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We are former members of MKO who are appealing to you and your colleagues to use your influence and contacts to allow members of MKO in camp Ashraf the opportunity to see their families.

Some politicians and lawmakers have chosen to stand with the MKO and have spoken on their behalf in different occasions (like removing them from the terrorist list, falsely presenting them as a “third alternative”, and so on).

We are asking that you make an appeal on behalf of people who are left without a voice in their plight.

As you know there are more than 3000 members of MKO stationed in Iraq on an isolated location called Camp Ashraf (or Ashraf City as is also known). Here they have been imprisoned since 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

As relations between the governments of Iran and Iraq got better, some attempts were made by families of MKO members in camp Ashraf to arrange for a visit with their sons & daughters. These attempts were made primarily by the parents or siblings of the members in camp Ashraf. The very first attempts started as early as 2003, some months after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Family members had to travel on very harsh and dangerous roads to reach Camp Ashraf which at that point was under the control of the United States Army.

Today however the MKO have made it impossible and downright dangerous for family members to get anywhere near Camp Ashraf. Parents and siblings who haven’t met their loved ones in years or decades are turned away at the gates under threats and abuse. The Mojahedin accuse them of being “spies” for the Iranian regime, even though all they want to do is meet their sons and daughters after years of separation.

This matter goes beyond politics and is just a basic matter of human rights. We ask respectfully that you make any effort possible to convince the leaders of the MKO to do the right thing in this matter and allow the families to visit their loved ones in camp Ashraf.

Please voice your concern on this matter to the MKO and demand that they allow the families of their own members to reconnect with their parents and siblings.

Here are some articles and videos highlighting this issue:

Children of ‘the resistance’ – Canadian National Post article from 2006

Parents of MKO members in Camp Ashraf - Baghdad 2003 - YouTube Video / Parents getting denied to enter Camp Ashraf and accused of being agents of the Iranian Regime

With regards

Karim Haggi

Iran Peyvand Association

Petition asking for the indictment of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, lifetime, self- appointed heads of the horrifying Mojahedin Khalq Organization.

Link to original petition site

We, the undersigned, demand the indictment and trial of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi lifetime, self-appointed heads of the horrifying Mojahedin Khalq Organization by a Court of Justice according to international law and in the presence of journalists and representatives of international human rights organizations. The evidence and documents testifying to the engagement of these two terrorists in war crimes and crimes against humanity are undeniable.

We the undersigned demand that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi and their representatives attend such a court to answer the overwhelming evidence and documents, videos and tapes as well as the surviving witnesses testifying to their role during the last quarter of a century under the protection of Saddam Hussein’s toppled dictatorship and his secret services which have been given under the following headings:

1- the role of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi as the leaders of Mojahedin Khalq Organization in the suppression of the uprising of the people of Iraq in 1991 in the north and the south of Iraq especially their direct involvement as the commanders of Mojahedin paramilitary forces armed to the teeth by Saddam Hussein in the massacre of women and children of villages in the Kurdish areas of the north and the Shiites in the south of Iraq by their direct order and in return for payment by Saddam Hussein’s fallen regime.

2- The role of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in the commanding, planning, organization and execution of blind terrorist operations inside Iran during the last 25 years especially the deliberate massacre of unsuspecting civilian citizens and the destruction of houses as well as public buildings using arms such as mortar launchers or bombs used in crowded public places.

3- The role of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in publicly praising and endorsing every kind of violent criminal act with whatever justification in Iraq and Iran.

4- The role of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in insistence on the continuation of terror and the blind killing of innocent people as a way to achieve power even after the disaster of September 11 and the international consequences of that horrifying event and in a time that no Iranian opposition group inside or outside Iran would accept such an inhuman means to achieve political goals.

5- The role of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in the imprisonment, mental and physical torture and the deliberate killing of disaffected members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (the cult of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi) for which evidence would be the testimonies and documents indicating their direct involvement in systematic imprisonment and torture of long serving members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization in the hands of the secret services of Saddam Hussein’s regime in various places such as Abu Ghraib prison.

6- The role of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in the use of psychological manipulation and mind control tactics (used by cults) in brainwashing resulting in self-immolation of some members under the direct influence of the cult and with their direct order and direct pressure so that the members would commit such self-immolation in the streets of European capitals which resulted in two deaths and the permanent disability of some others.

7- The role of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in the leadership, planning, organization and execution of sets of action in order to restrict the physical and mental freedom of the people confined in Ashraf camp (where the remaining cult members have been disarmed and kept by the American forces) and the continuation of the abuse of their most fundamental human rights which have been emphasized in the 4th Geneva Convention.

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