The former MKO members reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings, and torture of dissident members….The witnesses reported two cases of deaths under interrogation.
Research Note of Department of The Parliamentary Library – Behind the MEK
An armed Iranian exile group listed as a terrorist organization by the USA and European Union may now get US support to help topple Iran’s ruling regime. The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has its European headquarters in Norway.Although the MKO has been listed as a terrorist organization by the USA and EU since 1997 and its leaders are banished from most European nations, it is not listed by the United Nations.
MEK took up residence in Iraq, where they were given sanctuary and armed by Saddam Hussein. They fought against their own country on the Iraqi side during the long Iran-Iraq war. During the U.S. invasion of Iraq, MEK carried out military operations in defense of the Ba’athist regime, and its main base came under attack by U.S. forces …Their fate has become a political football, pitting the U.S. State Department against the neoconservatives in Washington who now have Iran fixed in their sights. The neocons are pushing the idea that we can use the MEK to overthrow the Iranian regime
State, Treasury and Justice departments closed the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) or PMOI on Friday, placing notices on its doors declaring that it was now banned, officials said. …suspected members of the group in the United States had been notified that their continued affiliation was now illegal.
Seven people were arrested at Los Angeles’ international airport on 27 February on charges of raising over $1 million for the MKO/PMOI. In a tactic common to MKO operatives, they posed as charity workers and solicited funds for orphans…This investigation has revealed that the money was really used to support terrorist actions..The operation was initiated by the German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), which informed the FBI
A human rights group Thursday leveled charges of torture, psychological abuse and even murder against an Iranian dissident organization ..Human Rights Watch, the international advocacy group, made the charges in a report based on people who describe themselves as dissidents and defectors from the group, the Mujahedin al-Khalq or MEK or PMOI. Former members, interviewed by human rights watch, ?reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements,…
Who was responsible for the Najaf bombing, in which 125 people were killed including the leader of the pro-Iranian Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)?
most of them Iranian Americans or exiles, recently flocked to Washington … the march seemed like a protest by concerned Iranians who supported regime change in Iran. In reality, it was a meticulously orchestrated political rally in support of a violent, pseudo-Marxist Iranian religious cult –
Pentagon adviser Richard N. Perle, a strong advocate of war against Iraq, spoke last weekend at a charity event that U.S. officials say may have had ties to an alleged terrorist group seeking to topple the Iranian government and backed by SaddamHussein….Perle, in an interview, said he was unaware of any involvement by the terrorist group, known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and believed he was assisting the victims of the Bam earthquake