MEK member tells UK Parliament of arrest of parents in Iran

Shaqayeq Azimi, a member of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or MEK), describes her torment after hearing last week of the arrest of her parents by the mullahs' regime in Iran. Shaqayeq addressed a meeting of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom on human rights in Iran at the UK House of Commons on October 19, 2015 via the internet:

 Distinguished Members of Parliament, 

The Story of a Woman’s Resistance Who Did Not Succumb to Iran’s Religious Dictatorship

By Assadollah Nabavi

The sound of a woman in pain had me go to the door of my prison cell. Cell number 2 of Semnan Prison in central Iran. It was back in August 1988. 

The summer of 1988 Iran was the scene of horrific massacres carried out under Khomeini’s religious fatwa against all political prisoners across the country. I was looking down the hallway through the small hatch in my cell. The prison guards were busy taking something away with a cart. I looked more carefully.