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“The children of Camp Ashraf” – cult life and fight to the death

The documentary ” Children of Camp Ashraf” sheds new light on a dramatic and violent migration story filled with traumatized children, including the controversial moderate politician, Hanif Bali.

In the late 70s, Iranian students founded a revolutionary movement, the People’s Mujahedin, which helped put an end to the Shah’s regime. However, the dream of a secular, democratic and socialist country was short-lived. Ayatollah Khomeini, as you know, wanted something different for Iran. The mujahedin members once again found themselves in opposition.

Somewhere there, the movement was radicalized, which found a new home in dictator Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. From the Camp Ashraf military base, they continued to fight the power in their homeland. When the fighting became too severe, all the children were evacuated. Just over a hundred ended up in Sweden, the vast majority without their parents – often placed in foster homes that sympathized with the biological parents’ struggle – with the goal that the children would return as child soldiers as soon as they were old enough.

This is not an entirely new story. Rinkeby policeman Hanif Azizi has told about his life as a Mujahedin child in the book “Suburban Cop” (2021). Last year, Atefeh Sebdani, digital strategist and author, published “My Hand in Mine” with a similar arrangement. But the documentary “The Children of Camp Ashraf” expands the story of Sebdani and the other children in an even more striking way. Much thanks to a fascinatingly rich archive material. The story oscillates between the past – with euphoric images of life in the camp, where the children swarm around cared for by everyone and no one in a kind of non-normative extended family – and the present, where four adults in Sweden recount their traumas from childhood.

It is in many ways an absolutely incredible story of betrayal on many levels. The parents who chose fighting within the sometimes-terror-labeled organization over their children, but also about Sweden and its social service that obviously made a lot of mistakes. Among the most famous people who appear in the film is the controversial politician Hanif Bali (m), who ended up in Sweden at the age of 3 and went from one foster home to another foster home throughout his childhood.

Amir Yaghmaei at Camp Ashraf-Iraq

At the center, however, is the environmental consultant Amir Vafa, who deals with his trauma most movingly. Among other things, by searching for an elusive father in Paris and a poignant attempt to reconnect with the mother who remains in the movement’s military camp, now relocated to Albania.

You may lack context and a little more explanatory fact. It’s such a complex story – politically, historically and socially – that it feels like a lot of prior knowledge is required to really grasp it. At the same time, there are enough talking pictures to still get close to the main characters. At times it is exciting like a thriller, at times “The Children from Camp Ashraf” plumbs existential depths about parenting and cult life in an intelligent and poignant way. On a more general level, there are lessons of wisdom and strong lessons to be learned from the film about the difficult art of healing wounds and taking command of one’s own story.

DAGEN NYHTER, By Helena Lindbald

June 15, 2024 0 comments

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Why is le Monde’s investigative report on the MEK child soldiers worth to read?

The French newspaper Le Monde published a detailed report about former child soldiers of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). This report, written by Ghazal Golshiri, has four full pages of this widely circulated newspaper. It is titled: “We, the child-soldiers of the Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalq”. The publication of the report is important based on different aspects.
After the publication of the life story of Amin Gol Maryami, a former child soldier of the MEK, in Germany’s De Zeit magazine at the end of 2021 and the screening of the documentary “Children of Camp Ashraf” in Sweden at the beginning of this year, four full pages of the national newspaper of France were dedicated to this topic. It can be a big step in the advancement of the army of former child soldiers against the leaders of the MEK.

Le Monde, on top of French newspapers

With a circulation of more than 472,000 copies per day, Le Monde was regarded as the most widely circulated French national newspaper in 2022. This French flagship publication introduces its mission to provide the latest news coverage about France and the whole world, with a unique perspective and in-depth analysis. The well-known publication Le Monde is published in a country that has been the safe haven of the People’s Mojahedin Organization for more than four decades.
The main base of the National Council of Resistance, the political wing of the MEK, and Maryam Rajavi’s residence is in the suburbs of the capital, in Auver sur d’oise region. The citizens of Paris and Auver sur d’Oise are used to regularly seeing members of the MEK, women wearing scarves and uniforms, holding book tables and demonstrations around the city squares. Many former French politicians have expressed their support for this organization in terms of being received at the group headquarters and being paid for a ten-minute speech in favor of the MEK.

Ghazal Golshiri and dozens of witnesses of child soldiers

As a Le Monde journalist covering the Middle East, Ghazal Golshiri has journalistic records in Iran, Afghanistan and Europe, focusing on Iran and Afghanistan issues. As a professional, investigative journalist, he has published various reports in Persian, English and French. Covering the protests after the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, Ghazal Golshiri published several reports about the incidents in Iran in Le Monde.

Following the publication of her recent report in Le Monde, Golshiri wrote on her account on the X social network: “More than a year of work, dozens of witnesses and a hardworking team. I am very proud of this investigative report.”
Ghazal Golshiri is proud of the results of a year of interviewing witnesses MEK’s exploiting child soldiers, while she certainly knows that she will soon be the target of unjust accusations and slanders by the group. Louisa Homrich, the author of the Zeit article, and Sara Moin, the director of t “Children of Camp Ashraf”, were attacked and hated by the MEK media and their agents. At the beginning of her article, Golshiri mentions Hommerich’s article and the story of Amin Gol Maryami as one of her motives for researching the issue of child soldiers of the MEK.

Ghazal Golshiri’s report states that Le Monde magazine’s questions from the MEK remained unanswered. At the same time, Afshin Alavi, a person who holds the title of “Press Spokesman of the People’s Mujahedin Organization”, immediately after the publication of the report, in a letter he wrote to the heads of Le Monde publication, accused Golshiri of selecting the interviewees who are known for their relations with the Iranian government!

Who are the interviewees of Le Monde?

Among the dozens of interviewees who spoke out in the Le Monde report about the violation of the rights of child soldiers of the MEK, only the names of three people have been revealed, and the rest of eyewitnesses whose testimonies are mentioned in the report stayed anonymous probably out of fear. They did not want their names to be disclosed. The three young men who have been very active in revealing the cult-like nature of the MEK in recent years are: Amin Gol Maryami, Mohammad Reza Torabi and Amir Vafa Yaghmai.

Amin Golmaryami

Amin Gol Maryami now lives in Cologne, Germany. After the MEK was transferred to Albania, he left the group and took refuge in Germany. Previously, he had spent his childhood in this city in the team houses of the MEK along with other children of Mujahed parents, until he was 13 years old when the organization smuggled him to Iraq to recruit him in its army.
Amin is a successful citizen today; he is married and has a child. He lives in his beautiful house on the outskirts of the city. His father was killed in the MEK operations, his mother is in the MEK’s camp in the village of Manz in Albania. After the publication of his life story in Germany’s De Zeit magazine, he was accused of collaborating with the Iranian government in an article attributed to his mother, published by the MEK websites.

Mohammad Reza Torabi

Mohammad Reza Torabi also lives in Cologne, Germany. After leaving the MEK Organization, he was in Albania for some time and then he moved to Germany. Once he was settled in Germany, Mohammad Reza got married and had a child. His revelations about the MEK have received many positive feedbacks on social networks. His articles about his bitter experiences in the Cult of Rajavi are reposted many times by users.
Only after he left the organization did he find out that his father had been killed under the torture of the MEK commanders. His mother, Zahra Seraj, is still a captive of the MEK, and she has also accused Mohammad Reza of being a mercenary for the Islamic Republic in the contents attributed to her.
Mohammad Reza Torabi has always emphasized his opposition to the Iranian government in his posts. He even avoids communicating with his uncles in Iran. They are members of Nejat Society- an Iranian non-governmental organization consisting of former members and the families of current members of the MEK.

Amir Vafa Yaghmai

Amir Vafa Yaghmai is the son of Ismail Vafa Yaghmai, a former member of the MEK. Amir lives in Sweden and has wife and two children. Yaghmai is the first child soldier who started to speak out 6 years ago and for the first time he spoke in detail about the violation of the rights of children in the MEK, on Mihan TV. Later, in support of Amin Gol Maryami, he launched a campaign of former child soldiers, and now he is actively talking about the suffering of the children of the MEK on his social media accounts. Along with Atefeh Sabdani, Parvin Hosseinnia and Hanif Bali, he is one of the four young people who were the subjects of Sara Moin in the documentary Children of Camp Ashraf.
Although Amir Yaghmai and his father clearly express their opposition to the Iranian government, Afshin Alavi refers to an article on the Nejat Society’s website to prove Amir Yaghmai’s connection with the Iranian government, which is an interview with Amir’s uncle, Abul Qasem Yaghmai, who he was worried about the fate of his brother and his nephew who were members of the MEK at the time, trying to express his voice to them through Nejat Society.

The ripple effect moves on

Interestingly, the Le Monde report emphasized that despite the accusations that the MEK has brought against these three former child soldiers and even despite the benefits that may be there for the Iranian government due to revelations of the child soldiers about the crimes of the group leaders, these three young men are determined to continue to reveal the truth about their experience in the MEK.
Sharing the link of the Le Monde report on his X account, Amin Gol Maryami wrote: “Why should we be silent? Why should we hide ourselves, while they are introducing us as agents of the Iranian regime? We have the right to tell the stories of our lives.”
The army of child soldiers who are open to speech reaches tens of people, according to Golshiri. The audience of the free media has become familiar with the names a few of them. Considering that the number of the trafficked children of the MEK was over a thousand, this army has the capacity to mount to several hundred people. About 500 of these children are still under the control of the organization and their names are used when writing letters against the former child soldiers who criticize the group.

By Mazda Parsi

June 11, 2024 0 comments

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The MEK: Child Soldiers and the Swallow Project

Everyone knows that during the Persian Gulf War, nearly a thousand children of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) members were sent to European and North American countries. Many of these children, including me, were illegally trafficked to these countries. The history and fate of these needs to be widely discussed, but today I want to talk about the fate of about a hundred of them who were sent to Iraq as child soldiers in the late 1990s and early 2000s and became members of the Liberation Army, that is, the military wing of the MEK. The project was named “Swallow” by Rajavi.

Since Maryam Rajavi was sent to France in 1995 to become the political figure of the MEK in the Western world, the project was launched. The MEK bases in European countries, especially France, became a place for these children to gather together in order to attract them by creating a warm and intimate atmosphere, which replaced their missed families. Exactly the same thing happened. The MEK cadres in these bases, whom we called “uncle” and “aunt”, were so kind and loving to us and told us about the good things of the MEK, and about Camp Ashraf that we felt that our “family” and “home” was there. Many of these children, who lived in boarding houses under the control of the MEK and were still brainwashed by the MEK, never felt a sense of belonging to their place of residence and society and saw Camp Ashraf in Iraq as their utopia where our parents and all uncles and aunts are gathered and everything is good and beautiful. A flawless and problem-free world in which we would spend our childhood.

In 1997, the first group of these teenagers were sent to Iraq. Some of these people were 13 years old when they were sent. A little later, a promotional video cassette was prepared from this initial group, which served as a propaganda tool for MEK abroad. In this tape, we saw our friends wearing military uniforms at Camp Ashraf, undergoing military training, riding tanks, having a communal dinner, and exercising, and they were having a great time. Some of them were also interviewed and they told us about their good qualities. In this way, a wave of sending teenagers to Camp Ashraf started. Teenagers who were in Europe were first sent to France, to the main headquarters of the group in Auver Sur d’Oise, and then they were sent to Iraq. Most of these teenagers were under 13 years old.

North America was a little different. The MEK did not have a headquarters there. Therefore, there was no place for teenagers to gather at first. But in 1998, the MEK turned the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance in Washington DC into their main base for deployment. Teenagers like me were dragged there under various pretexts, such as going to Iraq to visit your parents. This way, they resumed the brainwashing process. I must mention here that our brainwashing started from our childhood, when we were in Iraq and in the school and kindergarten of Camp Ashraf, before the Persian Gulf War. The war with Khomeini, and being a mujahid and warrior, and the gun and sacrifice of life, were in our heads, and it was enough to activate those feelings and thoughts again. And the Mujaheds were very skilled in this job and still are.

Between the years 1997 and 2002, about 100 teenagers, mostly under the age of 18, were sent to Camp Ashraf from Europe and North America. There, we entered basic military training from the very beginning. Training in light rifles, Kalashnikovs, BKC, RPG rocket launchers, infantry combat training and then gradually training in armor, tanks and personnel carriers, artillery and air defense, communications, etc. Camp Ashraf was really in war situation. I remember that about two weeks after I entered Camp Ashraf, the Iranian government fired several Scud B missiles into the camp. At that time, Camp Ashraf was a very large military base (36 square kilometers) full of tanks, cannons, military vehicles and ammunition. All members wore khaki and green military uniforms.

In this way, Rajavi successfully carried out the Swallow Project and was able to add nearly 100 teenagers to his old and worn-out organization in order to revive it and give new motivation to his inner forces. In the next part, I will mention the legal aspects of this issue and also the German court ruling against MEK.
Mohammad Reza Torabi, former child soldier of the MEK

X social network – Mohammad Reza Torabi account – Translated by Nejat society

June 8, 2024 0 comments

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Swedish SVT broadcasts Children of Camp Ashraf on the anniv. of Maryam Rajavi’s arrest

The documentary film “Children of Camp Ashraf” will be broadcast on Swedish TV channel SVT. Amir Yaghmai, a former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), announced this news on X social network. The documentary will be shown in Swedish with English subtitles on Monday, June 17, at 10 pm local time. “Branen Fran Camp Ashraf” is the Swedish title of the film.

The documentary Children of Camp Ashraf directed by Sara Moin is about the lives of four Swedish citizens who were the children of the MEK. Under the order of Masoud Rajavi, they were smuggled to Sweden where they were handed over to the families of the MEK sympathizers, and suffered serious traumas.

Amir Yaghmai is one of these four people who was later smuggled to Iraq as a child soldier and joined the army of the MEK. Atefeh Sebdani, Hanif Bali and Parvin Hosseinnia are three other children of Mujahed parents who are now in their forties, successful Swedish citizens who narrate the traumas of life under the control of MEK in Sara Moin’s documentary.
On May 30th, Amir Yaghmai, who always raises awareness about the truth of the MEK and his personal experiences from childhood to youth in the group on social networks, wrote about the broadcast of the documentary in his account on X:

Hi Friends
Good news!
Just wanted to let you know that the documentary “Children of Camp Ashraf” will be broadcast on SVT1 on Monday 17th June at 22:00 (after the main evening news) but will be available on SVT Play from Sunday 16th June.

It is worth to mention that the broadcast date of the documentary coincides with the anniversary of the arrest of Maryam Rajavi by the French police in 2003. The arrest of Maryam Rajavi, under the order of French Judiciary on charges of terrorism and money laundering, led to the initiation of a series of self-immolations by members of the MEK in protest against her arrest.

These self-immolations were carried out under the instructions of the leaders of the MEK cult. Among the people who set themselves on fire were two child soldiers: Neda Hassani and Hamid Orafa. Neda Hassani died due to the sever injuries and Hamid Orafa was disabled for the rest of his life. Have the filmmakers deliberately chosen the date for the first release of the film to the general public after screening in festivals?

June 1, 2024 0 comments

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Former MEK child soldier recounts the bitter story of his aunt

Maryam Banoo Torabi is a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which is known mostly through her brothers. She is the younger sister of Ghorban Ali Torabi and Nade Ali Torabi. Ghorban Ali was a dissident member of the People’s Mujahideen who was killed under the torture of the commanders of the organization, and Nade Ali is a member of the Nejat Society who has been appealing the blood of his brother and the release of his sisters from the bars of the Cult of Rajavi. But today, Maryam Banoo’s heart-breaking story is narrated through her nephew, Mohammad Reza Torabi.

Mohammad Reza Torabi, the son of Gurban Ali Torabi, the former child soldier of the MEK learned about the death of his father under the torture by his Mujahed comrades only after he left the group in 2017 and stepped into the free world. His life story has been recently welcomed by his audience on social networks.

In a thread of detailed tweets, Mohammad Reza Torabi tries to write an honest account of his personal experience with the MEK including his childhood, his father and mother during their involvement in the MEK cult. He writes about the killing of his father during the interrogation, imprisonment and torture within Rajavi’s cult in the years 1994 and 1995 in the headquarters of the group, in Iraq.

In the meantime, he made another revelation in response to a user’s question whether his aunts are still in the group’s headquarters in Albania:
Yes, unfortunately they still are. The story of one of my aunts is very heart-breaking. In fact, my younger aunt. During the interrogations of the MEK in Ashraf in 1995, she was also tortured a lot. And especially after hearing the news of my father’s death, she suffered from mental illness and trauma. During the time when I was in the MEK, my older aunt was always careful not to tell me anything about my father. She was not even allowed to talk to me about my father, that is, her elder brother. Curse the Mujahedin! My aunt was very kind and loving. She loved me much more than Zahra.”
Stating “Zahra”, Mohammad Reza Torabi means his mother. Zahra Seraj is his mother, who called him a traitor because of his revelations about the MEK’s violent and cult-like nature. Masoumeh Torabi is the older aunt of Mohammad Reza, who, along with Zahra Seraj, has repeated the lies of the MEK about the death of his father during all the years of Mohammad Reza’s presence in the group.

Mohammad Reza’s words about his younger aunt, Maryam Banoo, were previously said by another former member of the MEK. Maryam Sanjabi, one of the activists of Nejat Society, who herself experienced torture and interrogations in 1994 and 1995 in the MEK’s prison, writes about Maryam Banoo:
“During the months that I was in the MEK’s prisons located in Camp Ashraf, I continuously heard the screams of the tortured and imprisoned men and women, and I witnessed the double torture of Maryam Torabi. This lady was imprisoned in a solitary room for months. At night, she moaned, screamed and screamed until the morning because of the terrible pressure they put on her.”

Sanjabi continues her comments about Torabi family: “The evil leaders of the Cult of Rajavi have managed to force Masoumeh Torabi and Zahra Seraj to remain silent. But because of the violent acts that they committed against this oppressed lady (Maryam), She was psychologically damaged and became psychotic in the same year. Humiliation, insults and abuses of the cult officials against Maryam banoo Torabi did not end even after the end of the projects. She was constantly under control in the cult and was unable to do anything due to his physical disability caused by torture, but they forced her to do activities.”

Although Mohammad Reza Torabi has no connection with Nejat Society and probably with Maryam Sanjabi, the common point of these two people’s testimonies about Maryam Banoo Torabi is the suffering of an innocent woman who lost all her youth, prosperity, fertility and vitality in the clutches of the fences of the destructive cult of Masoud and Maryam Rajavi. There are many such testimonies that confirm each other from different aspects.

The story of Maryam Banoo Torabi is just one of thousands of unpleasant stories of people who were in some way connected with the MEK cult. With the help of media and social networks, these testimonies are multiplying and confirming each other. Awareness about the nature of the MEK is increasing day by day, and the testimonies and evidence are getting richer over time in order to be able to be presented in international forums.

By Mazda Parsi

May 26, 2024 0 comments

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Children Recruited and Exploited by the MEK

A large number of children are being trafficked by terrorist and violent extremist groups around the world. The International bodies may believe that this is a new phenomenon but the truth is that the Mujahedin_e Khalq (MEK) began using children in its conflicts at least four decades ago. Amir Yaghmai is one of those children. He reveals how he and about three hundred of MEK’s children were brainwashed and recruited by MEK commanders.

Amir Yaghmai, who was under the military training of the MEK at Camp Ashraf in Iraq from the age of 14 to 20, shares a photo of the MEK’s headquarters in Auver sur d’Oise in the suburbs of Paris. In the photo, a group of teenagers can be seen who were separated from their mujahid parents in Camp Ashraf a few years ago and were smuggled to Europe. Amir writes in the caption of this post on his X account:
“A photo of “Auver”, the main base of Mujahideen in the suburbs of Paris in 1998. The underage children in this photo were all sent to Iraq and Camp Ashraf. They were brought from Germany during the school holidays to be brainwashed and recruited by the Mujahideen. I’m in the middle with a red shirt.”

The exploiting of children in armed conflicts is forbidden by international law. According to international law “child” is defined as “every human being below the age of eighteen years.”

Today, terrorist organizations like DAESH and Boko Haram recruit and train child soldiers who could be exploited as couriers, spies, fighters and even suicide bombers. Political, economic problems and insecurity give safe havens for these groups for setting up their training camps, especially in border regions.

The MEK is the leading extremist group that recruited child soldiers as early as the 1990s. At the time it was located in Iraq near Iranian border and tried to smuggle the children of Mujahed parents from western countries back to Iraq. Around one thousand children had been earlier smuggled to Europe from Iraq in 1990, after the first Gulf War.

Massoud Rajavi, the leaders of the group had ordered their parents to divorce. The separation of children from their parents was the next step and the last step was to recruit those children as soldiers of the MEK’s army.

The children were given to MEK sympathizer families in Europe or North America or they were kept in team houses of the group in European cities. The group officials in the west were charged with manipulating these children preparing them for the day they will get back to Iraq to were military uniforms.

Sharing another photo Amir Yaghmai introduces Fereshteh Yeganeh, a high-ranking member of the MEK as the official who was in charge
“Fereshte Yaganeh, the person in the first row on the left, was responsible for brainwashing the youth in the organization’s office in Paris by showing the Mojahedin’s army films and making the children emotional, as well as long talks to convince them. When I asked for separation in Iraq, this same person threatened to send me and my mother to prison in Iran.”

United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) has published a Report on Children and Counter-Terrorism. The report examines the position of children in international law as perpetrators and victims of terrorism. It also explores radicalisation, de-radicalisation and counter-radicalisation by analysing counter-terrorism laws and practices of two case study countries. Finally, the report provides a number of generally applicable recommendations that will allow governments to strengthen their capacity to integrate international child rights standards into domestic counter-terrorism frameworks.

Fereshteh Yeganeh

Children of the MEK are adults who might be still taken as hostages in the group’s camp in Albania, or they might have been killed in the group’s violent conflicts. The lucky ones might have managed to release themselves from the physical and mental bars of the MEK. There has been no de-radicalisation system to help the last category get back to the society. They just did it by themselves.

Amir Yaghmai, Atefeh Sebdani, Ray Torabi, Amin Golmaryami, Parwin Hossiennia, Zhina Hosseinnezhad and many other former child soldiers of the MEK are European citizens who have endured a traumatized childhood. They have been courageous enough to share their heart-breaking stories but their stories must be heard and must be considered as evidence to stop the MEK leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, from captivating those hundreds of victims inside Manez camp in Albania.

May 13, 2024 0 comments

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Atefeh Sebdani: May Day, Child Labor in the MEK

A picture that reveals many details… read on.

What is May Day for you?

For me, pure pain. That meant jobs, child labor. When everyone else was free, cozying up and enjoying the warm rays of spring, we were up early accompanied by orders and tasks until it was evening again. And if the sun came out, which it usually did on May 1st, we came home exhausted with burnt noses.

The picture is not from the first of May but another demonstration, in Oslo if I remember correctly. A demonstration I describe in my book as one of the worst of the thousands we had during our childhood. That little boy of 10 or so years finally started crying from the double-digit freezing temperatures that bit into our marrow and we no longer felt our body parts.
In the picture you also see the drum orchestra I am talking about. I’m the one with the fake fur on the hood. No, it wasn’t easy, even incredibly painful to drum with frozen fingers. Inside, I was crying from the pain but was not allowed to show it outwardly. Those who passed by didn’t get to see how tormented we really were.

Of everyone I can identify in the picture, all but three have dropped out. Two of those who remain were my friends who today take every opportunity to assassinate me.
This was one of the first times our drum orchestra played and made a noticeable (audible) impression. If you look closely you will also notice the Mujahedin symbol of the military/resistance/cult on the drums. Do you understand these details that no one questioned that we children openly displayed? My little brother Mosa, who is on the left in the picture, has a “sign necklace” with a photo of a martyr on it. That was no oddity.

So there we were, on every single day off or skipping school quite often and pretending to be sick. Week after week. Year after year. In minus thirty to plus thirty. Rain, storm, scorching sun, freezing cold. The weather never mattered. Not even if a man like me suffers from chronic pain that the adults knew was made worse by the cold.
May Day was one of the most important working days for the children of the Mujahedin.

Today, however, I will have a party for my boy. My activism should inspire him, but never impose on him. He is not free labor. He is a child who should be allowed to be a child before the rest of his life is about everything else.
What is May 1st for you?

Atefeh Sebdani’s Facebook

May 1, 2024 0 comments

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RTSH Interview with Nejat Society Albania’s media manager

The Albanian Radio and Television (RTSH) interviewed Aldo Sulollari. The morning show hosted by Angelo Shkreli, received the journalist Aldo Sulollari to talk about his latest projects.

The interview went on with a lot of humor but also spicy moments about the media and social projects that the journalist Aldo Sulollari has recently promoted to the Albanian public.

In some parts, it has been talked about the lifestyle of the famous journalist in the United States of America, but also a return to do media projects in the national media in Albania.
A very interesting point of this interview was Aldo’s professional anniversary, which this year marks 10 years of being part of the Albanian media, explaining that his professional life is constantly divided between the Albanian media and the focus on American platforms.

When asked by the host about his social engagements, he explained that when social activities are centered on an individual, this initiative becomes very significant for the life of this person, but also for the community to whom these social activities are transmitted, but when these activities come from outside the country, they become more solid and important, but also very interesting for the Albanian public.

Aldo explains that he has been part of a social project of Nejat Society Albania for more than 2 years now. Aldo Sulollari explains about the project:
“We are creating everything from scratch, based on every normative legal provision. Nejat in Albania, which is known in Albanian as the “rescue” Society, as the name itself is directly twinned with the founding society located in Iran, which was created by mothers whose children are in the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization known as the MEK camp.

We were in another association with another logo, but the interest was to show in the most direct way that now is the time to save those Iranians locked in that camp and to show that life is beautiful and must be lived. In Iran, we are in the year 1403, while we are in 2024 here, and it is a pity to discuss that there are still such false democracies, where the family according to the MEK is the enemy and you should not communicate with it.

In the MEK organization, all human rights are violated, and moreover, they came to Albania with a humanitarian shelter status, where according to the law, by the Albanian institutions, that camp must be monitored to understand that there are many legal violations and the people are not living free.

There are many mothers who mourn every day for the fate of their children, who have joined a camp, to go to a European country for material benefits, promising that they will have a life with democratic principles, but they’ve been stuck there for years.”

Journalists asked Sulollari for more details about the projects of Nejat Society and how it operates in Albania for its members who have left the mujahedin-e Khalq:

Aldo Sulollari answered:
“I met them by chance, as you invited me to the show tonight, I went as a journalist 2 years ago for an interview, and since that day, they have become part of my professional and personal life. A boy named Mehdi, who spoke my language very well, made me understand that these people have come here to integrate, to get a job, create their families and live life from scratch. As before, and now we are creating activities grand and modest, all kinds of activities, we try to give our best, with a team of Iranians and a team of Albanians, united together, with the support of Albanian institutions, we are giving our best every day to integrate this community in our country, but also to bring the voice of parents in Iran, for whom they suffer every day the fate of not being able to contact with their children who are in Camp Ashraf3.

If you allow me, I want to say hello to a member of the Nejat association, who was previously a nurse, doctor, dentist, and when he came to our society, he even became a writer, writing his life story, leaving his mark through literature. Khalil Ansarian, an artist at heart, who loves life, work, and even his Albanian partner. He has told every detail of his life in the MEK organization, in his book.

Inspired by this, now the Nejat Society has made it possible for the Albanian public through 3 other Albanian writers, to bring to the Albanian readers 3 new publications which are different from each other, but with a single mission to leave a witness generation for this history that has been marked in the lives of these members and to make possible and transmit the voice of mothers in Iran.”

Furthermore, during the interview, there were many jokes, where the host of the program was sneezing, and Aldo asked him if he was allergic to the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization.
In this interview and Aldo’s statements, there was also the expectation for the near future to create a media program in the Albanian media this time, to be closer to the Albanian public.

The interview was closed with a great message for Albanian citizens and also for Albanian institutions.

April 13, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The day my brother became a Mujahed martyr!

Exactly 13 years ago I started the day with terrible news.

In recent years I have begun to wonder what my friend who delivered the news was really thinking? How she felt when she decided to call me in the morning to “send her condolences” without first finding out if I was even aware of my loss.

Of course, she was (and is) a member of the cult. A cult that lives on sensationalism and propaganda of martyrs.

My older brother had become a” martyr” just hours before. In the hands of the sect. The witnesses I spoke to afterwards, without knowing what I suspected and experienced from a distance, confirmed it exactly as I thought. That my brother was ordered to run toward the shotguns to die. Who else films an unprotected, unarmed and terrified person his last seconds before getting brutally killed and puts it on YouTube?

In the promotion of the People’s Mujahedin sect, anything is done to get the attention of the outside world. ANYTHING.

13 years ago I had already taken a distance to mujahedin but, like most others even to this day, I had chosen silence. Chosen to just withdraw quietly and live my life in peace.
Today, I know that that friend who called me didn’t give a damn about my brother’s death or about me. She only cared about being the first to call so that she could post on Facebook with her back free, blaming my brothers murder on the Iranian regime and boasting about the Mujahedin as the answer to freedom and justice.
Without any thought about what shock she left me to deal with after we hung up.

Atefeh Sebdani

April 9, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Modern slavery in Europe on the verge of the second quarter of the 21st century

Currently, nearly 2000 members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) have been settled in an isolated and remote camp near Manëz or Manzë city in Durrës province for about 7 years. They consider themselves to be the alternative of the Islamic Republic of Iran and want to overthrow the current Iranian regime by resorting to violence and bloodshed. By its own admission, this group is responsible for the lives of about 12,000 individuals in Iran.
The MEK actively participated in the Iran-Iraq war under Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq for many years, of course on the side of Iraq and against its own country, and also participated in many crimes against the people of Iraq, especially the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the governments of Iraq one after the other wanted the exit of this organization, which they considered a threat to national security, until finally based on the agreement made with the then government of Sali Berisha (the leader of the right-wing Democratic Party of Albania). This organization was transferred to Albania with all its members as a humanitarian measure and settled in an isolated and remote camp near the city of Manëz in Durrës province.
What was narrated above is related to the recent and distant past and is not the subject of this article. Our current issue is a completely human rights matter. In addition to everything that has been said, the MEK violates the most basic human rights of its members on a daily and systematic basis. This is our issue today. It can be boldly said that there is no outside control over the internal anti-human relations of this camp in Albania, and practically modern slavery has been exposed in Europe on the threshold of the second quarter of the 21st century, and the Albanian government either does not want or cannot take action, to stop this process.

Mrs. Ela Deda, a criminologist and the legal director of the Nejat Society of Albania, in her speech at the women’s conference of the Nejat Society of Albania on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Friday, March 8, 2024, at Villa Nejat Hall in Tirana, stated:

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (official name: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international instrument for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. This convention was prepared in 1950 by the Council of Europe. It is mentioned in this convention that:

Article 2 – Right to life (Article 2 protects the right to life of every person).

Article 3 – Prohibition of Torture (Article 3 prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and there are no exceptions or limitations to this right.)

Article 5 – Right to liberty and security (Article 5 stipulates that everyone has the right to liberty and personal security.)

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life (Article 8 stipulates the right to respect private and family life.)

Article 10 – Freedom of expression (Article 10 protects freedom of expression limited only by “lawful” restrictions that are “necessary in a democratic society.” This right also includes freedom of thought.)

Article 12 – The right to marry (Article 12 states the right to marry and form a family for adult women and men [1]).
Meanwhile, the Republic of Albania wants to enter the European Union and is trying to align itself with the European legal and judicial standards. It is worth mentioning that this convention is approved by the Council of Europe and the Republic of Albania, as a member of the Council of Europe, is one of the signatories of this convention [2].
Now we will discuss some provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and its examples in the Manëz camp in Albania:

Article 2 – Right to life

The MEK in Albania does not pay the least attention to the health of its members in terms of medical and health care, and the deaths that are constantly reported indicate this lack of care. It does not mean that treatment facilities are not available, but the MEK has deprived people of free access to these facilities. Many reports have been received that there is a lot of delay in bringing people to doctors and hospitals in Durrës or Tirana due to the fear of dissatisfied people running away. MEK members cannot easily leave the camp and go to medical centers in Albania.

Article 3 – Prohibition of torture

Former members of the MEK have reported systematic acts of psychological and physical repression in the inquisition meetings, as well as insults, humiliation, slander, and even physical encounters for forced coercion in the Manëz camp in Albania. The psychological destruction of the members has sometimes led them to the border of insanity, and currently there are many mental cases inside the camp that are kept in complete isolation. Inhumane and humiliating treatment is a common practice in the MEK in Albania to destroy people’s psychological defense so that they can take away the ability to say “no” from them so that they always give a positive answer to any illegitimate request.

Article 5 – Right to liberty and security

No member of the MEK in Albania feels safe and is always afraid of being targeted for repression and punishment, without reason. In the MEK, there are no written rules and regulations that can be cited, on which a person can be accused and punished, but the discernment of the leaders at any time is considered as law and regulation. It has been officially announced that the wishes of the organization’s leadership at any time are considered the law of that time.

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life

No one in the Manëz camp of the MEK in Albania has any privacy whatsoever. The MEK has invalidated and prohibited any kind of privacy based on its cultic doctrine. Based on the brainwashing that takes place, people are even obliged to report their night’s sleep and pay for it. Free thinking is rejected under the title of mental wandering or intellectual liberalism.

Article 10 – Freedom of expression

People in the Manëz camp do not have the right to disagree or even question the performance of the organization and its leadership. The MEK in Albania has a cultic pyramid structure with the leader at the top of the pyramid. Criticism is allowed only from top to bottom, and towards oneself in front of the official. No question is answered by logical discussion but psychological repression is done to silence the person. All methods of forced coercion are constantly used.

Article 12 – The right to marry

The right to fall in love, get married, form a family, and have children in the camp of the MEK in Albania does not exist at all. Forced celibacy, which is an anti-human imposition, is applied within the relations of the MEK in Albania. In the Manëz camp, gender segregation is implemented in the most severe possible way. There are no families or children in this camp. The family is called a nest of corruption. The main enemy of everyone is considered to be his family.
All of the above and many more clearly prove that destructive cultic mind control methods are practiced inside the remote and isolated Manëz camp. According to the laws and regulations in European countries, brainwashing and mind control and the impositions carried out in this camp are crimes, but the Albanian police and judicial system have closed their eyes on these cases for years.

Right now, in the most blatant way possible, the rights enshrined in the European Convention, drafted, ratified and enforced in the mid-20th century, are being violated on Albanian soil by a destructive mind control cult, and it is the responsibility of the Albanian government to put an end to this situation. And put an end to cultic relations in Manëz camp in Durrës province, which is nothing but modern slavery.

All human rights organizations should demand that the gates of this mysterious camp with medieval connections be opened to the media, government officials and human rights investigators to find out what is going on inside this terrible fortress. Many former members inside and outside Albania are ready to testify at any place and at any time to provide details of this blatant violation of the most basic human rights of the members.

The fact that the MEK has been able to force people to voluntarily give up their human rights, by using mind control methods over time in its cultic base, does not fundamentally change anything, and the responsibility lies with the human rights institutions. Humanity does not accept this, because in practice what is really happening is that still the most basic human rights are violated, and this situation must be terminated immediately. If a person does not demand his rights due to mind control and brainwashing methods in an isolated environment and even volunteers for brutal mental and physical torture, should the torturer be allowed for doing it?

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1- The European Convention on Human Rights, (official: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms), is an international treaty for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe, which was drafted in 1950 by the New Foundation prepared by the Council of Europe, and entered into force on September 3, 1953.
European Convention on Human Rights
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_FAS
This convention has 59 articles and 16 additional protocols, in each clause of which there are many examples from within the organization, which are enough to condemn the MEK for violating basic human rights.

2- The Council of Europe (It is different from the European Union and should not be mistaken) has 46 members from European countries, including Albania. Albania is one of the countries that has signed the European Convention on Human Rights and is committed to its implementation.

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