad, Morteza, and Hurieh who are in Canada for three months have paid off. Accepting every risk in Iraq and with the support of human rights activists and the people of Iraq and some of the former members and the families of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO) members the Mohammadis brought their case before an Iraqi court. They charged that they had been beaten and an attempt at kidnap was made by members of the MKO on 7 December 2007. They also protested to the court against the captivity of their daughter Somayeh who was taken to Camp Ashraf in Iraq in 1998 when she was 17 and charged that their son Mohammad Mohammadi was detained illegally by the MKO for five years from 1999 when he was only 15 years old.

The Mohammadi family approached human rights organizations and an Iraqi attorney alolng with UN officials in Iraq and some Iraqi government ministers. The fruit of their efforts was that the judge of the Baghdad Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Abbas Davari, the political liaison of MKO in Camp Ashraf, Mozhgan Parsaii, the Commander of Rajavi’s army in Iraq and Sediqeh Hoseini, the Secretary General of the MKO on the charges of kidnapping and taking hostages. The judge also ordered that Somayeh must be taken away from Camp Ashraf and the MKO must pay compensation to the Mohammadi family.

This is the first official verdict against the MKO by the Iraqi Judicial system and has been issued by one of the highest and most influential courts in Baghdad.

Regarding the verdict given by the court, the Mohammadi family is continuing their campaign to finally release their captive daughter from the hands of the destructive, terrorist MKO cult. They hope that they can start a move to end the modern slavery of the Rajavi Cult. Many individuals were taken to Iraq by Rajavi when they were underage and forced to work hard and as a result many of them suffer from various mental and physical disorders.

The Mohammdi family believe that this first victory which they worked so hard to achieve belongs to all the suffering families of MKO members held mentally and physically captive in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The leaders of the MKO must be taken to court for brainwashing their members and isolating them from the outside world and banning them from contacting their families.

Mohammadi Family, 23 January 2008

January 28, 2008 0 comment

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The Statement No.6 of Somayeh Mohammadi‘s Family

Bagdad – Jan22nd 2008

Dear Iranian, honorable patriots,

Human Rights and political forces, activists and organization,

On Dec18th, a day after the armed kidnapping of me, Mostafa Mohammadi (father) and my wife Mahboube Mohammadi (mother) by MKO’s team who had hired and bribed two Iraqi policemen, they showed a TV interview with our somayeh. The interview has previously been shown on August 20th , 2006. Fortunately, the kidnapping operation ended with MKO’s failure since the Iraqi authorities and American forces helped us.

Now we have no way unless using our least power and possibility in order to rescue our beloved Somayeh from Ashraf where the Mujahedin have sold freedom and humanity to the foreigners. This time we could receive the visa to enter Iraqi territory contrary to two years ago when we stayed in Jordan for two months and we couldn’t get the visa. Therefore, we accepted the risk of living in Iraq and that’s what any family does to save his child’s life.

What did we want Mujahedin to do?

As we have already stated in our previous statement dated on August 27th, 2006 we had only one request and that was to transfer Somaye to a free country so that she (who was taken to Ashraf when she was under the legal age and she’s gown up since years) could decide whether to stay or return to her family in Canada, in a free atmosphere, not the choking atmosphere ruling MKO.

How you can believe Somayeh’s words while her only source of news is the leader of the organization where there is no free TV or radio and she is under the psychological peer pressure.

She accused us as being the mercenaries of Regime, however her brother Mohammad who was taken to Ashraf as a 15-year old teenager ( and was kept there for 5 years working in their military camp) could visit his sister only once a year on New year’s day when both of them whispered their determination to leave MKO. They didn’t dare to declare their decision in the meetings due to despises and humiliations made against Mohammad has so many times noted in his weblog

www.toeme.blogfa.com

We hadn’t travelled to Iraq 8 times after the fall of Saddam, if the American forces hadn’t helped us, if Mohammad wasn’t a Canadian citizen, Mojahedin would have prevented him from leaving Ashraf and he wouldn’t have had a better fate than that of his sister. We wanted the return of our children – Somayeh a 17 year old girl and Mohamamd a 15 year old boy- who had taken to Iraq for a short trip. Is it a crime?

Before the issue of our first statement on August 27th, 2006, we tried to contact all supporters or members of MKO whether by phone or by person some offered their sympathy but didn’t dare to accompany with us. Some told us to keep quiet since the regime would abuse the situation. Some of them closed the doors to us after so many years of friendship. We asked, requested, and insisted them to ask MEK to return our Somayeh to us in a friendly way.

We didn’t like to be on top of the news like any other family. Our children didn’t like to be represented in mass Medias. The only people who like to be on the top of news on the antennas are those who have political objectives struggling for power or those who have a complex to get themselves known. None of the leaders of MKO listened to us. The only message we received was the snicker that “they can’t do anything”. We are nothing but we are parents who are worried about the future of our children.

Some of our close relatives who are MKO’s members persuaded Mohammad to run away because his father (me) is “the regime’s agent” instead of trying to solve our problem in a friendly way via talks. why didn’t they call me” the regime’s agent” when I raised money with Somayeh in the cold or hot weather in the streets? When we weren’t the agent of regime but their honor!?

How do you claim to struggle for democracy while you don’t hear the words of one of your own activists?

To which freedom or democracy movement your action adopts? We’ve learned in Canada that the first step towards democracy is to listen to each and every person’s words.

If the representative of MEK had visited us during the years from 2003 to 2007, would any thing have happened to MKO‘s credit? Or it would increase their credit due to their tolerance for listening to others. We haven’t found Somayeh in the streets and we can’t keep quiet for ever. But we have already stated that any political responsibility and exploitation of IRI is in MKO’s charge because they refused any possibility to talk. They prevented us from visiting our daughter freely. We have also stated that we don’t see any obstacle in order to publish MKO’s documents since it was a way MKO chose but they didn’t win and paternal emotions changed everything.

What Did Mujahedin do with us?

We have lived in Canada for years. We got refugee there in the fear of Islamic Republic .we have been more active than any other MKO supporter, there.

They brought Somayeh to their TV on August 20th, 2006 to accuse us of being regime’s mercenary. What a nice and great lesson to consolidate familial emotions.

They brought her to their TV again on Dec.8th 2007 and called her as a Mujahed so that she insulted us because we had prevented her from struggling against IRI.

You attacked us once in Ashraf in 2004 in front of my son’s eyes. You hit me so I had to go to Americans and ask them to help me to release my son and be their guest as a Canadian citizen.

Why did you attackus on Dec7,2007 and try to kidnap us?

Why do you want to dissuade us from looking for our child with labeling

us as mercenaries?

You boycotted our family after Mohammad returned home in 2004. Then you started your insults and propaganda against us in your various websites and TV channels and never let us to respond and clarify everything for the audience.

You forced three members of our family who are also your victims to publish statements against us.

You reported to Canadian security organization and police about us.

You threatened Mohamamd that if he says anything you will kill him. But your deciet had no function because Mohammad has begun speaking out.

Is it freedom loving to bring out large propaganda against a labor family? Is threatening my family along with your struggle to liberate Iranian people?

Why do you panic talking?

Which struggle are you talking about?

You haven’t had any news of your main leader Masud Rajavi since four years ago!

You haven’t fired even one gun for four years.

You only shot your hatred against your opponents with insults! Mohammad says:”Masud has always told in the meetings that if the US invaded Iraq we would defend ourselves.” Well did you defend? You just left our children alone and ran away.

Mohammad says:” when the American forces were close to us, the low ranking members started to shoot them but the commandants shouted:” don’t shoot. ‘’ And now you haven’t shot for four years.

We are not politicians and we don’t have the science either but is the absence of the leader of a political and military organization after the American invasion, normal? The taking of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah was an example of such a way.

In Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s sons are found and killed in exchange for 15 million dollars and the whole Baath authorities and Saddam‘s assistants are imprisoned or executed, do you need any political science to know that it is not normal that Masud Rajavi is living in his anti-bomb palace in Jalula using his dirty political deals of which our people have always been the victims. ?

Saddam’s power in the political transactions and his benefit in the region were finished. Now how Mostafa and Mahboube Mohammadi and their three children who do construction works to survive without begging dastard, can make a scratch in MEK who view themselves as the biggest Iranian Opposition? Mohammadi family doesn’t have any money to support Canadian politicians to gain their support what Mujahedin did to get the Iraqi visa to take our Somayeh to Iraq and didn’t wait for two months.

For God’s sake tell these people who are proud of their links with Western and American MPs, ”how can Mohammadi Family cause a problem in the regional relation where US, Britain, Saud Arabia, Iran, Jordan and Turkey are involved?

Are Mujahedin telling a lie or is Mohammadi a Superman?

The replacements of prime ministers during Shah’s era which were supported by American and British forces couldn’t prevent the revolution and the release of Mujahedin by people from the prisons.

Masud and Maryam Rajavi,

The problem is not Mostafa Mohammadi or Somayeh but you are the problem because you are selfish and enjoy the bloodshed of thousands of people in order to achieve the power. The problem is Masud Rajavi who doesn’t relinquish any deal to gain the government.

The problem is the ruling system of MKO that has got the control of thoughts of the members.

It is not possible for MKO to continue their financial activities to raise money without showing the manipulated people of Ashraf.

Right or Wrong.

The story of Somayeh is that of right and wrong. The story of the legality of family against those who don’t worth family.

Those who collapse a family under an order and think that the only condition for victory is linking the leadership. Such families spend their day and night with the hope of a miraculous order of leader and victory. But the leader has escaped from the scene. He supposed the supporters as stupids who never ask where he is because the regime would exploit the case.

When there is the case of MKO they let themselves ask any state for help but when the case is a family you should fight against IRI.

MKO’s victory and fall of IRI has no benefit for us except to express our happiness for our expatriates who have been far from us for years.

Our children have been captured in MKO’s evil hands for years. They don’t have any freedom. They are in Ashraf prison. You kept all the talks closed. So you have no way except liberating Somaye , then you can ask us to fight for you.

The organization whose survival depends on Somayeh’s stay shows its discredit and mercenary system.

If the roots of the tree are deep in the soil, it isn’t scared of any wind or storm since after the winter, the spring comes and the blossoms will flourish.

The people will win the Mujahedin. The right always wins the wrong.

Mohammadi Family

Baqdad – Ashura – 2008

January 28, 2008 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

On Rajavi’s Canadian Hostage

Al-Araghiya TV documnetary on Rajavi’s Canadian Hostage Alaraghiay TV broadcasted a documentary about two Canadian sitizens, Mostafa and Mahboobeh Mohammady, who have gone to Iraq in an attempt to rescue their daughter from Mojahedin Khalq Organisation terrorist cult currently under protection of US army in Ashraf camp North of Baghdad.

The full translation of this film will be posted shortly.

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January 22, 2008 0 comment

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Canadian Government says Parents of Girl Trapped in Rajavi cult are in danger

Today at 16:10pm I was informed by Canadian government that according to Iraqi government my parents , Mostafa Mohammadi and My mom, Mahbobeh ( Hamzeh) Mohammadi , are not safe any more in Iraq and asked Canada to help them to be transferred to a safe country.

The Canadian agent expressed the government’s concern on their safety.

Due to conspiracy for failed attempt to abduct my parents in front of Ashraf by Mojahedin khalgh on Dec 7, 2007, my parent are making tireless efforts to bring mojahedin before the justice very soon.

Mojahedin try to terrorize the process of the court for hearing on assault and abduction charges.

Mojahedin offered bribe to the TV station reporter and his boss no to air the report on Soamye and my parents anymore. The offer was rejected by the Al-Iraqia TV .

My parents lives are at risk , I hold Mojahedin khalgh accountable for their safety.

Mohammad Mohamadi, January 12, 2008

January 13, 2008 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Woman brainwashed into staying at guerrilla camp

Bid to overturn refugee board decision

TORONTO – A lawyer accused a Middle Eastern guerrilla group yesterday of luring a teenaged Toronto girl to a paramilitary camp in Iraq and brainwashing her into staying.

Pamila Bhardwaj told a Federal Court judge that Somayeh Mohammady had effectively been kidnapped by the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, a rebel group based in Iraq.

The lawyer made the accusation at a court hearing that could ultimately decide whether Ms. Mohammady will be allowed to return to Canada after a decade with the guerrillas.

The MEK, a designated terrorist organization under Canadian law, says it aims to use”physical force, armed struggle or jihad”to overthrow Iran’s repressive government, according to Ottawa.

In the 1990s, the MEK was recruiting within Canada’s Iranian community and Ms. Mohammady, a refugee from Iran, volunteered with the blessing of her parents, both MEK activists.

In 1997, at the age of 17, she travelled to Camp Ashraf, the MEK guerrilla base north of Baghdad from which it launched its attacks on Iran.

She has been there ever since.

While she was away, the rest of the family became Canadian citizens. But Ms. Mohammady’s landed immigrant status expired because she was not residing in Canada as required by law.

The MEK base was disarmed after the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003, but hundreds of guerrillas remain at the camp, including Ms. Mohammady.

Mustafa Mohammady, her father, has made several trips to Iraq hoping to bring her back to Canada, but Canadian officials will not let her return because she no longer has immigration status here.

The family challenged that decision at the Immigration and Refugee Board last year but Ms. Mohammady torpedoed her own case when she testified by phone from Iraq that she did not want to return to Canada.”I would like to be here,”she said,”because I’m Mujahedin myself and I want to be here.”

Her family believes she has been brainwashed or is afraid to speak her mind, and Ms. Bhardwaj said human rights groups have reported that”defectors”who try to leave the camp are routinely beaten and detained.”She’s under mind control of the MEK,”Mr. Bhardwaj said.

Ms. Bhardwaj told the court yesterday the refugee board’s ruling should be overturned because it did not take that into account, nor did it consider that Ms. Mohammady was a minor when she was recruited into the MEK.

“This decision simply cannot stand,”she said.

But Martin Anderson, the lawyer representing the government in the case, said there was insufficient evidence Ms. Mohammady had been subjected to psychological pressure.”That may be, but there’s not enough evidence before the panel to establish that.”

He also said that even though she was a minor when she first left Canada for the paramilitary camp, she had turned 18 in 1998.”After that time, she’s an adult,”Mr. Anderson said.

Stewart Bell – sbell@nationalpost.com

November 18, 2007 0 comment

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Breaking The Ties that bind

A family torn apart by Mojahedin Khalq Organisation – Rajavi cult

A tale of a family torn apart by lies, deception, and government bureaucracy, “Breaking the Ties That Bind” is a true story of the Mohammady family and their tangled history with the Iranian resistance force known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

By:neha gandhi, CBC Television,

About Somayeh Mohamadi

Somayeh was only 17 when she met the recruiters of the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalagh (MEK) in Toronto. Born into a family with sympathies towards the group and having already lost her favorite aunt in guerrilla fights against Islamic Republic of Iran, Somayeh decided to drop out of her grade 10 high school class at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute and attend a MEK camp in Iraq for a month. Most of all, she was thankful to MEK for offering to pay for her expanses to visit her aunt’s grave. On February, 1998 Somayeh left Toronto to spend a month in what later on turned to be a guerrilla compound called Camp Ashraf, the headquarters of the Organization of the Freedom Fighters of the Iranian People. Somayeh is a now a 25 year old, still living under harsh conditions of Ashraf, despite her parents restless tries to bring her back home. Somayeh is one of the many Canadian and American teenagers who were deceitfully recruited by MEK and send to Camp Ashraf, where they were trained for guerilla fights and forced to stay inevitably. In an independent letter sent to the Canadian embassy in Jordan, Somayeh asks for the Canadian government’s help to get her back to Toronto. Later however, she was forced by MEK in a court hearing to denounce her family and state that she wants to stay with MEK “holy worriers’, now a banned terrorist organization under Canadian law since 2005.

Somayeh’s life has been in great danger in the past 10 years and she is defiantly threatened to comply with MEK’ rules. Her story is very damaging to MEK and as a result the organization does not allow Somayeh to leave camp Ashraf in order to contact or meet with the Canadian Officials in private or in a 3rd party country. This has further complicated her case, as she officially told an immigration judge over satellite phone that she does not wish to return to Canada. Her family and friends know this to be a testimony made under pressure and therefore devoid of any truth. Somayeh is kept like a hostage at Camp Ashraf and must be treated like one.

Family and Friends of Somayeh Mohammadi :

We are Family and Friends of Somayeh Mohammadi who are deeply concerned about her safety as she has been forcefully kept by Mojahedin-e Khalagh (MEK), Iranian guerrilla fighters in Iraq, for the past ten years. Somayeh is one of the many Canadian and American youth who were recruited to monthly camps when they were teenagers, only to be kept like hostages at the headquarters of the Organization of the Freedom Fighters of the Iranian People, Camp Ashraf, Iraq. This website is to raise awareness about Somayeh’s case and help us organize our campaign to save Somayeh.

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August 18, 2007 0 comment

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Documentary on Somayeh Mohammadi Wins Intl. Award

It’s not easy for aspiring filmmakers to get their feet wet in the industry, but Erin Mills resident Simon Chang has done just that.

Chang and his Sheridan College classmate were recently honoured with a prestigious award from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, one of the largest film events in the world. Staged in California, the festival recognizes documentaries and business, educational and entertainment productions.

Writer/narrator Chang and his Toronto producer/researcher, Neha Gandhi, were recipients of the student award in the public issues and concerns category. They won for their documentary, Breaking the Ties that Bind.

“It felt good getting recognition on an international level,” says Chang.

Gandhi said it’s a good start for the young filmmakers, students in Sheridan’s Media Arts program.

“(The festival) was about meeting a lot of filmmakers around the world. It’s a step in the door,” says Gandhi.

Breaking the Ties that Bind is about terrorist organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The film focuses on an Iranian family’s attempt to rescue their daughter from an MEK camp in Iraq. Almost a decade ago, Somayeh Mohammady left Toronto to go to Iraq to learn about her family history. Instead, she was forced to stay at Camp Ashraf, a terrorist camp. She remains there, brainwashed.

Breaking the Ties that Bind features an emotional interview with Mustafa Mohammady, Somayeh’s father.

“(The film has) been compared to professional news programs, like 20/20,” says Chang, a former University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) student.

Gandhi believes their film, one of 115 student entries, won because they touched on a topic that’s impossible to ignore.

“What’s really important for people to know is that other women and children have been brainwashed (by MEK). Today, it’s Somayeh. Tomorrow, it could be anyone else. It’s not an issue that can be overlooked,” explains Gandhi.

The film began as a class project and took six weeks to complete. It was an unforgettable experience for the filmmakers.

“You get so caught up in the story, you have to remind yourself to be objective (as a filmmaker),” says Chang.

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for more information:

somayeh.org

Mississauga News

July 21, 2007 0 comment

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Help for a safe Return of Somayeh From Iraq to Canada

To:

The Honourable Monte Solberg, P.C., M.P.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Ottawa, Ontario

K1A 1L1

Dear Mr. Solberg

We, the undersigned, call on you to conduct a thorough, investigation into the circumstances that led into the abduction of a minor at the time, Somayeh Mohammadi, by the MEK (Mojahedin e Khalgh) organization. We are also at the opinion that she should be joining her family immediately with no more delay caused by the officials. We, strongly believe that it is against our Canadian values to let the organization still be active in our country and lobby our politicians while the pleas of the Mohammadi family is being ignored by the same authorities.

Ms. Somayeh Mohammadi, an Iranian-Canadian student was taken from Canada on a false pretension of, a month long, educational trip to Iraq in 1998 and was kept there since. The devastated Mohammadi family has been trying since to return their beloved child back to Canada. Their efforts included but not limited to over five trips to the dangerous and war torn Iraq. In doing so, they have not spared any resource or efforts to the level that the family is currently unable to support itself by any means.

Considering the limited resources of a working class family, with three more children, which has already suffered beyond imagination vs. the obstacles they face in order to reunite with their daughter and sister we urge the Canadian government to help this family and facilitate this reunion.

In the spirit of the holiday season, while all Canadian families are trying their best to express their love for each other, we urge the government to deal with this issue with kindness and generosity in mind.

We wish to see the Mohammady family celebrate this holiday as a whole for the first time in the past 8 years.

Sincerely,

www.somayeh.org

CC: Hon. Peter Mackay

Sincerely,

somayeh.org – Dec 5, 2006

December 14, 2006 0 comment

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

The new Campaign to save Ashraf residents

The family and friends of Somayeh Mohammadi, forcefully kept in Camp Ashraf by MEK for the past ten years, have started a website in a campaign to save her and other Ashraf residents. With the motto of “LET SOMAYEH CHOOSE IN A FREE COUNTRY”, their objective is “Campaign for “The Right to Choose” for Somayeh and others, who are in Ashraf. The home page introduces the campaigners and represents a brief biography of Somayeh Mohammadi.

Somayeh was only 17 when she met the recruiters of the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalagh (MEK) in Toronto. Born into a family with sympathies towards the group and having already lost her favorite aunt in guerrilla fights against Islamic Republic of Iran, Somayeh decided to drop out of her grade 10 high school class at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute and attend a MEK camp in Iraq for a month. Most of all, she was thankful to MEK for offering to pay for her expanses to visit her aunt’s grave. On February, 1998 Somayeh left Toronto to spend a month in what later on turned to be a guerrilla compound called Camp Ashraf, the headquarters of the Organization of the Freedom Fighters of the Iranian People. Somayeh is a now a 25 year old, still living under harsh conditions of Ashraf, despite her parents’ restless tries to bring her back home. Somayeh is one of the many Canadian and American teenagers who were deceitfully recruited by MEK and send to Camp Ashraf, where they were trained for guerilla fights and forced to stay inevitably. In an independent letter sent to the Canadian embassy in Jordan, Somayeh asks for the Canadian government’s help to get her back to Toronto. Later however, she was forced by MEK in a court hearing to denounce her family and state that she wants to stay with MEK ‘holy worriers’, now a banned terrorist organization under Canadian law since 2005.

Somayeh’s life has been in great danger in the past 10 years and she is defiantly threatened to comply with MEK’s rules. Her story is very damaging to MEK and as a result the organization does not allow Somayeh to leave camp Ashraf in order to contact or meet with the Canadian Officials in private or in a 3rd party country. This has further complicated her case, as she officially told an immigration judge over satellite phone that she does not wish to return to Canada. Her family and friends know this to be a testimony made under pressure and therefore devoid of any truth. Somayeh is kept like a hostage at Camp Ashraf and must be treated like one.

November 27, 2006 0 comment

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

To the care of Royal Canadian Mounted Police

9251 Yonge St. #219

Richmond Hill, ON

L4C 9T3 Canada

http://www.cdhriran.blogspot.com/

Centre for Thought, Dialogue and Human Rights in Iran – Toronto

CTDHR

Oct 2006

To the care of Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Re: Serious concern for the safety of our client and our directors

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to you in order to express my deep concerns regarding the safety of our client Mr. Mohammad Mohammadi as well as two directors of our organization including myself.

As Human Right advocacy group it is our foremost duty to question and challenge any system/individual that violates the fundamentals of the charter that we all believe in. In the past few month we were working on behalf of a Canadian Citizen, Mr. Mustafa Mohammadi, and his family to facilitate the freedom of his young daughter from a military camp in Iraq that is under the control of this Iranian political organization known as “Mojahedin e Khalgh” or MEK.

Since the story of this family was picked up by national media and based on the interest expressed by National Post we collaborated with the NP reporter Mr. Stewart Bell, in various capacity from translator to mediator and the result was a five (5) part series that was published from September 23rd to September 28th on the front page of that paper with the mention to our Centre and repeated quotas from us. Needless to say, this report was not written in the favor of this organization.

Since this organization is active in Canada, as known by your office, the local members have informed their other pockets in North America and Europe hence an extensive campaign started against us. The regular attacks on their various media from TV/Radio programs to the papers and Websites accuses us as being the agents of Iranian Regime, a very old and overplayed rhetoric, and asks their members to “deal” with us.

Since the young Mohammad, he is the brother of the girl in camp Ashraf, was kept in that camp against his will for 4 years in the past he was the key witness in preparation of that article. In the recent days and after the continuation of the threats he is very scared about his own safety which makes us uncomfortable too. Since the clear instruction of this organization, as per their leader and stated in many of their publications, is to eliminate any individual who turns against the organization, defector, his concern for his safety is understandable. At the same time I and another director of our Centre Mr. Saeed Soltanpour, a well known journalist in our community, have been included in many of those threats and accusations.

Knowing the volume of the issues you are dealing with we are not requesting any particular protection at this time but merely to inform you about the situation.

Sincerely Yours

Niaz Salimi

Director, North American Divisions

CTDHR, October 31, 2006

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