Tag Archives: human rights council
2017/10/03
ISNA, October 03 2017:... I was a 17 year-old girl when I lost my right leg from up the knee in a bomb explosion by Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in Tehran Bazaar. My mother who was with me was injured and is now disabled. At that age, while I had only one leg, I did my best to keep myself and my…
2017/09/21
Amirfarshad Ebrahimi, Global Institute for Democracy & Strategic Studies, September 21 2017:... The People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MKO, MEK) is one of the Iranian political-military groups formed, in the mid-1960s, with the purpose of armed struggles against the Pahlavi regime. At that time, the organization was a political, radical Islamist group with a military structure. Continuing its ... BBC: Who are the Iranian dissident…
2017/09/18
Massoud Khodabandeh, Huffpost, September 18 2017:... While it is by no means clear that Donald Trump actually wants war with Iran – given the huge risks involved for the whole region – his strategy of brandishing the threat to destroy the JCPOA is certainly an attention-grabbing negotiating tactic. So too is brandishing the MEK as a terrorist threat against Iran. It…
2017/09/09
Iran Interlink, September 08 2017:... A glance at the statistics in Albania reveal that although Rajavi has travelled there to save the MEK, the rate of disaffection is accelerating. There are just over one persons per week now leaving the group. The MEK, openly backed by the CIA, is pushing desperately for the Albanian Interior Ministry to give the go ahead…
2017/09/04
Sahar Family Foundation, Tirana, Albania, September 04 2017:... Accepting the risk of not being able to return to Paris, Maryam Rajavi made her second trip to Albania to sort out the catastrophic situation of the group and ease the internal tensions and persuade people to move to the remote base. Everyone who is even slightly familiar with the situation of the…
2017/08/31
Nejat Society, Tehran, August 31 2017:... With reference to the abusive nature of the Rajavi cult, as evidenced by many former members, and the fact that the members are subject to psychological manipulation, we urge you to respect our basic humanitarian rights and let us visit our loved ones. We also urge you to let our loved ones, held captive…
2017/08/28
Habilian Association, August 28 2017:... Ebrahim Khodabandeh, a former senior member of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization who defected from the group in 2003, provided details of some less known aspects of the MEK in a speech delivered to scholars of Astan Qods Razavi endowment in Mashhad. In the first part of his speech, Ebrahim Khodabandeh referred to the cultish nature of MEK…
2017/08/27
Sahar Family Foundation, Tirana, Albania, August 27 2017:... An official in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tirana meeting with Sahar Family Foundation spoke about the situation of the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) and the former members of the group. He said that currently there are around 240 separated MEK members living outside the organization in…
2017/08/17
Houman Fakhimi, Facebook page, August 17 2017:...The Iraq War Resolution of 2002 was not only based on Saddam's alleged possession of WMDs. The Resolution also claimed Saddam had links to terrorism and both Congress and President Bush named People's Mujaheddin Of Iran (MEK) then based in Iraq as proof that Saddam was harboring terror groups (see photos1-2). 15 years later thousand…
Warning about threats against the families and former MEK members (aka Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult)
2017/08/14
Sahar Family Foundation, Albania, August 14 2017:... Unfortunately, we are also witness to brutal behavior by the Albanian government and police towards the families. The families come to Albania to visit their loved ones. Where on earth is visiting loved ones considered a crime so that in your country these suffering families have been interrogated by the police and been…
2017/08/13
Mehr News, Tehran, August 13 2017:... Due to the covert and over support of US government and its intelligence and military forces to terrorist groups, and repeated confessions by some American officials ... Iran considers the following individuals subject to punishments included in Article 6 of the bill: ... 4- American individuals who sponsor Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization (MKO), or any other…
2017/07/27
F.W. Burleigh, Western Free Press, July 27 2017:... A 2009 RAND study, commissioned to help the military understand what it had inherited, painted an unflattering, deeply disturbing picture of life in the camp: “(Rajavi transformed) the MEK from an activist dissident group into an inward-looking cult. Rajavi instituted what he termed an “ideological revolution” in 1985, which, over time, imbued the…