A number of families of the trapped members in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) camp in Albania jointly signed a letter addressed to Dr. Mai Sato, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, during which they drew her attention to the gross violation of the most basic human rights in the Manëz camp, and demanded immediate action.
The text of the letter is as follows:
Dr. Mai Sato
United Nations
Human Rights Special Procedures
Special reporter on the Islamic Republic of Iran
Greetings and respect
We have learned that you have been appointed to the position of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and have officially started your task on August 1, 2024. First of all, we would like to congratulate you on your appointment to the new post and wish you success in the sensitive and delicate mission ahead of you.
We are the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO). Our loved ones are currently living in a closed and remote camp of the MEK in Albania without any contact with the outside world, especially with family, friends and acquaintances.
During these years, the MEK has maintained and controlled its forces through deception and mind control, and has deprived them of marriage, family formation, and contact with the free world.
Through the media of the MEK, we learned that this organization had meetings with you and established communication with you. This organization, which acclaims the violation of human rights in Iran, has a heavy case of violating the most basic human rights of its own members and their families.
The “European Convention on Human Rights” refers to provisions of human rights that are completely violated in the MEK camp in Albania, according to the testimony of a large number of members who managed to escape. These survivors are ready to testify about this wherever necessary.
According to the relevant convention, these items include:
European Convention on Human Rights
The MEK, led by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, is a terrorist cult that has committed many crimes inside Iran. This organization also entered the war against its own country in collaboration with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and then suppressed the uprising of the Iraqi people as Saddam Hussein’s private army. Currently, this organization is highly hated among Iranian people and even among other opponents of the Islamic Republic.
We, the undersigned, request you to question the MEK regarding the violation of human rights inside the closed and remote camp of this organization near the city of Manëz in Durrës province in Albania and ask this organization to open the doors of its camp for journalists and independent international officials to visit and provide the possibility of communication between families and people inside the camp.
We are waiting for your kind response and action
Thanks and regards
The families of members trapped inside the MEK camp in Albania
The list of names of the families, who signed this letter, to the extent that it was possible to access and sign the letter in a short notice, is attached. More names and signatures will be sent later.