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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The aged father of MEK member expressed concern about the health of his daughter

Mr. Ahmad Haeri, the suffering father of Shahin Haeri, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in Albania, wrote a letter on behalf of himself and his wife to the World Health Organization (WHO), expressing concern about their daughter’s health.

The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the WHO in Albania

Greetings and best regards,

I am Ahmad Haeri, the father of Shahin Haeri, who is now in the isolated and remote camp of the MEK in Albania with no communication with the outside world.

It goes without saying that my wife and I have not seen our daughter for so many years and we have not heard her voice on the phone and we have not even received a message from her, and this has always bothered us. But now the news that worries us the most is that our daughter has the disease caused by the Covid-19 virus and is living in an acute condition, and the health conditions inside the camp are also unfavorable.

My wife and I are both over 90 years old. As Shahin’s parents, we have the desire at the end of our lives to hear her voice and hear about her health. We are not able to travel due to old age and illness, and of course Albania does not allow us to do so. But is it impossible for her to make a phone call?

I ask you not to neglect any action that is conceivable and fruitful in order to alleviate the worries of the old and elderly mother and father and let the news of our daughter to reach us and to provide the possibility of communication.

There must be fathers and mothers among your staff who are always worried about their children and asking about their condition when they are sick. So you know very well how a mother and a father feel about this. Is it justified to prevent members of the MEK from contacting their families?

Ahmad Haeri

Iran – Yazd – Contact Number 0098-9131566480

Copy to:

Office of the Prime Minister of Albania

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

December 22, 2020 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Covid-19 In MEK Camp – Needs Urgent Intervention

Honourable Director of Albania’s Immigration Office

We would like to inform you that we, a group of former members of the MEK Organization, are concerned about the situation of our former friends who are currently members of the MEK.

During the outbreak of COVID-19, the organization keeps its members in a closed area, which makes the conditions more dangerous for the spread of this disease among people.

You are aware that this organization has closed relations, a has all the characteristics of a mind control cult.

The people who live in this cult collective do not have access to the free world and medical centres. This raises our concerns about the health and wellbeing of the people living in the Manez camp.

In the current situation, with the threat of COVID-19, the lives of these people are in danger. Unfortunately, this organization does not care about the lives of these people.

Due to the dangerous conditions inside the camp and the irresponsible behaviour of the cult leaders towards the lives of the members, we issue this warning, and we call for the prompt intervention of the relevant authorities of your country and Albanian human rights organizations to take control in order to save the lives of these people.

Respectfully: A group of former MEK members

Hassan Heyrani

Abdolrahman Mohammadian

Ali Hajari

Reza Slami

Moosa Damroodi

Gholamali Mirzaei

Parviz Heydarzadeh

Reza Mezginejhad

Hassan Shahbaz

Malek Baitmshaal

Gholamreza Shekari

Ehsan Bidi

Bager Mohammadi

Copy to:

Honorable President of Albania

Prime Minister of Albania

Albanian Ministry of the Interior

Albanian Ministry of Health

RMSA Organization, Albania

United Nations Office, Geneva

Survivors of MEK in Albania, iran-azadi-albania.de

December 19, 2020 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families announce their readiness to send any possible assistance

Letter from the CEO of the Iranian Nejat Society to the representative of the WHO in Albania

Representation of the World Health Organization in Albania
12/12/2020

Greetings and best regards
On behalf of the suffering families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA), I would like to draw your attention to an emerging humanitarian catastrophe due to the spread of Covid-19 in the MEK’s closed and isolated Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Albania.

The alarming news coming from inside the camp indicates that many, estimated to be half the population, have contracted the disease and some are in a critical condition. According to these internal reports, prominent members such as Mahmoud Atai, Ahmad Hanifnejad, Javad Khorasan, Shahin Haeri, Ensieh Goldoust, Farzaneh Maidanshahi, Marzieh Hosseini, and many others who are elderly, are being kept in inappropriate conditions.

Reports emphasize that a very high level of fear and anxiety prevails in the camp. It goes without saying that after the defeat of US President Donald Trump in the U.S. elections and the bleak outlook for the future of the organization confronting the members, an atmosphere of panic and stress has developed, which intensifies the progress of the disease. The members’ lack of access to the outside world has greatly worried their families who are prevented from contacting them.

We also learned that some medicine had been sent from Germany specifically to the camp, which apparently was not enough and much more care was needed. Families are eager to find a way to help and send aid to members inside the camp.

Another issue is the MEK’s withholding of news about what is happening inside the camp, which adds to the concerns of families. It should be noted that between 2016, when the MEK transfer to Albania was completed, until 2019, an average of one person died in the camp every two months. But recent images of the MEK cemetery in Albania show that at least 10 people have died in the past five weeks.

According to information we have obtained, people such as Hassan Zarei, Hassan Salahandish, Gholamreza Pourhashem, Afsaneh Pichgah, Ruhollah Ramvaz, Khalil Hagh Hosseini, Mehdi Hagh Hosseini, Mohammad Qoli Ehsani, and a number of others have died in recent weeks from coronavirus.

A number of MEK members who have died in recent weeks from coronavirus.

A serious problem regarding the MEK camp is the crowded and intensive life and non-observance of health regulations, which greatly increases the speed of disease transmission. Also, the lack of monitoring inside the camp has further caused and accelerated the spread of the disease.

In this regard, it is necessary for the Albanian government and the World Health Organization to enter into the matter and investigate the issue and implement the necessary monitoring. It is also necessary to allow families to communicate with people inside the camp, which has been blocked by the MEK with the support of the Albanian government, so that families can be aware of the health and wellbeing of their loved ones.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of the Iranian Nejat Society
Tehran

Copy to:
President of the WHO
Representation of the WHO in Iran

December 13, 2020 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Second letter of the CEO of the Iranian Nejat Society to CED

UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Petitions and Inquiries Section
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

Greetings and respects,
In your communications about the complaints of the families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA) against the Albanian government you have responded that:
“The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the State Parties.”

The Republic of Albania is a State Party and has signed the Convention. So, the Convention does apply to Albania. It has been noted that all State Parties are obliged to submit reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented.

It should be noted that in accordance with article 31, a State Party may declare that it recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals subject to its jurisdiction claiming to be victims of a violation by this State Party of provisions of this Convention.
The families who wrote to you and complained against Albania are doing so on behalf of individual victims of a violation by the MEK based in Albania which is hiding their loved ones and has disconnected their contact with the outside world, particularly their families.

You also suggested that “in addition to the reporting procedure, article 32 of the Convention provides for the Committee to consider inter-state complaints”.

Hundreds of complaining families preferably desired that the Islamic Republic of Iran would file their complaints collectively on their behalf, and they demanded so by writing to various authorities. But unfortunately it seems that the Iranian government is not so eager to spend time and effort on this subject.

You also demanded “information regarding exhaustion of available domestic remedies”. In all cases the families have written to various Albanian authorities and demanded any form of communication with their loved ones. Unfortunately all these letters and emails are left unanswered.

You might be aware that the Albanian government does not grant visas to Iranian citizens by demand of the MEK. Therefore, the families cannot travel to Albania in order to further try domestic remedies.

Once again I, on behalf of hundreds of suffering families who have sent their complaints along with relevant photos and documents individually, urge you to speed up the process of dealing with the files and find a means of communication with their loved ones who are forcibly disappeared in Albania.

Kind Regards,

Ebrahim Khodabandeh
Iranian Nejat Society CEO

December 2, 2020 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Pourabdollahi family complains to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances

Greetings and Regards
I am Fatemeh Pourabdollahi, the sister of Hussein Pourabdollahi. Hussein served in the army in 1986.

At that time, Iran was involved in the war with Iraq and Hussein was sent to war zones. There he was abducted and taken hostage by the MEK.

In his letters to us, he expressed his nostalgia for the family and He wanted to return to his family as soon as possible. however the MEK cult kidnapped him and since then we have been deprived of seeing him now for more than 30 years.

Hossein Pourabdollahi letter to his family during the war

The MKO cult is currently based in Albania and does not allow us to have any contact with Hussein. We are completely unaware of him.

Due to the corona (Covid-19) epidemic in the world, we are worried about Hussein’s health. The Albanian government is not cooperating with us either. We want to contact Hussein and pave the way for his return to Iran.

Please help us in this regard according to your authority.

Thanks,
Pourabdollahi family
Iran, Kerman province, Rafsanjan
Phone number: +98 921 123 8644 , +98913 500 3085
Email: pourabdollahi.f@gmail.com

November 25, 2020 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Rahim Kiukan’s family complains to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances against the Albanian government

United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office in Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
November 9, 2020

We, the family of Rahim Kiukan, including his wife Behjat Seddiqi and his children Mozhgan, Mehran, Mohsen, and Leila Kiukan and his grandchildren (a total of 12 individuals), want to lodge a complaint against the Albanian government under the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance of which the Albanian government is a signatory.

Rahim Kiukan left Iran in 1981 to join the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in Iraq. We were unaware of this for years until those who left the organization and came back to Iran informed us that he was at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. We have not had any contact with him or any information about his condition for nearly 40 years now.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/Giukan_1.mp4

To download the video file click here

Years later, we were informed that all the members of this organization, who were in Camp Ashraf and then Camp Liberty in Iraq, had been transferred to Albania to a closed and remote camp where the residents could not be reached under any circumstances. Some former members have reported the presence of Rahim Kiukan in the camp.

We wrote letters to the Prime Minister and other Albanian authorities, as well as European officials, asking for information about Rahim Kiukan. We also signed a petition with other families addressed to the Albanian government requesting contact with our relatives at the MEK camp in Albania. This petition had more than 11,000 signatures. Unfortunately, there was no reaction from the Albanian government.

We also prepared letters and video clips addressed to Rahim Kiukan and published them in cyberspace so that he might see or hear them and give news about himself to his family after four decades, but unfortunately there was no news. We are aware that MEK members in their camp in Albania have no access to the outside world.

During this time, we have faced many legal problems regarding the properties of Rahim Kiukan, which can only be resolved with power of attorney from him.
We request the relevant international body to address this issue. We would like to find Rahim Kiukan, who has been missing for four decades, and connect him to his elderly and ailing wife and his children.

Family of Rahim Kiukan
Tehran, Iran

November 10, 2020 0 comment

Albania

Will the Albanian Ombudsman investigate Iranians’ Camp at Manez?

To the Honorable Ombudsman Madame Erinda Ballanca

I am Gjergji Thanasi, an Albanian journalist working predominantly free lance and specialized in investigative journalism. I am addressing my concern to you regarding the ex terrorist Organization MEK (The Mujahedin of the Iranian People), now residing in the Administrative Unit of Manez (Durres Municipality), in a gated and fenced camp called “Ashraf 3”.

Albanian Ombudsman

The members of this organization beginning from 2013 (over 200 persons), and especially in 2016 (several thousand persons) were transferred from Iraq to Albania, as per an undisclosed agreement between the Edi Rama Government and UNHCR.

My concern regarding that camp of such ex terrorists (State Department delisted MEK as a terrorist organization only in 2012) covers not only potential risks to Albania and Albanians, but also the plight of the Iranian members of the said organization, the inmates of “Ashraf 3” Camp at Manez.

Based on my ground investigation I can inform you that this organization labels any member as a mercenary of Mullahs’ regime (the actual Iranian government), as an Iranian spy or even a terrorist, immediately after such a member leaves the organization, gives up his Jihad ( holy war) against Tehran, thus trying to live a normal and quiet life in Tirana. Even veteran members (30 to 40 years) of the organization do not escape continues labeling on different media controlled by the organization as Iranian spies and terrorists immediately after they abandon the ranks of the organization. Such a reaction makes me believe that there are people among the inmates of the “Ashraf 3” Camp who remain in the camp not on their free will.

Honorable Ombudsman

Based on my investigation I inform you that there is a considerable number of inmates of that camp who want to leave this organization, MEK ( The Mujahedin of the Iranian People). They want to de radicalize themselves and they want to spend the remaining years of their lives living normal lives in Tirana far away from the pathetic decade long attempts to commit Jihad against the Regime of Tehran. If my investigation proves to be true, then we can safely assume that the leadership, the commanders of MEK have deprived unlawfully such inmates and such comrades in arms of their personal liberty by forcefully preventing them from leaving the camp for Tirana in order to live a peaceful and civilian life there instead of a paramilitary life in the camp.

I pray to God that my investigation is wrong i.e. there are no modern slaves or serfs in that camp at Manez (Albania). Yet I implore you and your staff to investigate the possibility of the existence of the crime of unlawfully depriving dozens of persons of their personal liberty while living in that camp. I stress the fact that the inmates of “Asraf 3” Camp are not Albanians as they are ethnic Iranians, yet even these Iranians are human beings and as such they should enjoy the universal human rights while living in Albania, a NATO member country and a country candidate member to European Union.

I am using this letter to you Madame Ombudsman to draw your attention to the fact that Premier Rama declared that these Iranians were sheltered in Albania in order to protect their human rights, beginning with the life right and onwards. Precisely in order to protect their presumed violated human rights I addressed my concern to you.

Respectfully Yours,
Gjergji Thanasi
Ashraf News

November 7, 2020 0 comment

Missions of Nejat Society

Request to expedite the processing of hundreds of complaints by families

United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office in Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
November 3, 2020

On behalf of the suffering families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), whose loved ones joined this organization, and now have no information about their status, I would like to inform you that more than six months ago these families sent hundreds of complaints, with detailed documents and explanations. They demanded that the situation of their loved ones who became members of the MEK be investigated.

Nejat families from Khorasan Province

The MEK was stationed at Camp Ashraf in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and was fighting against Iran alongside the Iraqis. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Camp came under US protection and was then handed over to Iraqi forces as ‘the last stronghold of Saddam Hussein’.

At the urging of successive Iraqi governments and with the efforts of the United Nations, the process of MEK expulsion began, and the names of each group leaving Iraq and entering Albania were announced. The process was slow and in very small numbers. But suddenly, in the late summer of 2016, the organization announced that the rest of the people (nearly 3,000), who were supposed to be only several hundreds, had also been transferred to Albania. The names of these people were never published.

MEK members are housed in a remote, isolated camp in Albania where the residents are inaccessible and uncontactable. The families of hundreds of MEK members have no information about the condition of their loved ones.

Also, many of these families have faced various economic and legal problems, including issues related to inheritance, due to the disappearance of these people, and the lack of access to these people has caused them many difficulties for years. MEK members do not have the opportunity to do legal work or appoint a lawyer.

Recently, the MEK reacted to the complaints of these families to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances in its media and tried to make public a few out of their thousands of members and pretend that they have not disappeared but could be found in a certain place. However, their families still have no communication with or access to them.

Hundreds of letters have been sent by these families to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. A small number of respondents have requested the completion of explanations and documents, which has been done immediately, but it seems that the process is very slow.

It should be noted that on February 6, 2007, Albania signed the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, adopted in New York on December 20, 2006, which entered into force on November 8, 2007.

According to Article 31 of the Convention, a State Party must cooperate in the case of the enforced disappearance of any particular person in its own country. Article 32 also emphasizes this issue and the responsibilities of the member states.

These families have sent a great many letters to the Albanian government with the necessary explanations and specifications and have raised a petition signed by more than 11,000 people. The original signatures have been delivered to the Albanian embassy in Paris on 550 pages, but unfortunately there has not been any response from the Albanian government up to now. Therefore, the UN Committee needs to clarify its undertakings on the complaints it has received, and to take legal action to resolve this issue.

On behalf of the families, I would like to thank the Committee on Enforced Disappearances in advance and look forward to learning from you.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh
Nejat Society CEO
Tehran, Iran

November 4, 2020 0 comment

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 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Let us visit our children enslaved at MEK Camps

Nejat families from Arak Province sent letters to the president of Albania

Dear Mr. President,
As suffered mothers, we ask you to allow us travel to your country and visit our beloved children after long years. We are worried about our children conditions.
Albania is a democratic country and defends human rights. So why do you prevent us from visiting our children who are kept in MEK Camps in your country.
Your excellency,
We ask to issue us visa. We just want to see our children.
Sincerely,

Mothers of MEK Captives

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My name is Montaha Zahraei. My son Mostafa Ghaedi has been captivated for 35 years at MKO.
During all these 35 years my son has had no contact, not even in a letter. I wish to see my son after 35 years.

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My name is Aghdas Bandi. My son Hamidreza Noori has been captivated at MKO for 30 years now. The time MKO was in Iraq, I traveled there several times, asking to meet my son. Unfortunately, the cult leaders didn’t allow me to visit my son.

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My name is Fatemeh Rezaei. My son, whose name is Hassan Rezaei, has been a captivated at MKO camps for 36 years.
36 years passed with no contact, not even a letter. I miss my son so much. I lung to hug him once more.

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My name is Soltan Golrizan. I had lost my mother when I was a child. As the oldest sibling, I have raised my brother Abbas Golrizan all by my self. My brother Abbas Golrizan has been captivated by the MKO for the past 30 years now. I am worried about him and have no news regarding his physical well-being.

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My name is Mahin Habibi. My daughter, whose name is Parvane Rabiee Abbasi, has been a captive at MKO for 25 years. She has not been allowed to have any contact with me. I also have no contact information of her.
As a mother, I miss my daughter and wish to see her after all these years of being far away.

October 18, 2020 0 comment

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