The Members of the Terrorist Group of the MEK are Life Prisoners of this Cult

The terrorist group of the Mujahedin-e Khalq known as MEK, which was on the list of terrorist organizations from 1997 to 2012 and has a black record of assassinating 17 thousand people, is now being introduced as a purely political and human rights group by anti-Iran satellite channels such as Iran International. The cult has created complex equations and horrible relationships inside and outside. The violence applied by this group towards its members is an important issue that may not have been addressed much. The issue of torture and secret prisons is only raised by members who have spent time in the camps of MEK. From another point of view, one of the fixed practices of this cult is the justifications MEK leaders express for certain matters, especially internal purification and killing disaffected members. Martyrification and presentation of the killed members as martyrs by the group over many years was such that the most people knew that it is the internal affairs of the group that lead people to the valleys of destruction.

The imprisonments and tortures that the leaders of the MEK group had used against the disaffected members included long-term imprisonment (without communication with the outside world), solitary confinements, beatings, psychological and verbal abuses, forced confessions, threats of execution and tortures that in so many cases have led the members to death. The statements of the isolated members indicate that the MEK used three types of prisons inside their camps, the first type is small residential units known as Mehmansara (guesthouses). Those who wanted to escape from the organization were kept in these units, they were not allowed to leave their units to talk or meet anyone inside the camp. Karim Haqi, a high-ranking member of the terrorist group, who was responsible for the security of Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the cult, says:

"In 1991, I was the commander of Rajavi's protection, they didn't believe that I wanted to leave, they put me with my wife and my six-month-old baby in a building called Eskan, which was a series of residential units for the time marriages was the norm, and here It was a couple's house, they locked it up. The organization had built a high wall around these units and had installed barbed wire from the inside (that no one can exit the place), and had a guard tower and patrols. During this time, they reduced our food rations, beat and insult us, and threatened us with execution."

Another defected member of this cult admits that after submitting our request to leave the group in 1991, we were locked in several rooms in the camp. "When we entered the organization's camp, they took our passports and identification documents, and later when we said we were going to leave, they did not give them back to us. They imprisoned us in buildings called Eskan and in other prisons."

The second type of imprisonment inside MEK camps was called "Bengalization", which refers to small solitary cells inside prefabricated rooms. Dissatisfied members who wanted to leave the group were imprisoned in Bengals. Imprisonment in Bengal was a kind of punishment for people who had committed a mistake from the point of view of the cult leadership. These people should think of their mistakes and wrote reports criticizing themselves during their imprisonment. Masoud Bani Sadr, who was in charge of the group's diplomatic representation in Europe and North America, writes that after a meeting with Massoud Rajavi and other senior members, they came to the conclusion that he is corrupt and should become a Bengali:

“After that, my supervisor asked me to go to a Bengali and think, I became a Bengali, which means I have to go to a solitary cell and just think and write, this is a severe form of mental torture, so that some members of the organization prefer to kill themselves to become Bengalis. "

The third type of detention reported by former members includes imprisonment, physical torture, and interrogation in secret prisons in group camps. These prisons are mainly used to persecute political dissidents. Most of the members of the cult did not know about the existence of these prisons, the people who were imprisoned in these detention centers state that they were unaware of their existence until their personal experience of these prisons.

One of the witnesses named Mohammad Hossein Sobhani says: He spent eight and a half years, from September 1992 to January 2001, in solitary cells in the camps of the MEK. Another witness, Javaheri Yar, was in solitary confinement in the organization's prisons for five years from November 1995 to December 2000. Both of these people were senior members of the MEK who wanted to leave the group, but they were told that they would not be allowed to leave due to the large amount of information they have. They were imprisoned and finally handed over to the Iraqi authorities and transferred to Abu Ghraib prison.

A member of Rajavi's cult, who managed to escape from the dreaded Camp Ashraf, stated: Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the leaders of the group have changed their strategy, and Camp Ashraf has become a prison where its residents have no possibility to communicate with outside of the camp. According to him, from that time until now, the leaders of the MEK have been training the members of this group to carry out terrorist attacks by spending millions of dollars. According to the revealing statements of three members who escaped from camp Ashraf, the leaders of the MEK persecuted and tortured the members of this group and did not allow them to leave this camp and join their families.

According to them, many members of the MEK want to escape from this group, but they are afraid and are not sure about their future. In the continuation of their confessions, these people revealed that dozens of members of the MEK were killed by the order of their leaders, the only fault of these people was trying to escape from the camp.

According to another one of these witnesses, the leaders of the MEK use every way to brainwash and oppress the residents of Ashraf, like group meetings where each member was required to explain about his or her sexual thoughts and the other members were required to insult and ridicule that member. Also, these people stated that those who are in the Ashraf camp are not allowed to contact outside the camp in any way, and if they try to escape, they will be shot by the guards or arrested and executed.

All these cases were only a small part of the crimes of the terrorist group of the MEK, who, with obvious violations of human rights, keep their members in Ashraf camps like prisoners, and none of the human rights organizations make the slightest effort to save these people. In this regard, the "Nejat" association, which was formed from the families of the members imprisoned in the camp Ashraf or better to say, the prison of the MEK (Rajavi terrorist cult) in Albania, organized a rally in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tehran on the 8th of May and demanded the follow-up of the unknown status of the people caught in the clutches of the MEK by this humanitarian organization.

The purpose of this rally, which was held at the same time as the World Red Cross Day, was to draw the attention of international organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the violation of the most obvious human rights of the members trapped in the camp of the MEK in Albania and to take immediate action to save these people. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated every year on May 8. This day was chosen because of the birthday of Henry Dunant, one of the promoters and founders of the Red Cross. Henry Dunant is considered the first winner of the World Peace Prize.

At the end of this rally, a statement was signed by the present crowd, which here is a part of it: "As stated in the mission of the Red Cross to prevent and relieve suffering, support life and health, and guarantee the respect of human beings, especially in emergency situations.  We expect that the trapped members will achieve a simple refugee life with a humanitarian diplomacy by the Red Cross and be saved from sectarian life and difficult mental and physical conditions and tragedies such as individual and collective murder and suicide will be prevented". In this statement, which was delivered to the representative of the Red Cross in Iran, it is also emphasized: "The MEK, by creating a prison camp without communication with the outside world, prevent the presence and communication of families and even all international institutions, including the Red Cross, with the members freely, and relying on which logic of human rights, the parents of a person are deprived of contact and visit with their children even once, and their efforts have remained unfulfilled for several decades to the extent that they hide their faces in the mask of dust in the desire for this visit."