Families of MKO members

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The letter of Samaneh Noori to his father in the MEK

Hamid Reza Noori has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin-e Khalq

for over 30 years. His family have been looking forward to contact him in all these years. They have sent petitions to the international human rights bodies in order to demand his liberation from the MEK.
They have also published several open letters in the hope that Hamid Reza will read them some day. Being stuck in the cult-like MEK, Hamid Reza has never been allowed by the group leaders to contact his family. This is the latest letter to Hamid Reza written by his daughter Somayeh who is 34 years old.

My Dear father,
I hope you are doing well. I have so far sent you several letters but you have never responded.

My beloved father,
I miss you so much. When ever I miss you, I begin writing a few words to you. I have never felt you as a father. When I was a kid and a primary school student, I would see the fathers of my classmates who dropped them at school. I always envied them wondering where my father is. In your absence, I grew up with so much regret.
I have already told you in my previous letters that I am married and have two children. I show your photo to my kids; they become happy to see you and ask when grandpa will to come over? I have no clear answer to give them. I just tell them to be patient. “Grandpa will come,” I tell them.

Dear father,
I ask you to release yourself from the Mujahedin-e Khalq and get back to your family. We are here waiting for you with open arms.
Your daughter, Samaneh

Samaneh Noori and her father Hamidreza Noori; hostage of the MEK

January 21, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The mother of Ali Hajari’s Congratulations message on the birth of Elisa

My dear Ali,
I received the news of the birth of your beautiful daughter on Friday, January 13th , coincidently Mother’s Day in Iran. This was the best and the most valuable gift that you could give me on this occasion. Elisa is the greatest gift the God offered you and our family.

My beloved son,

I hope you could know how happy and pleased I am, as a mother who languished to hear the voice of his son for years. The son that had gone to war to defend his country and his people but was taken as a war prisoner and then was imprisoned in a new prison called Ashraf of the Mujahedin-e Khalq where he lost best years of his younghood earning no job, no education, no income and no wealth.

Elisa Hajari, Daughter of Ali Hajari

You lost your life under the brainwashing system and the fraudulent propaganda of the Cult of Rajavi where marriage and having baby was forbidden and an impossible wish. You spent those years in the worse and most disastrous conditions until, thanks to God and our prayers, you were released from the cult.
You were again imprisoned this time by the Albanian government two months ago as the result of the plots created by the leaders of the MEK. This unlawful act prevented you from being by the side of your beloved wife while she was going through labor. However, I still believe that the will of God is more powerful than all the devilish plots. I am sure that you and your friends will be free soon. God will bring you back to us.

I am grateful to God that gave me enough life to see your child, my grandchild. Send the congrats of me and all your siblings to your caring and kind wife who protested and complained your detention despite the difficult conditions of pregnancy.
Wishing you freedom and your warm company by the side of your daughter and family. I kiss you.

Your mother Sakineh Avazzadeh (Hajari)

January 16, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mother of Ali Hajari pens letter to the Prime Minister of Albania

Greetings and regards to the Prime Minister of Albania, Mr. Edi Rama.
I, Sakineh Evaz-zadeh, mother of Ali Hajari, on behalf of myself and my family members, am expressing my complaint with you. As you and all of us know, your officials transferred my innocent son to the camp for illegal immigrants and did not allow him to leave or contact us. For more than 32 years, I have not seen my son who was captured in Camp Ashraf in Iraq and is now in Albania. He was trapped in the Rajavi cult for 28 years, and after he was released from the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), your government did not allow us to visit him, and yet I was satisfied that my son could live freely in your country. But apparently your government supports this organization and acts on the wishes of Maryam Rajavi.

The mother of Ali Hajari

Our children were not smuggled and did not illegally enter your country. The government of Albania, in agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), officially accepted these people, and until now they have not had any demands except for a peaceful and safe life from you, the government and the people of Albania. During these years of living in Albania, they have not caused the slightest problem and they can be considered exemplary citizens.

But now that our children have saved themselves from the cultic relations of the MEK by their efforts and will, you have locked them up without any reason and without any charges. I ask you to send your officials to the workplace of my son Ali Hajari and ask all the Albanians who have been in contact with him, whether he has ever shown the smallest abusing and disrespect towards the people and government of Albania. If Ali Hajari’s presence in your country is illegal, then all the members of this organization should be expelled from Albania and their stay is illegal too.

In an interview, you stated that you sheltered members of the MEK as a humanitarian act. How is it that people who no longer wish to live under new slavery conditions in the MEK camp are not included in this humanitarian action. Have they committed a crime other than being in your country? If so, why don’t you try and punish them?
Finally, I request you to determine the status of my son Ali Hajari. If he has committed a crime, try and punish him. If not, how is it that humanitarian actions include the situation of Maryam Rajavi and the people trapped in her camp, but not those who did not want to be captured by her?
I anxiously look forward to hearing from you.

Sakineh Evaz-zadeh, the mother of Ali Hajari, former member of MEK in Albania

December 11, 2022 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Sander Lleshaj Interior Minister must protect former MEK member in Albania

Letter from “Mothers, the Forgotten Victims” to the Minister of Interior of the Albanian Government

Mr. SANDER LLESHAJ, Albanian Minister of Interiors
Greetings and best regards,

Contradictory reports from Albania indicate that somehow the life of Mr. Ehsan Bidi, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), is in danger.

As you know, Maryam Rajavi has been deported from France and also has no right to enter the European Union. Attempts to obtain entry visas to the United States and the United Kingdom have so far been unsuccessful. She blames the former members, who have revealed the truth about the cult, and intends to take revenge on them.

We know that the internal situation of the Rajavi Cult is very bad and a large number of members want to separate, and the officials of the organization are trying to make the situation outside the MEK camp in Albania unsafe so that no one dares to leave.

In the past, Maryam Rajavi had conspired against Mr. Ehsan Bidi many times and tried to silence him, but she did not succeed. She has not given up her efforts against Mr. Bidi and continues her conspiracies, including giving false information to the police. Apparently, Mr. Ehsan Bidi has been transferred to an unknown location by the police.

On behalf of the suffering mothers of MEK members in Albania, I must inform you that in the current situation, we hold the Albanian government and the Albanian State Police responsible for safeguarding the security of Mr. Bidi and other former members of the Rajavi Cult in that country.

Soraya Abdollahi,
Mothers, the forgotten victims

cc:

General Director of Albanian State Police (ASP) Ardi Veliu
European and International organizations and the media

October 20, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families of MEK members pen letter to Mr. Josep Borrell

Dear Josep Borrell
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Respectfully، we _ as families of Mojahedeen Khalq’s members (known as MKO or MEK) from Ardabil Province of Iran_ find it necessary to inform you some matters over that group and members trapped in.
For long years، we’re awaiting and praying for coming back our dears to home، with the hearts full of hope and grief.

As you know، Mko، with the history indicating violence and terrorism، has been resided in Iraq for years. and now، this group has gradually moved to Albania according to multilateral arrangements.
The families was banned from any forms of contacts with own dears on the basis of orders the Mko’s leaders and threathening members during past years. So، any contacts with Mko’s members has became impossible specially after moving to Albania. this caused to concerns and distresses for awaiting families.

Dear Sir
Writers of letter would appreciate if you would meet following demands.
_The members present in Mko camps trapped in a real political Cult with a terrorist background in which members are controlled and ruled by Mko’s leaders using psychologic methods over brainwashing and mind/mental control. thus، members do not have any right to freely determanation for own lives. consequently، those are forced to absolute subbordination while being deprived from any fundamenal rights and liberties of mankind.

Unfortunately، European Eunion (EU) removed the MKO from its 7 list of terrorist organizations in 2009 during an unclear and disputable process!! in spite of being the various evidences and records indicating continual resorting to violence by Mko.

Sadly، Albanian officials recently (as the host state) started unusual and disputable cooperation with Mko’s leaders in particular suppressing members wishing to leave group or members opposed to its activities، while obvious turning in foreign policy positions toward Iran. so far as it leads to severe critics by Albanian non_state/independent organs and even some scholars.

As matters said above، our demand from High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy _given that some considerations over physical and mental situation of members_ is providing circumstanses _to any possible methods_ for visiting or freely making contact between members with families under control EU or UN bodies.

We will appreciate your reply

Best regards,

The list of members involved _trapped_ in mko from Ardabil Province of Iran:
Naser Gholipour
Hossein Samadi
Azim Ershadi
Reza Azizadeh
Salman Dolatpanah
Hasan Basharati
Barat Abdoli
Galil Arasi
Ali Yousefi Sadat
Rahmat Alizadeh
Fereydoon Parvaresh
Saleh Nasiri
Zaman MehdiZadeh
Matlab Nazari
Kiomars Sohbatzadeh
Mahbob Sabahati
Youssef Shabani
Samie Nazeri
Haj Mohammadi
Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh
Hamdaleh Mastaneh
Javed SuleimanJah
Hafez Nosrati
Asad Asadzadeh
Barat Rabiei

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– international Red Cross
-Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy representative
-European Union Representation Office in the Republic of Albania
-Mr. Luigi Soreca Head of EU Delegation to Albania
-Elizabeth Tichie Fiesberger, President of the United Nations Human Rights Council
-Representation of the European Parliament in stabilizing EU-Albania relations

March 3, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Open letter from suffering families to the French ambassador in Iran

Embassy of the Republic of France in the Islamic Republic of Iran
85 avenue Neauphle-le-Chateau – Tehran

Honourable ambassador of France, François Sénémaud,
We learned that in an internal meeting in her headquarters in Paris, Maryam Rajavi announced that the MEK (aka NCR) are planning to hold a large gathering in Paris on February 8, 2019.
This day commemorates the deaths of the commander of the military wing of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as well as Massoud Rajavi’s first wife in an armed clash in Tehran in 1982.
In those days, widespread terrorist activities were carried out inside Iran conducted directly by Massoud Rajavi from Paris.
The French policy of supporting this terrorist cult which, according to its own publicity, is responsible for the deaths of 12000 citizens inside Iran, and which is currently holding its members captive in an isolated remote and closed camp in Albania, is contrary to French claims of human rights advocacy.
When the French government in this way gives an open hand to the Rajavi terrorist cult for propaganda activity and gatherings on its soil, does it ask them why they deny families to visit with their loved ones inside the cult and why they have kept the members isolated and uninformed for so many years?

Your Excellency,
Our request is for an answer which would clarify the relationship of the French government to this terrorist cult and why the MEK have so much liberty inside France, while they do not give one per cent of it to their own members?

With regards,
Families of the members of the MEK in Iran

January 23, 2019 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

MEK (Rajavi cult) victims’ families reject Amnesty International report endorsing gross human rights abuse in Albania

To: Secretary General of Amnesty International Mr. Kumi Naidoo
Amnesty International UK
Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard
London
EC2A 3EA
020 7033 1777
sct@amnesty.org.uk
We write as the families of Mojahedin Khalq members. We do not wish to comment on the events of 1988 that your report covers except to question whether it is customary for a campaigning human rights group to investigate historic events in a 140-page report. What does AI hope to achieve by creating this report?

We find the report seriously flawed and it lacks credibility for the following reasons:
An internet search will show that all western organisations, such as the US State Department and United Nations, and the media refer to the Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation as MEK or MKO. This report refers throughout to the PMOI, which is only ever used by the MEK itself. After reading this report we need to ask who has really written it and what relationship the author has with the MEK/MKO and Maryam Rajavi?
On page 7 of the report it says:
“Amnesty International’s research, conducted from September 2017 to November 2018, analysed the testimonies of 41 survivors, 53 family members of victims, 11 former prisoners, and 10 other witnesses from 28 cities across Iran, obtained either directly or through Justice for Iran, an Iranian human rights organization.”
Shadi Sadr of Justice4Iran is the nominal head of several organisations supported by anti-Iran neoconservatives. She frequently travels to Albania and Paris to liaison with MEK and Maryam Rajavi. She has written pro-MEK articles and takes a pro-MEK stance. She has no credibility whatsoever in the wider Iranian community.
The report claims to have taken testimony from MEK members in Albania. The people in Albania do not have identity documents, work permits or travel documents. They are not registered as refugees in Albania. Even when they were registered by the UNHCR in Iraq many used fake or borrowed passports. So, it would not be possible for AI to accurately and unequivocally identify the individuals they spoke to.
Also, it is true that all MEK members have already learned scripted information about the events of 1988. MEK have indoctrinated the members with their version of reality over the years. They are not reliable witnesses.
There are tens of Iranian families living in Europe and North America who lost their loved ones in the events of 1988. The report is an insult to the other families of the executed people inside and outside Iran who do not support the MEK, who have not sided with Saddam Hussein nor with Saudi/Israeli anti-Iran forces. Why has AI failed to interview even a single one of these people? They are families of MEK victims, but they are not traitors.
On page 1, Amnesty International claims to be “independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations”.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein when it was possible to investigate the conditions of MEK members in Iraq, AI failed to say a single word except to promote MEK as a ‘human rights’ group. In 2005, Human Rights Watch wrote a damning report on the human rights abuses conducted by MEK against their own members. In 2009 the RAND Corporation conducted an in-depth study of MEK and revealed its cultic human rights abuses. This year alone, following some hard-hitting reports by Albanian media about MEK’s dangerous and abusive behaviour in Albania, various western media outlets investigated and wrote about MEK. All identified serious human rights abuses against the members.

As families of the MEK members we are angry and appalled that Shadi Sadr can go to Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, but none of us families are allowed to visit our loved ones there. We have campaigned for two decades for the right to have contact with our loved ones inside the MEK. Even prisoners in high security jails in Iran have this right.

Raha Bahreini of AI and Shadi Sadr of Justice4Iran have made the MEK out to be a peaceful democratic opposition. This is a lie.
MEK members are isolated and held in a state of modern slavery under forced indoctrination. Apparently Amnesty International does not know the meaning of that. Otherwise, why doesn’t AI speak out about the current abuses of the MEK? Why doesn’t AI mention anywhere that MEK kills its own members – Massoud Dalili in Iraq and Malek Sharai in Albania this year for example?
Your report frequently refers to the right of victims and their families to have human rights abuses investigated and reparations made. While the report identifies members of the Mojahedin Khalq as victims in 1988, you have ignored the victims of human rights abuses inside the MEK for over thirty years. The report even fails to mention what happened during Operation Eternal Light in 1988 when Maryam Rajavi and her husband Massoud sent 2000-3000 members – mostly non-combatants – to their deaths in a hopeless military campaign to invade Iran. This was clearly a war crime.
This complete – and we can only assume, deliberate – failure to describe the MEK’s crimes and abuses in the report make it meaningless. Its only use could be for the MEK to whitewash its image and deflect attention from the control and abuse of their members in Albania.
If Amnesty International truly believes in campaigning for every person’s human rights, we families make the following demands:

That AI pressure the Albanian state to ensure that all who want to leave the MEK camp are allowed to do so.
To ensure that the Albanian state issues visas and intervenes inside Albania to allow families to meet their loved ones.
To grant the members and ex-members of MEK identity documents and work permits which will allow them to live independently.

December 19, 2018 0 comments

Albania

Letter to the Head of the UN High Commissioner

Dear Mr. Filippo Grandi,

I am Mohammadvali Gholizadeh. I am the father of Ali. I ask your Excellency to help our dear children who are under the severe mental and physical control of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult.

The Cult’s leaders have denied us to have a visit or even have a short contact with each other now for long years.

After the MKO members relocated to Albania, the UNHCR entitled a monthly payment for each MKO member. However the MKO Cult put our children under pressure and do not give them the money they are entitled to. They put our children under severe pressure and give them a very small amount of that financial support in order that they do not be able to leave the group and repatriate to Iran.

I beg you to consider our plea and compliant. I ask you to facilitate a condition that the financial support be given directly to our children in order not to be used as a pressure tool against them by the MKO cult leaders. Please help our children to be able to decide for their own fate freely.

I ask you to help me as an ailing, aged father who has suffered a lot waiting to see his dear son once more.

Sincerely Yours,

May 28, 2017 0 comments

Iran

Iran Blasts HR Bodies for Attempts to Cleanse MKO Terrorists’ Crime History

Spokesman of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Keivan Khosravi rapped certain human rights organizations for their attempts to erase the history of the terrorist crimes committed by Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI).

"The Islamic Republic of Iran is among the victims of terrorism and most assassinated Iranian citizens and officials have been killed by the Monafeqin (Hypocrites as MKO members are called in Iran) terrorist group but human rights bodies are trying to clean up their black record without paying attention to their crimes," Khosravi said in a meeting with a media delegation from Albania on Tuesday.

He called on the European media to clarify the dangerous approach adopted by the MKO ringleaders against their members to meet their illegitimate interests.

The MKO has been incarcerating, torturing and killing all dissident members as well as those suspected of future plans for defection. The terrorist organization has assassinated many of its defected members in Europe and Canada.

Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani in a letter to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in November called on the European states to annul the legal immunity of MKO members.

"The spread of plights and dangers of terrorism in the European countries as well as its negative consequences, including the refugees crisis which has inflicted the European states too, have more than ever shown the necessity for real serious determination to fight against it," Larijani wrote in his letter.

He stressed that the European states’ double-standards on human rights issues and their support for the MKO terrorist group whose hand is stained with the blood of the Iranian and Iraqi people and even its own members is not acceptable at all.

"Therefore, I ask your excellency and other relevant European officials to consider the numerous crimes committed by Monafeqin terrorist group and adopt serious measures to prevent the free activities of the terrorist group’s members in Europe, try its leaders and criminal members and make them account for their deeds," Larijani concluded.

The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly-established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by the MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in September 2012, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under the US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with the American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty. Hundreds of the MKO terrorists have now been sent to Europe, where their names were taken off the blacklist even two years before the US.

The MKO has assassinated over 12,000 Iranians in the last 4 decades. The terrorist group had even killed large numbers of Americans and Europeans in several terror attacks before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Some 17,000 Iranians have lost their lives in terror attacks in the 35 years after the Revolution.

Rumors were confirmed last September about the death of MKO ringleader, Massoud Rajavi, as a former top Saudi intelligence official disclosed in a gaffe during an address to his followers.

Rajavi’s death was revealed after Turki al-Faisal who was attending the MKO annual gathering in Paris made a gaffe and spoke of the terrorist group’s ringleader as the "late Rajavi" twice.

Faced with Faisal’s surprising gaffe, Rajavi’s wife, Maryam, changed her happy face with a complaining gesture and cued the interpreter to be watchful of translation words and exclude the gaffe from the Persian translation.

February 22, 2017 0 comments

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

MKO hostages’ mothers pen letter to the chief of UNHCR

The forgotten victims of the Rajavi Cult (MKO, MeK, NCR) demand information on their children.

More than 350 suffering mothers of the members of the Rajavi Cult, who live in Iran and who have been deprived of contact with their children and are known as the forgotten victims, have collectively written a letter to Mr Filippo Grandi, Head of the UN High Commission for refugees in Geneva.

The text of the letter signed by more than 350 mothers is as follows:

Mr Filippo Grandi

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,

Geneva, Switzerland

Tehran, October 30, 2016

With regards, as you are already aware, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization does not allow its members any sort of contact with their families and this fact has imposed a great deal of suffering on us as their mothers.

Today in Europe, mothers whose children have been recruited by ISIL and been sent to Iraq and Syria and other parts of the world, are called ‘the forgotten victims’ since they have no means of contact with their loved ones and do not have any information about them.

If you look at our case, we are even more forgotten than those mothers, since unlike them we have not been able to attract any world attention because of political reasons. We do know the whereabouts of our children and have approached them many times and have even gone as near as about 100 meters to them in Iraq. But the MEK leader Massoud Rajavi has denied us from having any contact with or knowledge about our children.

Now that the MEK have all moved to Albania we urge you, as the head of the body responsible for them and their location in Tirana, to use your authority to arrange meetings with our loved ones and let us know about them and how we can contact them. Please do not leave us suffering the way it is at the moment and has been in the past.

We are certain that you can easily arrange this. Therefore, we ask you to respect ours and our loved ones’ human rights and putting aside all the political and regional and international issues; please be brave and help us as mothers to have our rights.

Best Regards,

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October 30, 2016 0 comments

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Embassy of the Republic of France in the Islamic Republic of Iran 85 avenue Neauphle-le-Chateau – Tehran

Embassy of the Republic of France in the Islamic Republic of Iran
85 avenue Neauphle-le-Chateau – Tehran