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Nejat Newsletter
Issue No 26 31 December 2008
Inside this issue:
Happy New Year! 1 Happy New Year!
Nejat Society in 1
London The Dawn of a new year
is floating in the air,
Modern Slavery in 2
the cult of Rajavi

German Greens say

no to MKO
2
and the spirit of the winter
An Interview with
MKO former mem-
3 is all around here!
bers
Lord Malloch- 3
Brown:
4
So, may the new year of 2009 bring you
Iran - MKO are No
Freedom Fighters happiness and health, success and satis-
Iraq Threatens to 5 factions in all you do!
Expel Rebels

Iranian opposition 6
exiles must leave

Is PMOI a democ- 6 All our Best Wishes for You!

ratic organization?

Maryam Garrison: 7
Nejat Society in London
Nejat: Let ailing 8
MKO members out December 15 2008 Khalq members in sites.
Camp Ashraf in
Nejat delegation 9 A delegation from Nejat’ s main de-
Iraq through their
met Shadow Minis- Nejat Society mand includes open-
ter for Sport meetings with hu-
travelled to Lon- ing the gates of Ash-
man rights organi-
Nejat Society Asks 10 don in December, raf garrison to fami-
UK to Support zations and western
2008. lies and let those
Iraqi Government policy makers and
captured free.
Meeting with Bar- 11 During their visit to media.
oness Neville-Jones London, (including Read more of the
The news of Nejat
former members news of the trip and
UN denies sending 12 delegation’s trip to
letter in support of and families) dele- the mission of Nejat
London was covered
MKO gates of Nejat NGO Society to London
by various News
Cult survivors visit 12 will pursue the case on pages 8 to 11 of
agencies and web-
Iraqi embassy of Mujahedin-e- this newsletter.
I S S U E NO 2 6
Modern Slavery in the cult of Rajavi
December 29 2008
With the growth of globalization
and immigration, it has become
clear that modern forms of slavery
are growing in the world. The defi-
nition of slavery, according to Jo-
seph Rowntree Foundation in-
cludes three principal elements of
the exploitive relationship:
- Sever economic exploitation
- Lack of human rights framework
- Control of one person over an-
other by the prospect or reality of
violence.
There are more than 27 million
slaves in the world more than the
number of people extracted from
Africa throughout the 400 years of
the slave trade.
The very important factor that
makes a difference between poor
working condition and slavery is
that the enslaved person has no
real alternative but to submit to
the abusive relationship.
The withdrawal of passports or ID
documents, deceit and abuse of
power, the use of physical and
psychological pressure are the
functions of all abusive slavery
German Greens say no to MKO
Sat, 29 Nov 2008
Press TV
Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the out-
lawed Mujahedin Khalq Organization
(MKO), or People's Mujahedin Organi-
zation, recently met with members of
the German Parliament in a bid to rally
support for the removal of the group
from the European Union's list of ter-
rorist organizations.
"The Iranian exile organization of the
People's Mojahedin Organization
which acts under the cover of the Na-
tional Council of Resistance of Iran is
not a suitable partner in dialogue for a
responsible policy towards Iran," a
spokesperson for the Green Party,
Claudia Roth said late Thursday.
Roth told reporters that the group's
position on the EU terror list should be
carefully evaluated, as the Rajavi or-
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
structures. The crucial point is that
anyone who do protest against
such conditions may be beaten,
abused, raped, deported, tortured
or even killed. These attacks can
result in serious physical and psy-
chological trauma.
All the above-mentioned criteria of
modern slavery are perfectly func-
tioned by Mujahedin Khalq terror-
ist cult. Unfortunately slavery is a
problem people think we solved
long ago but in fact, it’s still alive.
It has simply taken a new form.
People in Auvers-sur-Oise in a Pa-
risian suburb are living next door
to slaves without knowing it. The
MKO members in Camp Maryam,
France and Camp Ashraf, Iraq, are
suffering the same poor conditions
of the enslaved captives. These
victims who are kept in a strange
land can grow dependent on their
captors, if only to survive. The
leaders of MKO cult use a range of
crimes-fraud, coercion, physical
and psychological violence to hold
their victims captive. They confis-
cate passports and during Saddam
Hussein’s leadership threatened to
turn their captives over to the
ganization has a 'past of terror' and as-
sisted the 'crimes' of the deposed dicta-
tor, Saddam Hussein, in Iraq.
The Green Party, which holds 51 out
of 614 seats in the Bundestag, said it
clearly dissociates itself from consider-
ing the Mujahedin Khalq Organization
as a legitimate 'democratic Iranian op-
position'.
The MKO which has been listed as a
terrorist organization in Iran, the Euro-
pean Union and the United States, has a
long and bloody history of targeting
Iranian civilians and government offi-
cials.
Incidents linked to the group include
the June 1981 bombing of the offices of
the Islamic Republic Party in which 72
high-ranking Iranian officials including
judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mohmmad
Beheshti, and tens of Majlis deputies
were killed.
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Iraqi authorities if they refused to
obey. Even if victims can escape,
they often fear leaving because
they are not able to deal with local
difficulties. But since the American
invasion to Iraq in 2003 and the
disarmament of MKO by the US
army, the victims found an oppor-
tunity to leave the cult. More than
600 have left Camp Ashraf so far.
The 3300 members remaining in
Ashraf and others who are residing
in Auvers-sur-Oise are still victims
of serious human rights violations.
A broad-based awareness cam-
paign should be launched to im-
prove the supervision of Human
Rights Organizations to strengthen
protections for the modern slaves
captured by the cult of Rajavi. Our
former comrades who are victims
of modern slavery need urgent
help. We can make a tangible con-
tribution to change their condition.
The international community
should get involved in liberating all
slaves around the world especially
those who are suffering the poor
condition of living in cult of per-
sonality under the rule of the dic-
tatorship of the Rajavis.
The following August the group assas-
sinated President Mohmmad Ali Ra-
jae'i, Prime Minister Javad Bahonar
and National Police Chief Ali Dast-
gerdi at the Prime Ministry building.
The MKO also assisted Iraqi dictator,
Saddam Hussein, in the massacre of
thousands of innocent Iraqis and is re-
sponsible for several acts of terror in
Iran including the 1994 bombing of a
revered Shia shrine in Mashhad, east-
ern Iran.
In 2003, French anti-terrorist police
arrested 165 members in Paris, includ-
ing Maryam Rajavi, for 'associating
with wrongdoers in relation with a ter-
rorist undertaking.'
More recently, around 10 members of
the notorious organization were ar-
rested in France and Switzerland on
charges of money laundering on Sep-
tember 29, 2008.
I S S U E NO 2 6
An Interview with MKO former members
Governmental Radio of Italy
Rai GRR
October 21 2008
The Italian Radio (RAI-GRR), in
the program ’’ Voices of the
world’’, published a report on the
MKO, sent by its reporter in Iran,
Bruno Rufolo .the main axis of the
report are as the followings:
-the organization struggles to
overthrow the Islamic Republic
and has been in the FTO list of EU
and US for years.
- The reporter interviewed a for-
mer member of the group who left
the group and was granted am-
nesty by the Iranian Regime and is
now working for Nejat Association
that cares about the affairs of the
defectors of MKO and tries to help
them be received by the society
once more. The visit was made in
the office of Nejat Association. He
says:” I don’t want the others to
repeat my mistakes.” He compares
the totalitarian nature of the or-
ganization to that of a cult, ex-
plaining that in 1995, he was re-
cruited by the group in Vienne
where he had gone for education.
Lord Malloch-Brown:
Camp Ashraf handover to Iraqi government imminent
Iran-Interlink report from
the House of Lords,
December 26, 2008
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
He had been in Iraq until 2001 and
after several terrorist operations,
he was arrested in Iran and was
imprisoned for 5 years, then he
declared his regret and was re-
leased.
- The report reads that:” an Ira-
nian intelligence expert revealed
that the organization is able to
launch terrorist attacks in Europe.
It seems that MKO has an influ-
ence in Brussel organizations
something that makes Tehran be
on the alert. The 27 members of
European Union are still opposed
to the removal of the group from
terror list and the Supreme Court
issued a ruling on the freezing of
the MKO’s assets. The she-guru of
the organization Maryam Rajavi
went to Brussels a few months ago
and her supporters in Washington
are not a few. The group might
have revealed the Iranian nuclear
program in the past.
- The reporter continued by asking
a question on the nowadays role of
the organization, to answer the
question, a terrorism expert Guidio
Olimpio says:” in the past, the or-
ganization was involved in violent
activities in terrorist forms but
A government spokesman in
the House of Lords confirmed
that the Americans will hand
control of the Mojahedin-e
Khalq’s military base in Iraq,
Camp Ashraf, Iraqi authorities
before the end of the year.
Lord Malloch-Brown, minister
of state for the foreign office,
was responding to a question
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they have mainly dedicated their
activities to the opposition since a
few years ago and they are now
definitly more active, although
they don’t have the previous sup-
porters.”
- the reporter mentions that the
organization fought against the
regime of Shah in the 1970’s but
after the revolution they were de-
feated by ayatollah Khomeini’s
partisans, so they sought refugee
in Iraq and were used as merce-
naries by Saddam Hussein to
launch terrorist operations inside
Iran. After the occupation of Iraq,
the 4000 member of the group
went under the protection of
American forces. They have no
support among Iranian people.
According to former members, the
leaders of MKO force the members
to absolute abeyance.
Mrs. Singleton, a defector of MEK,
in an interview on BBC said:”
when I was in the organization, I
thought that I am superior to nor-
mal people. The group’s leaders
prevented us from having any con-
tact with our family. We were
completely separated from outside
world.”
about the situation of people in
the camp following signing of
the status of forces agreement
between the US and Iraq.
The Bulgarian unit which was
also involved in protecting the
foreign terrorist base will leave
the country by December 20
according to Sofia’s leading
news agency.
I S S U E NO 2 6
Iran - PMOI Members are No Freedom Fighters
Tobias Pflüger, Member
Iran Delegation, Coordina-
tor Security and Defence
Sub-Committee (GUE/NGL)
http://tobiaspflueger.twoday.n
et/STORIES/5065181/
Letter to the Members of
European Parliament con-
cerning the People's Muja-
hideen of Iran (PMOI),
Brüssel, 15.7.08
Dear colleagues,
The United Kingdom recently
decided to remove the People's
Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI)*
from the list of banned terrorist
groups following a court ruling.
We warn against the misunder-
standing that the court's order
to remove the PMOI from the
terrorist list accords the PMOI
democratic legitimacy and cre-
dentials as political opposition
to the ruling Iranian regime.
Moreover, their claim to be the
only legitimate opposition
rather proves their own totali-
tarian approach.
The PMOI is an organisation
which according to information
from many different sources
has degenerated over time
from a political movement
combining Marxist and Islamic
elements into a psycho-sect
with a history of heavy brain-
washing and repression of its
members. The Rajavi couple
rules the organisation in a to-
talitarian style combined with
an elaborate personality cult.
According to Human Rights
Watch and a number of ex-
members - some of which tes-
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
tified in a meeting of the Iran
delegation last year -, dissident
members "were tortured,
beaten and held in solitary
confinement for years at mili-
tary camps in Iraq after they
criticized the group’s policies
and undemocratic practices, or
indicated that they planned to
leave the organization." Some
were even sent to Abu Ghraib
in order to be tortured by Sad-
dam Hussein's security forces.
According to Human Rights
Watch, even deaths have been
reported. Married couples were
forced to divorce, children were
separated from their parents
against their will in order to be
sent off into orphanages or fos-
ter families in Europe and the
US.
The PMOI members are no
'freedom fighters'. It is not the
democratic, pluralistic, egali-
tarian, reform-oriented organi-
sation, as which it presents it-
self. Within today's Iran, it
does not play any role as a se-
rious opposition force. For the
Iranian public, the Mudjahe-
deen have discredited them-
selves completely due to their
internal organisation but also
due to their collaboration with
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Saddam Hussein in the war
against Iran. The lack of de-
mocracy, the grave violations
of human rights and the au-
thoritarian elements of the pre-
sent Iranian state are not in
doubt and we do not need this
group for confirmation.
We urge all members of the
European Parliament who are
engaged for a more democratic
Iran to be extremely circum-
spect and cautious vis-à-vis
this group.
Sincerely Yours
Michael Gahler, Vice-Chair For-
eign Affairs Committee (PPE)
Christa Prets, Vice-Chair Iran
Delegation (PSE)
Annemie Neyts, Coordinator
Foreign Affairs Committee,
President of the European
Party of Liberals and Democ-
rats (ALDE)
Angelika Beer, President of the
Iran Delegation (Greens/EFA)
Tobias Pflüger, Member Iran
Delegation, Coordinator Secu-
rit y an d Def en ce Su b-
Committee (GUE/NGL)
• The Iranian abbreviation
Mujahideen-y-Khalq (MKO)
is equally used.
• PMOI /MKO still remain on
the EU and US terrorist
lists, while the National
Council of Resistance
(NCR), basically a cover up
organisation for the PMOI,
is only on the US terrorist
list and not on the Euro-
pean one.
I S S U E NO 2 6
Iraq Threatens to Expel Iranian Rebels
Iraq Threatens to Expel Ira-
nian Rebels;
Exile Group Has Protected
Status Under Soon-to-Expire
U.N. Mandate
Washington Post,
Ernesto Londono,
December 22, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Iraqi officials say they intend to
expel members of an Iranian exile
group living in a camp north of
Baghdad that is protected by the
U.S. military. The expulsion, which
the Shiite-led government has
long sought, is expected to be-
come feasible once the U.N. man-
date that regulates the presence of
U.S. troops -- and which gave the
Iranian opposition group protected
status -- expires at the end of the
year.
Iraqi national security adviser
Mowaffak al-Rubaie on Saturday
traveled to the camp with several
other government officials to de-
liver the message to members of
the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK,
an Iranian opposition group that
was closely aligned with deposed
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
but has been under U.S. military
protection since shortly after the
2003 U.S.-led invasion.
The government informed the
group that it would soon assume
responsibility for security at Camp
Ashraf and that residents would be
repatriated unless they find a third
country willing to take them. The
U.S. military currently protects
Camp Ashraf, which is 40 miles
north of Baghdad.
"Staying in Iraq is not an option
for them," the government said in
a statement issued Sunday. The
Iranian government has long
called for the group's expulsion.
The statement did not set a dead-
line for removing the MEK. Iraqi
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
officials have pledged to treat the
group's members humanely but
have made their disdain for the
MEK clear. The delegation that
visited the camp included officials
of the Defense and Interior minis-
tries as well as Iraqi intelligence
officials.
The statement also said the group
is barred from participating in po-
litical activities and ordered it to
cease media campaigns.
The Shiite-led Iraqi government,
which has close ties to Iran, has
for years threatened to shut down
Camp Ashraf because it regards
the MEK, also known as the Peo-
ple's Mujaheddin Organization of
Iran, as a terrorist organization.
The European Union and the U.S.
State Department have also la-
beled the group a terrorist organi-
zation.
The MEK, which has about 3,500
members in Iraq, has strongly re-
sisted the Iraqi government's ex-
pulsion efforts, saying members
could be executed if they are
forced to return to Iran. The group
has aggressively lobbied U.S. and
European lawmakers and has re-
lentlessly sought sympathetic cov-
erage in the Western news media.
The MEK was founded in the 1960s
as an opponent of the late shah of
Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It
was accused of carrying out sev-
eral attacks in Iran, including
some targeting U.S. officials.
The MEK moved its headquarters
to Iraq during the 1980s, when
Iraq and Iran were at war. Former
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein em-
braced the group, providing them
weapons and financial support.
Kurds and Shiites have long re-
viled the MEK because they say
the group helped suppress the
failed Kurdish and Shiite uprisings
that followed the Persian Gulf War.
Shortly after the 2003 invasion,
the U.S. military persuaded the
MEK to disarm and offered to pro-
tect the group. The arrangement
was awkward because it tasked
the U.S. military with sheltering a
group that remains on the State
Department's terrorism list.
The group's charismatic leader,
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Maryam Rajavi, is based in Paris,
but France and many other coun-
tries have been reluctant to reset-
tle the group's members.
Also Sunday, Iraq's Interior Minis-
try issued a statement calling the
recent detention of ministry offi-
cials by a special unit that reports
directly to Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki "a brazen act of political ret-
ribution."
Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani
had dismissed reports that the
roughly two dozen detained offi-
cials were plotting to reconstitute
Saddam Hussein's Baath Party,
possibly to stage a coup. The
statement makes clear Bolani was
deeply unsettled by the deten-
tions. Bolani, an independent,
secular Shiite, has not previously
criticized the Maliki government in
such stark terms. With provincial
elections a few weeks away, com-
petition among Shiite parties has
intensified. Bolani recently created
his own party, and the statement
appears to indicate he believes
that the prime minister ordered
the raid to undermine him.
Under Bolani's stewardship, the
ministry has fired or criminally
charged tens of thousands of em-
ployees accused of corruption. The
raid occurred last week while
Bolani was out of the country. He
said any concerns about misdeeds
by ministry officials should be
brought to his attention and not
handled "Saddam-like under cover
of the night under dubious threats
of an imminent coup."
"The Minister was outraged that
anyone would interfere in the ad-
ministration of the Ministry he is
sworn to lead," the statement
said. "He alone is responsible for
this Ministry and he is accountable
only to the Iraqi people."
The statement, signed by Rafae
Munahe, an adviser to Bolani, was
e-mailed to reporters late Sunday
by a representative of Brown Lloyd
James, a public relations firm.
Special correspondent Qais
Mizher contributed to this re-
port.
I S S U E NO 2 6
Iraq says Iranian opposition exiles must leave
Reuters News,
By Michael Christie
December 21, 2008
BAGHDAD,
Dec 21 (Reuters)
The Shi'ite-led Iraqi government
told nearly 3,500 opposition Irani-
ans living in exile in Iraq on Sun-
day that it planned to close their
camp and they had to leave the
country.
A delegation headed by National
Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-
Rubaie told the Iranians, who have
lived for two decades at Camp
Ashraf north of Baghdad, that the
government was taking over re-
sponsibility for their security from
U.S. troops.
They told the Iranians the govern-
ment "...is keen to execute its
plans to close the camp and send
its inhabitants to their countries or
other countries in a non-forcible
manner, and that staying in Iraq is
Is PMOI a democratic organization?
November 19 2008
The self-assigned president of the
so-called National Council Resis-
tance (which is the political arm
and the elegant admirable cover for
MEK) without war and with a pen
in hand wearing beautiful clothes,
recently replied the Italian Newspa-
per, Metro, the question on the solu-
tion to Iran problem as :
“Support the change inside Iran and
by the Iranians, we believe that this
is the only way to achieve democ-
racy, free opinion and respecting
the rights of minorities. We are a
democratic organi zati on."
(According to MEK’s website)
As it is referred to Iranians, they
always selected what they wanted
and they will absolutely make a
change whenever it is needed.
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
not an option for them," the gov-
ernment said in a statement.
The Iranians, who include mem-
bers of the exiled opposition Peo-
ple's Mujahideen Organization of
Iran (PMOI), have lived in the
sprawling township 70 km (40
miles) north of Baghdad for
around 20 years.
The Iraqi government, which is
friendly toward Shi'ite Iran, re-
gards the Iranians as terrorists.
The PMOI is also listed as a terror-
ist group in the United States and
in Europe.
U.S. forces have protected the ex-
iles since the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq in 2003 after persuading the
Iranian group, also known as the
Mujahideen e-Khalq, to disarm.
The U.S. military seized and de-
stroyed more than 2,000 tanks,
armoured personnel carriers and
other weaponry at the time. The
group had been protected by Sad-
dam Hussein, who welcomed them
as fellow enemies of the Iranian
ayatollahs.
The PMOI began as a leftist-
Islamist opposition to the late
shah of Iran but fell out with
Shi'ite clerics who took power after
As it is referred to minorities, we
have witnessed in MEK how the
few number of other religions were
forced to change their ideology the
example is Mr. Edvard Termado
(who is a defector of MEK, he is
Christian who was forced by the
group to convert to Islam
But about Maryam Rajavi’s word:”
we are a democratic organization.”
There is a question since we have
been in MEK and served there we
can understand what you mean by
Democratic!?
The forced signatures you took from
us or the forced meetings we had to
attend every week to insult and
beat each other. You mean the peo-
ple who waist their lives in the pris-
ons of Ashraf where under heavy
physical and mental torture the
opponents die. Or those who were
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the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Its leaders fear many of them will
be executed if they are forced to
go back to Iran. Tehran has long
demanded they be expelled from
Iraq.
The United Nations has had trou-
ble finding other countries to ac-
cept the Iranian exiles as refugees
because of their militant back-
ground but has urged Iraq to re-
spect their rights.
In the statement released on Sun-
day, the Iraqi government said
people in the camp had been told
that carrying out activities whether
legal or illegal "against any
neighbouring country, is a danger-
ous issue."
Iraq will treat those in the camp
"in accordance with Iraqi law, Is-
lamic values and international or-
der," the statement said.
Amnesty International has urged
Iraq and the United States to re-
gard members of the rebel group
as "protected persons" under the
Fourth Geneva Convention. The
1949 pact bans the extradition or
forced repatriation of people who
could face torture or persecution.
(Editing by Tim Pearce)
assassinated by the terror squads
and then you claimed that they died
due to illness!
Your Democracy is also obvious in
the testimonies of hundreds of de-
fectors in various international com-
munities where they denounce the
way you forced mothers to leave
their children or spouses to divorce,
the way you destroyed the family
relations. The pure democracy is
shown in the ideological leaders’
order for the hysterectomy surgery
on women of Ashraf! You might in-
terpret democracy as the forbidden
phone contacts between members
and their families. We would be so
pleased to realize your documented,
clear description for this sen-
tence:”we are a democratic organi-
zation”
 I S S U E NO 2 6
Maryam Garrison: Center for MKO’s crimes
December 10 2008
By: Nejat Bloggers
In 1981, the terrorist cult of Mujahe-
din-e-Khalq officially started its armed
struggle against the regime of Iran in
order to achieve power. The cult of
MKO which had cooperated with the
Islamic regime in the post revolution-
ary phases of the formation of the re-
gime finally broke down with the Is-
lamic Republic and ended with an
armed clash between the both sides.
Masud Rajavi, MKO’s guru, who
claimed to be the first power, failed in
all his tricks to gain political power in
Iran, so in 1981 he declared his armed
struggle against the Islamic regime.
Then he fled Iran and settled in France
together with his high ranking cult
members. In France they resided in
Auvers-Sur-Oise the small country side
in the Province of Cergie Pontoise,
where the cult leaders used as their
headquarters to control their terrorist
operations and also launch their politi-
cal campaign and propaganda in the
west.
However, some years later, Masud
Rajavi was forced to leave France and
inhabit in Iraq but Auvers-Sur-Oise has
always had an active part in MEK’s
terror acts.
During their three decades of terrorist
activities, after the Islamic Revolution,
the MKO has had two main bases:
1. Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province,
Iraq.
2. Camp Maryam in Auvers-Sur-Oise,
France.
Although, after the Masud Rajavi’s
settlement in Iraq under Saddam Hus-
sein’s support, Camp Ashraf was MKO
headquarters to lead its terror activi-
ties, Camp Maryam in Auvers-Sur-Oise
has also played an vital role for years.
After the fall of Saddam’s dictatorship
and the disappearance of Masud Rajavi
and the flee of Maryam Rajavi to
France, Camp Maryam could find its
central role once more.
Despite MKO’s designation as a terror-
ist organization by the EU, the French
government has tolerated the exis-
tence of Mujahedin terrorist in French
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
territory under the pretext of freedom
and human rights.
But now, the human rights activists
and freedom advocates are exactly
asking for more control on Camp
Maryam in France to stop human rights
violations in the camp.
According to the testimonies made by
former members of the cult, unfortu-
nately it should be said that the cult
officials’ behavior toward members is
so violent and inhumane.
Since the most high ranking person in
the cult is now Maryam Qajar Azdanlu
(Rajavi), Masud Rajavi’s wife, the di-
rect responsibility of the committed
crimes is on her. It should be noted
that the cult members consider
Maryam Rajavi as the second leader
and Masud Rajavi’s co leader.
Let’s have a look at the condition of
captured ones in Camp Maryam and
view the cases of human rights viola-
tions there:
1. The residents of Camp Maryam, in
France, are completely under the con-
trol of Maryam Azdanlu (Rajavi) and
the high commandants, having no free
will to decide and behave freely. They
are under intensive supervision.
2. They are never allowed to leave the
camp except in group and by the per-
mission of officials of the cult.
3. They have no access to mass media
except MKO’s TV channels.
Note: The political teams of MEK who
work on political affairs are only al-
lowed to have the access to a limited
number of TV, Radio or websites that
have already been assigned by the
leaders.
4. They are never allowed to contact
their families and to get married.
Note: The only married person in the
cult is Maryam Qajar.
5. No man or woman has the right to
discuss the social or political issues
with the other one.
6. The men are not allowed to sit at
the same table where the women have
their meals.
7. The restrooms, bedrooms, bath-
rooms… in camp Maryam is separated
for male and female members and no
one is allowed to enter the places allo-
cated to the opposite sex.
8. Sexual relationships are forbidden in
the cult of Rajavi.
9. The 24 hours of a day are com-
pletely scheduled. There is no free
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time or free will for the individuals so
as they have even no opportunity to
think of anything except the organiza-
tion and its ideology.
10. The mentally captured ones in the
cult of Rajavi suffer mental problems
due to extreme mental pressure and
they need psychological treatments.
11. In Camp Maryam there are some
individuals who have never left the
camp for years, they are actually im-
prisoned.
12. Camp Maryam residents are forced
to attend meetings every night and
give a report on their activities and
declare their loyalty to the cult regula-
tions.
13. The manipulation meetings which
are held daily in Camp Ashraf are usu-
ally accompanied with violence, insult-
ing the members and even sometimes
beating them.
14. Every week, mostly on Friday, the
officials hold weekly meetings where
the member has to confess the mo-
ments of his sexual thoughts…
15. Although the camp is protected by
French police, all the walls are cov-
eredwith the barbed wires.
16. The main commander of the camp
is Maryam Rajavi who enjoys a God-
like personality and nobody has the
right to disagree her. The ruling or-
dered by her are considered as the
God’s rules and must be obeyed.
17. More and more, the camp is ex-
panded because the MKO is transfer-
ring the most reliable Ashraf residents
to France. Maryam Rajavi ordered to
buy the neighboring houses in order to
add them to the camp.
18. Most captured members of the cult
are ready to commit suicide operations
and self-immolations in France or else-
where in Europe.
One should not forget that the horrible
camp Maryam is located in the soil of a
country which the authorities claim it
to be the cradle of democracy and hu-
man rights.
Are the French authorities aware of the
crimes committed in Camp Maryam,
Auvers-Sur-Oise or because of their
political interest have they closed their
eyes to the facts?
All civil, human rights activists and
institutions should warn the French
government of the crimes committed
in camp Maryam in order to prevent a
human catastrophe happening. They
have to close down the camp.
I S S U E NO 2 6 N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R PAGE 8

Nejat: Let ailing MKO members out

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 the country. supporters.'

Press TV Nejat Association members "We urged the European offi-

have recently held meetings cials to open Camp Ashraf
with the European parliament, doors to doctors and human
human rights organizations, rights organizations and rescue
Amnesty International and the trapped members who
British government officials in don't want to be part of this
London to raise awareness terrorist group anymore,"
http://www.presstv.com/Detail about the humanitarian crisis Sameti elaborated.
.aspx?id=78818&sectionid=35 occurring within the MKO. The
leaders of the group, headed "We welcome the Iraqi govern-
1020101
by Maryam Rajavi, are commit- ment's decision to take over
Defectors from the terrorist ting crimes against their own the control of the Ashraf Camp
Mujahedin Khalq Organiza- members. and seek the European coun-
tion allege the United tries' support for the release of
States is thwarting the clo- According to former members its members."
sure of MKO's Camp Ashraf of the MKO, the organization's
After the US-led invasion
in Iraq.
of the country, the US put
Director of the members under pro-
the Iran- tection in north Iraq amid
based Nejat reports that they had
[Rescue] As- been used by Washington
sociation's for espionage and vio-
Foreign Rela- lence-related activities.
tions Depart-
Iraqi government officials
ment, Arash
believe the Mujahedeen
Sameti, said
Khalq Organization is
the United
playing a significant role
States re-
in fueling violence and
fuses to
insecurity in
hand Camp
the country.
Ashraf over
They have
to the Iraqi
banned any
government.
deal with
Most of the members of
MKO mem- the MKO, call-
bers currently in Camp ing on the US
Ashraf are ailing, and to stop sup-
being physically and porting the
mentally abused by terrorist
their terrorist leaders, group.
he added.
Nejat Associa-
The MKO is blacklisted tion was es-
by several countries, tablished in
including the EU, as a 2003 by for-
terrorist organization. mer members
The group has launched of the Mujahe-
terrorist attacks inside din Khalq Or-
Iran and has killed leaders have set up a personal- ganization and
nearly 12,000 citizens across ity cult 'which brainwashes its families of the members who
remain at Camp Ashraf.
I S S U E NO 2 6 N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R PAGE 9

Nejat delegation met Shadow Minister for Sport and for the
Olympics in London
Nejat association, dam Hussein’s suppressive ap- Nejat is asking UK policy and
paratus. TheMKO is officially decision makers along with hu-
December 18 2008 regarded by the Iraqi govern- man rights organisations in the
ment as a foreign terrorist en- UK to support the position of
(Report by Iran Interlink) tity. Although the MKO has the Iraqi government toward
been on the US list of terrorist the MKO.
entities since 1997, the army
has not moved to dismantle The delegation explained that
the military infrastructure of the first steps toward resolving
what the American government the problem posed by Camp
itself describes as a foreign ter- Ashraf include facilitating free
rorist organisation, and its and unfettered reunions be-
training base in Iraq. tween families and their rela-
tives in the camp. A separate
The US army has agreed to camp should immediately be
hand over control of the camp established adjacent to the
to Iraqi authorities by the end camp in which members can
of this year when the Iraqi take refuge if they choose to
military will take over protec- renounce violence and go back
Shadow Minister for Sport, Mr tion of the camp and its detain- to civilian life. Nobody should
Hugh Robertson met with the ees. The Iraqi government is be forced to remain a member
Nejat Society delegation in adamant that the MKO must of a dangerous paramilitary
London to hear about their hu- leave Camp Ashraf but has force against their will.
manitarian solution for Camp
Ashraf in Iraq.
Nejat representatives described
conditions inside Camp Ashraf
in Iraq. The camp is the mili-
tary/ideological training base of
the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO)
cult organisation. The group
has been detained there by the
American army since 2003.
Mr Robertson was sympathetic
to the stories of two women in
the delegation who have not
seen their relatives for many
years because of MKO direc-
tives for members to divorce
from their spouses, children
and families. Mrs Foroushani,
from Isfahan, has a son in
Camp Ashraf and Mrs Iranpour,
from Shiraz, has two brothers
in the camp. Mr Robertson agreed that a
given repeated guarantees
that, in line with international humanitarian approach should
Nejat explained that for the
humanitarian law, no MKO will be followed in resolving the
past five years the Iraqi gov-
be forced back to Iran against problem.
ernment has been demanding
the MKO be removed from their will. Report by Iran Interlink
Iraqi territory as part of Sad-
I S S U E NO 2 6
Nejat Society Asks UK to Support Iraqi Government Plans for
Camp Ashraf Victims
The Hill
December 11, 2008
http://www.prnewswire.com/c
gi-
bin/stories.pl?ACCT=THEHILLP
OL.story&STORY=/www/story/
12-10-
2008/0004940128&EDATE=WE
D+Dec+10+2008,+05:02+PMl
Iran-Interlink reporting
from London
Nejat [Rescue] Society, an Ira-
nian NGO, has sent a delega-
tion to London to brief
policy and decision mak-
ers, human rights or-
ganisations and media
on the US army hand-
over of the Mojahedin-e
Khalq's (MKO, MeK,
NCRI, PMOI) military
base, Camp Ashraf, to
the Iraqi military on
January 1st 2009.
Nejat delegation com-
prises: Mr. Babak Amin,
Mr. Arash Sametipour,
(former MKO-members),
Mrs. Mahnaz Akafian
Foroushani and Mrs. Nar-
jes Khatoon Iranpour (relatives
of Camp Ashraf captives). Their
aim is to prevent further politi-
cal abuse of the Mojahedin-e
Khalq members in Camp Ashraf
held captive by their leaders,
Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
In a meeting yesterday with
Mr. Hugo Swire, MP, Chair of
the Conservative Middle East
Council and Chair of the UAE
All-Party Group, Nejat dele-
gates described the worsening
human rights situation for the
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
remaining captives inside
Camp Ashraf.
Arash Sametipour said, "The
Iraqi government has given
guarantees that none of the
captives will be forced to return
to Iran against their wishes.
The most serious threat to
those left in Camp Ashraf
comes from the MKO cult's
leaders, Massoud and Maryam
Rajavi. They will want to use
their blood to extricate them-
selves from this crisis."
Nejat is asking all UK agencies
to cooperate with the Iraqi au-
thorities to help restore basic
human rights to the people
trapped in Camp Ashraf.
Nejat's demands are that:
1. A separate camp is re-
opened adjacent to Camp Ash-
raf to which people can
escape and not be forced to
continue as terrorists because
there is no alternative.
2. The gates of the camp
should be opened to allow doc-
tors, families and
humanitarian agencies free and
unfettered access to the in-
PAGE 10
mates.
Arash Sametipour said, "Every
individual person in Camp Ash-
raf must be given the opportu-
nity to decide for themselves -
without pressure or interfer-
ence from MKO personnel -
whether to continue wearing
military uniform, or to re-
nounce violence and become
civilians. The Iraqi authorities
should open a separate camp
where people can take refuge."
Nejat Society believes the cap-
tives should be given access to
external information, internet,
radio, television, books, news-
papers and conversation.
Above all, the people in
Camp Ashraf must be
helped to contact their
families and enjoy family
visits as soon as possible.
"Contact with their fami-
lies re-connects the cult
member with their emo-
tions and provides a nor-
mal, trustworthy frame
of reference in which
they can reassess what
the cult is telling them,"
explained Babak Amin.
Mrs. Iranpour told Mr
Swire, "I visited the
camp twice to see my brothers
but the Americans army takes
orders from the cult leaders.
Once the Iraqi government is
in control of Camp Ashraf, I
hope it will be possible to freely
visit our loved ones again."
Nejat Society is in London
for two weeks.
For more information con-
tact: Anne Singleton
+44 (0) 113 278 0503
I S S U E NO 2 6
Meeting with Baroness Neville-Jones
The British government
should support Iraqi
plan for Camp Ashraf
detainees
Nejat Association, London, De-
cember 17, 2008
www.nejatngo.org
(Report by Iran-Interlink)
Nejat Society delegation met in
the House of Lords with Baron-
ess Neville-Jones, Shadow Se-
curity Minister and National
Security Adviser to the Leader
of the Opposition.
Baroness Neville-Jones wel-
comed the group warmly and
spoke of her admiration for
their courage.
The Nejat delegation described
in detail the problems faced by
the captives in Camp Ashraf.
They explained that the MKO
members have been trapped in
the camp by the Rajavis who
demand total obedience. In-
fringements of the draconian
conditions which the Rajavis
have imposed upon all the
members is harshly punished.
As a result there is a high rate
of suicide in the MKO.
The delegation reported that
MKO members who had es-
caped Camp Ashraf by taking
refuge with the American army
in a separate camp adjacent to
N E J AT N E W S L E T T E R
the MKO’s military/ideological
training base, had reached
European countries with dis-
turbing descriptions of the cur-
rent conditions for members.
MKO members have been sub-
jected to strict gender segrega-
tion for many years. A more
disturbing development in the
story of cult manipulation and
exploitation is now being re-
ported by those who more re-
cently left the camp. They say
that around ten percent of the
women have undergone spuri-
ous hysterectomies. This is be-
ing promoted as a value by
Maryam Rajavi – who purports
to support women’s emancipa-
tion – as a way for women to
rid themselves of the desire to
have children.
For this reason, Nejat Society
is asking that doctors and hu-
manitarian agencies as well as
the families of those trapped in
Camp Ashraf be granted free
and unfettered access to indi-
vidual members as soon as
possible in order to ascertain
PAGE 11
their wellbeing.
Baroness Neville-Jones ex-
pressed her sympathy for Nejat
Society’s work toward finding a
humanitarian solution to the
problem posed by Camp Ashraf
to the Iraqi government.
Nejat Society said that the
British government should by
urged to support the Iraqi posi-
tion toward the MKO. The Iraqi
government has said the MKO
will be given three choices.
1.To voluntarily repatriate to
Iran under the auspices of the
International Committee of the
Red Cross and other humani-
tarian agencies. No forced re-
patriations will take place.
2. To remove to another third
country which is willing to ac-
cept them.
3. To stay in Iraq they would
need to leave Camp Ashraf,
take off their military uniforms
and find paid employment and
housing as a regular citizen of
the country.
 PERIODICAL UN denies sending letter in support of MKO
PUBLICATION OF THE
Mojahedin.ws
NEJAT SOCIETY
November 20, 2008
Address During the last two days some western media, and BBC in lead-
P O Box 14395/679 ing, have fabricated news saying the UN General Secretary Ban
Ki-moon has sent a letter to the Iraqi government and expressed
Tehran, Iran concern on condition of Mojahedin Khalq Organization
(MKO,MEK,PMOI) members residing at Camp Ashraf located in
Fax: 88 96 10 31 Diyala Province. The media also declared the UN Secretary Gen-
eral has called for Iraq to save the group from being deported.
Seizing the opportunity, the organization started taking advan-
tage of the publicized fabrications.
At last in reaction to this news, the UN Spokesman Farhan Haq
Nejat Society denied the news that the Secretary General has sent a letter to
the Iraqi government concerning members of the organization.
Reported by IRNA on Wednesday Farhan Haq is quoted saying
info@nejatngo.org “Ban Ki-moon has sent no letter on the MKO to the Iraqi govern-
ment and the news is not true.”
The MKO is at the present a blacklisted terrorist organization on
We’re on the web several countries’ list including the US and the EU. It has also
been recognized as a cult of personality whose main bastion is in
Camp Ashraf in Iraq which was granted to them by the ousted
www.nejatngo.org Iraqi dictator Saddam for their collaboration with the Baath re-
gime in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds and other suppressive tasks.

Cult survivors visit Iraqi embassy in Paris

The following letter to the
Prime Minister of Iraq was
handed over to the Iraqi Am-
bassador in Paris during the
visit:
Pers et Avenir, Paris,
December 28, 2008
Dear Honourable Prime Minis-
ter of Iraq, Mr. Nori Maleki,
With our best greetings to you,
your government and the people
of IRAQ.
We, as a delegation of the sepa-
rated people from PMOI ( PEOPLE
MOJAHEDINS’ ORGANIZATION OF
IRAN ) who submitted a letter on
behalf of thousands innocent peo-
ple in NOTORIOUS ASHRAF GAR-
RISON, which was addressed to
you, to IRAQ -Embassy in PARIS
few months ago , and in this letter
we urged you, as the prime minis-
ter – elect of IRAQ to help the in-
nocent people who have been
stranded and stuck and treated
like captives in RAJAVI’S cult in
notorious ASHRAF GARRISON In
IRAQ for decades to find an oppor-
tunity to separate from the RA-
JAVI’S cult and start over their
new life in free world.
TODAY, fortunately we found out
that an honorable IRAQI delega-
tion with honorable MR. MOVAF-
AGH ALRABIEE, as the head of this
delegation, entered ASHRAF GAR-
RISON in IRAQ and officially de-
clared the shutting down of this
notorious garrison in the near fu-
ture.
We, as the victims of this notori-
ous and nefarious cult, would like
to thank you and your honorable
delegation that carried out such a
humanitarian act which is the most
fundamental and substantial step
to help those who are stranded
and captivated in this cult to
breathe the fresh air of freedom
after decades . We believe shut-
ting down of this notorious garri-
son (ASHRAF) will help our friends
who are captives in it, to rescue
themselves from their captors and
decide for their own life in free
atmosphere without the interven-
tion of the cult’s cruel leaders, op-
eratives and governing council of
this inhumane cult.
We would like to thank you again
for your endeavors to shut down
ASHRAF GARRISON. We hope all
the innocent people who are
stranded in this terrorist cult will
be released from the RAJAVI’s cult
clutch in very near future and start
over their normal life in free and
democratic countries, which have
been deprived of it for decades.
SIGNATORIES
1. MR. NADER NADERI
2. MR. MOHAMMAD RAZAGHI
3. MR. MANSOUR NAZARI
4. MR. MOHAMMAD BAZIYARPOUR
5. MR. HAMID SIAHMANSOURI
6. MR. HASSAN PIRANSAR
7. MR. HAMED SARAFPOUR