Ashraf 3

In the Tirana’s countryside, MEK has constructed a vast compound called Ashraf-3 where men and women lead segregated existences.
The gates are usually firmly closed, guarded by two sculpted lions atop stone pedestals and a large team of Albanian security guards. Unannounced visitors are not welcome at the fenced-off, secretive site, where more than 2,000 MEK members live, marks Shaun Walker.

The cult of Rajavi

Emotional isolation of MEK members

Prohibition of meetings with family members at Ashraf 3 camp has caused a profound and extensive impact on the lives of the Mujahideen, affecting many aspects of their emotional, social, and psychological health. This decision has created a severe atmosphere of isolation and reinforced the feeling of detachment from the outside world, negatively impacting the overall well-being of individuals.

First of all, emotional isolation is one of the most obvious consequences of stopping meetings with family members. Family is often the primary source of emotional support for most individuals. For camp members who face many challenges within a closed environment, connecting with their loved ones would be a valuable opportunity to find solace and emotional stability. Withholding these contacts has created a strong feeling of loss and isolation, significantly deteriorating their mental health. Camp members feel cut off from the outside world and often face a deep sense of loneliness, which makes them more vulnerable to depression and stress.

In addition, the lack of contact with family members has also increased tensions and concerns within the camp. While these meetings could have provided some sort of stability and security for members, banning them has created an atmosphere charged with uncertainty and stress. Members often feel frustrated and worried about their families, experiencing anxiety about their well-being, and feeling unable to do anything to help. This lack of connections with loved ones has worsened their overall well-being and has caused internal tensions in the camp.

Another important aspect affected by this ban is the importance of social connections and support the family provides. Social connections are necessary for motivation and emotional stability of individuals. Family not only provides emotional support, but it is also an important source of motivation and guidance for many people. When camp members feel cut off from this vital support, they often experience a drop in morale and lose their sense of purpose or motivation. Furthermore, social isolation negatively affects the ability of individuals to maintain good mental health and cope with stress.

On the other hand, banning meetings with family members may reinforce the perception that the group is closed-minded and controlling, creating distrust and anxiety among camp members. When contact with family is banned, members may feel trapped and limited in their personal decisions. This situation makes them feel controlled and unable to influence their lives, reinforcing the perception that the group is closed to the outside world and does not want to create spaces for external dialogue or connection. This perception can weaken their confidence in group leaders and cause a heightened sense of distrust and discontent.

Another critical aspect is the impact that this ban has on the process of rehabilitation and integration of individuals. Contacting family is often an essential part of the rehabilitation process for individuals who have experienced major trauma or challenges in life. Family provides a sense of belonging and stability, which is important for emotional and psychological recovery. Prohibiting meetings with families has hindered this rehabilitation process, bringing ongoing emotional and psychological problems to camp members. This restriction makes it harder for them to cope with inner challenges and find emotional peace.

In summary, banning meetings with family members at Ashraf 3 camp has had profound and multiple impacts on the lives of its members. This decision has created emotional isolation, increased tensions and concerns, weakened social support and has negatively impacted the rehabilitation process of individuals. For camp members, contact with family members is an important part of their emotional and social wellbeing, and a lack of this contact has worsened their overall condition.

Ela Sulollari (Deda)

October 19, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Albanian citizen comments on the MEK isolated members

Every time I see the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in the streets of Tirana, I recognize them without hesitation. This quick recognition is not only because of their appearance, but also because of their special way of behaving, which is very different from the world around them. MEK members always move in groups of three or four, as if this structure is part of their strategy of solidarity or looking out for each other. This habit alone can indicate the depth of belonging to the group, which may have been rooted from long years of struggle and living in closed environments.

But what attracts more attention than anything else is the way they are covered. The clothes they are wearing, especially the old and worn trousers, take me back to the time when Albania was under the leadership of Enver Hoxha. These clothes seem to be a symbol of forty years ago, an era that seems to have never ended for them. This old and repetitive clothing style is a reflection of a past life. It is as if these people have stopped in time and are not willing to accept changes and modernity. Even the shoes they wear are the same and unchanged, a sign of a cultural uniformity that has kept itself separate from the outside world.

Every time I come across these scenes, these people appear in my mind like beings from another planet, as if they have mistakenly stepped here, in Tirana. This mental image may be caused by some kind of alienation that ripples in their behavior and appearance. But behind this superficial image lies a deeper story of the political and ideological past. A story of a group that was born with revolution and struggle, but now in the midst of the turmoil of a changing world, it still adheres to old traditions and beliefs.

I hope that a day will come when these people can make the right decision for their future. A decision that will bring them out of the shadow of the past and from isolation and connect them to the modern and real world.

I always get a lump in my throat when I talk to family or friends and tell them stories about the Rajavi cult and their base in Manez, Durres. Since the members of this group have not been able to see their families for many years, they have stayed away from their parents, siblings. These stories create a deep sense of fear and concern because they show how controlling and restrictive this cult can be. In a world where technological advancements make it possible to be connected to the whole world, it is strange that this group still uses its members in the style of old times, isolated from the real world.

This situation is not only an example of the internal dictatorship of an organization, but also reminds of the dark times of slavery. Where a person is forcibly deprived of the outside world and even the smallest human rights are ignored.

Edona Hunda, Member of Nejat Society Albania

October 14, 2024 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

CEO of Nejat Society pens letter to the ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross

Greetings and Regards,

On behalf of the Nejat Society in Iran, I wish to congratulate the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day on Wednesday, May8, 2024.
Nejat Society represents the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) who are trapped in a remote and isolated camp in Albania. These families have not heard from their loved ones for many years, which is because the leaders of the cult do not allow their members to communicate with the outside world, particularly family and friends.
According to those who managed to escape from this camp, the most basic human rights of the members are violated and the European Convention on Human Rights, which Albania is also a signatory, is systematically violated.

In the mandate & mission of the Red Cross we read:
It (ICRC) takes action in response to emergencies and promotes respect for international humanitarian law and its implementation in national law.
The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.
. . . the ICRC, with the support of the entire Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, has constantly urged governments to adapt international humanitarian law to changing circumstances, . . .
According to this mandate, when the basic human rights of the members of the MEK are continuously violated inside the camp of this organization in Albania and the members are exposed to systematic brainwashing, the World Red Cross ought to urge the Albanian government to implement international and European humanitarian laws in MEK camp in Albania.
Last year, I submitted the families’ requests to connect with their loved ones, along with many documents to the ICRC office in Tehran, and they promised to handle the case and cooperate, but so far no answer has been received.

On behalf of the grieving and awaiting families, I request you to fulfill the main task of the International Committee of the Red Cross and provide the possibility of communication between the families and the missing members inside the MEK camp in Albania through the Albanian government.

The families have absolutely no information about the situation in the camp and the conditions of their loved ones. They do not know if their loved ones are still alive and live inside the camp. No one knows whether they have deceased or have been transferred to another country. There is no information about the physical and mental health of these people. Are they imprisoned and curfewed? These people are considered missing and disapeared from the point of view of their families. According to the information received from the former members, the relations inside the camp have the status of modern slavery, due to the mind control that is applied.

I also request you to remind the responsibility of the government of Albania to comply with the human rights convention of the Council of Europe and ask this government to firstly remove the ban on giving visas to Iranian families of members of the MEK to travel to Albania and secondly open the doors of the camp in Albania to families and the free world so that families can visit their loved ones along with representatives of the Red Cross and be sure of their physical and mental health.

I look forward to your reply

Respectfully,
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of Najat Society

May 11, 2024 0 comments

Albania

What we expect from the Albanian government?

More than 7 years have passed since September 2015, when the relocation of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from Iraq to Albania was completed. The group has been settled in the territory of a European country, Albania, which is one of the signatories of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). But they still behave as if they are under the umbrella of the former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein; The MEK apply their cult-like mind control system over members; they do not allow their members to decide with their own free will.

For nearly eight years, the leaders of the MEK cult have deprived the members of their basic human rights in Europe as well, and instead of allowing the members to contact and communicate with their families, they have brainwashed them.

Why should the members of the MEK in Albania be so enslaved and trapped by the cult leaders that they cannot freely choose a profitable job for themselves like any other refugee in the country. The Rajavis should stop forcing defectors to spy other defectors by threatening them.

Why shouldn’t the members have the right to marry and live independently after being in Albania for about 8 years? They should be given the opportunity to live a normal life, get married and have children.

Why can’t the media activists freely go inside the Manez camp in Albania, so that the voices of the dissident members can be heard. With the withdrawal of cult-like control over members, the truth of inside the camp will be known to public and the government of Albania.

Why should the sick members be kept under the control of the MEK inside the Manez camp like slaves”? They are deprived of medical, medicinal and convalescent needs. Eventually, some of
them die or come close to death every day.

Undoubtedly, if the Albanian government had prevented the leaders of the MEK from continuing their cult-like and violent actions in its country, the death rate in this cult would have been significantly reduced. If the Albanian government had proper control over the Cult of Rajavi, many members who died due to diseases would be alive now.

Why does the Albanian government allow the leaders of a destructive cult, who boast of their violent and terrorist actions and incite people to violent acts, to continue this propaganda?

Didn’t the government of Albania notice how the leaders of the MEK led their members to clash with the police on June 30th, 2023?

Isn’t the experience of the MEK conflicts with different Iraqi governments after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and their experience of conflict with the Albanian police not enough for the government of this country to realize that the group is violent in nature.

The government of Albania must pave the way to remove cult-like regulations from the isolated Manez camp and instead, the law governing the country of Albania should be applied in the camp. This is the minimum expectation that the families of MEK members have from the Albanian government and it is the minimum that the Albanian government should as the consequence of hosting the group.

As Iranians, it is our tradition to visit each other during Nowruz and spend the New Year with our closest relatives. I hope the government of Albania fulfills this minimum request of the families, which is to visit their beloved children, and allow the families of the members taken as hostages in the Cult of Rajavi to have the opportunity to contact and meet their children freely.

Iraj Salehi, defector of the MEK and member of Nejat Society
Translated by Mazda Parsi

April 2, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Modern slavery in Europe on the verge of the second quarter of the 21st century

Currently, nearly 2000 members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) have been settled in an isolated and remote camp near Manëz or Manzë city in Durrës province for about 7 years. They consider themselves to be the alternative of the Islamic Republic of Iran and want to overthrow the current Iranian regime by resorting to violence and bloodshed. By its own admission, this group is responsible for the lives of about 12,000 individuals in Iran.
The MEK actively participated in the Iran-Iraq war under Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq for many years, of course on the side of Iraq and against its own country, and also participated in many crimes against the people of Iraq, especially the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the governments of Iraq one after the other wanted the exit of this organization, which they considered a threat to national security, until finally based on the agreement made with the then government of Sali Berisha (the leader of the right-wing Democratic Party of Albania). This organization was transferred to Albania with all its members as a humanitarian measure and settled in an isolated and remote camp near the city of Manëz in Durrës province.
What was narrated above is related to the recent and distant past and is not the subject of this article. Our current issue is a completely human rights matter. In addition to everything that has been said, the MEK violates the most basic human rights of its members on a daily and systematic basis. This is our issue today. It can be boldly said that there is no outside control over the internal anti-human relations of this camp in Albania, and practically modern slavery has been exposed in Europe on the threshold of the second quarter of the 21st century, and the Albanian government either does not want or cannot take action, to stop this process.

Mrs. Ela Deda, a criminologist and the legal director of the Nejat Society of Albania, in her speech at the women’s conference of the Nejat Society of Albania on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Friday, March 8, 2024, at Villa Nejat Hall in Tirana, stated:

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (official name: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international instrument for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. This convention was prepared in 1950 by the Council of Europe. It is mentioned in this convention that:

Article 2 – Right to life (Article 2 protects the right to life of every person).

Article 3 – Prohibition of Torture (Article 3 prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and there are no exceptions or limitations to this right.)

Article 5 – Right to liberty and security (Article 5 stipulates that everyone has the right to liberty and personal security.)

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life (Article 8 stipulates the right to respect private and family life.)

Article 10 – Freedom of expression (Article 10 protects freedom of expression limited only by “lawful” restrictions that are “necessary in a democratic society.” This right also includes freedom of thought.)

Article 12 – The right to marry (Article 12 states the right to marry and form a family for adult women and men [1]).
Meanwhile, the Republic of Albania wants to enter the European Union and is trying to align itself with the European legal and judicial standards. It is worth mentioning that this convention is approved by the Council of Europe and the Republic of Albania, as a member of the Council of Europe, is one of the signatories of this convention [2].
Now we will discuss some provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and its examples in the Manëz camp in Albania:

Article 2 – Right to life

The MEK in Albania does not pay the least attention to the health of its members in terms of medical and health care, and the deaths that are constantly reported indicate this lack of care. It does not mean that treatment facilities are not available, but the MEK has deprived people of free access to these facilities. Many reports have been received that there is a lot of delay in bringing people to doctors and hospitals in Durrës or Tirana due to the fear of dissatisfied people running away. MEK members cannot easily leave the camp and go to medical centers in Albania.

Article 3 – Prohibition of torture

Former members of the MEK have reported systematic acts of psychological and physical repression in the inquisition meetings, as well as insults, humiliation, slander, and even physical encounters for forced coercion in the Manëz camp in Albania. The psychological destruction of the members has sometimes led them to the border of insanity, and currently there are many mental cases inside the camp that are kept in complete isolation. Inhumane and humiliating treatment is a common practice in the MEK in Albania to destroy people’s psychological defense so that they can take away the ability to say “no” from them so that they always give a positive answer to any illegitimate request.

Article 5 – Right to liberty and security

No member of the MEK in Albania feels safe and is always afraid of being targeted for repression and punishment, without reason. In the MEK, there are no written rules and regulations that can be cited, on which a person can be accused and punished, but the discernment of the leaders at any time is considered as law and regulation. It has been officially announced that the wishes of the organization’s leadership at any time are considered the law of that time.

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life

No one in the Manëz camp of the MEK in Albania has any privacy whatsoever. The MEK has invalidated and prohibited any kind of privacy based on its cultic doctrine. Based on the brainwashing that takes place, people are even obliged to report their night’s sleep and pay for it. Free thinking is rejected under the title of mental wandering or intellectual liberalism.

Article 10 – Freedom of expression

People in the Manëz camp do not have the right to disagree or even question the performance of the organization and its leadership. The MEK in Albania has a cultic pyramid structure with the leader at the top of the pyramid. Criticism is allowed only from top to bottom, and towards oneself in front of the official. No question is answered by logical discussion but psychological repression is done to silence the person. All methods of forced coercion are constantly used.

Article 12 – The right to marry

The right to fall in love, get married, form a family, and have children in the camp of the MEK in Albania does not exist at all. Forced celibacy, which is an anti-human imposition, is applied within the relations of the MEK in Albania. In the Manëz camp, gender segregation is implemented in the most severe possible way. There are no families or children in this camp. The family is called a nest of corruption. The main enemy of everyone is considered to be his family.
All of the above and many more clearly prove that destructive cultic mind control methods are practiced inside the remote and isolated Manëz camp. According to the laws and regulations in European countries, brainwashing and mind control and the impositions carried out in this camp are crimes, but the Albanian police and judicial system have closed their eyes on these cases for years.

Right now, in the most blatant way possible, the rights enshrined in the European Convention, drafted, ratified and enforced in the mid-20th century, are being violated on Albanian soil by a destructive mind control cult, and it is the responsibility of the Albanian government to put an end to this situation. And put an end to cultic relations in Manëz camp in Durrës province, which is nothing but modern slavery.

All human rights organizations should demand that the gates of this mysterious camp with medieval connections be opened to the media, government officials and human rights investigators to find out what is going on inside this terrible fortress. Many former members inside and outside Albania are ready to testify at any place and at any time to provide details of this blatant violation of the most basic human rights of the members.

The fact that the MEK has been able to force people to voluntarily give up their human rights, by using mind control methods over time in its cultic base, does not fundamentally change anything, and the responsibility lies with the human rights institutions. Humanity does not accept this, because in practice what is really happening is that still the most basic human rights are violated, and this situation must be terminated immediately. If a person does not demand his rights due to mind control and brainwashing methods in an isolated environment and even volunteers for brutal mental and physical torture, should the torturer be allowed for doing it?

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1- The European Convention on Human Rights, (official: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms), is an international treaty for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe, which was drafted in 1950 by the New Foundation prepared by the Council of Europe, and entered into force on September 3, 1953.
European Convention on Human Rights
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_FAS
This convention has 59 articles and 16 additional protocols, in each clause of which there are many examples from within the organization, which are enough to condemn the MEK for violating basic human rights.

2- The Council of Europe (It is different from the European Union and should not be mistaken) has 46 members from European countries, including Albania. Albania is one of the countries that has signed the European Convention on Human Rights and is committed to its implementation.

March 24, 2024 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Nowruz for MEK hostages and their families

On the eve of the Iranian new year, Nowruz, Iranians all over the world try to have gatherings with their loved ones, except for those who are in the camp of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). They have no way out of their enclosed camp in Manez, in north of Albania. On the other side of the bars of the camp are the families of the MEK’s hostages who have been looking forward to the release of their loved ones for decades.

Every year, Nowruz is considered an opportunity by families of the MEK members to indicate their love, attention and concern to their beloved relatives who are kept under the modern slavery of the Cult of Rajavi. The manipulation system of the cult deprives the hostages of any way of contact with their friends and families.

The families send letters and video messages for Nejat society to publish on the website in the hope that their loved ones could find the chance to get their messages. The possibility of getting the message is not really high because members of the MEK are under a strict cult-like control. However, their families do not lose hope. Sending new year wishes has become like a tradition for the activists of Nejat Society.

The families know that their beloved parents, children, siblings and cousins who are in the MEK have missed an authentic Nowruz celebration for years. Every Nowruz, their organizational task for Nowruz is to wear uniforms, chant in front of the photos of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi and listen to their long speeches about their confidence in the overthrow the Iranian government this year. This is the repetitive story of every Nowruz celebration inside the MEK.

Nejat Society, as the representative of families of MEK hostages and defectors of the group, wishes both families and their loved ones in Manez camp the reunion and sharing of love and happiness with each other. May the Iranian year, 1403, offers them the best possibilities to break through the slavery of the Rajavis.

March 18, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

How the media can change the life of MEK hostages

As a destructive cult, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) keep its members in isolation. Members of the group has no access to the media. They are not allowed to contact the outside world by any means. The only accessible media is the group’s TV channel which censures the news in accordance with the ideology of the Cult of Rajavi. Aldo Sulollari, the Albanian journalist and a member of Nejat Society Albania, has published a piece on the Albanian Kristal TV emphasizing the impact of the media to develop human relations. In case of the MEK members, the media have so far aided the reunion of many families.
In his recent article on Kristal TV, Solullari refers to two brothers who are former members of the MEK. After the younger brother, Sarfaraz, left the group, he was never allowed to visit or call his brother Bijar who was still taken as a hostage in the MEK. However, the media finally helped them reunite after years of separation. Bijar escaped the MEK’s headquarter in Albania, Ashraf 3, last July about eight years after his brother had left.
Aldo Sulollari wrote the article in Albanian under the title “An interview that changed human relations, the truth must be ‘shouted’” :

How important is the media and its investment in society?
In the Albanian society there is a group that came here with a humanitarian shelter status and that came as a necessity of a more westernized life. Albania first opened its doors to over 300 Iranians and then over 3,000 of them stay in the Manza camp, Ashraf 3.

The MEK organization came to Albania promising their members that the world is beautiful and that they would integrate into the countries that created their agreement.
Some of them chose to leave the MEK camp, surrendering to the Albanian institutions, demanding freedom, and showing their truth.

They state that in the previous organization, they could not communicate with their families, the use of mobile phones was not allowed, and the couples who were put together were not allowed to remain under the status of husband and wife, but would be treated as strangers.
MEK had told them that if they left their camp, they would be isolated by the Albanian police, and that our institutions were harsh.

However, the truth turns out differently.
Sarfaraz Rahimi, a member of the Nejat association, stated in the media that he had sought to communicate with his brother, Bijar Rahimi, who was also in the MEK camp and was not allowed to communicate together. To connect him with the media, this story was published in the national media Euronews Albania, where his interview was broadcast. Here the media played a very important role to change the life history of the two brothers for the better.

Bijar Rahimi had been following the story of his brother, who was looking for him in the media, and felt deceived when the MEK organization had told him that your brother Sarfarazi never looked for you, but simply married an Albanian girl, and did not care about you.

Rahimi brothers, who are Baluch Iranians, reunited, and started their new life, following their passions and professions. This is proof that the media plays a very important role.

It was me again, who, together with Mr. Bijar Rahimi, once again dared to tell the Albanian public what Bijar’s life was like inside that camp, and he proves that life outside, in Albania, is fantastic, and that Albanian institutions are wonderful.
Another Iranian had seen this interview and he was Ali Zamani, he chose to live free, and understood through the media, that life is beautiful.

The media chooses its own mission, to support the truth, or to make biased political propaganda, showbiz or any other sector where it can depend.
This was a true story, how incredible is that the media chose to change life for the better.

Aldo Sulollari – Journalist, Nejat Society Albania – Kristal TV – Translated by Nejat Society

February 13, 2024 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

A letter to my brother; hostage at the MEK Camp

Dear Hadi,
I hope you are well and that there is still something left of your love and affection for Iran, Semnan and your family.

We are fine here. After many years of work, effort and service, I am now retired and I am having fun in the garden. But believe me, we will never forget you. I always think of your return. I always wonder even though you were a person of thought and logic, how can you spend your life in vanity and nonsense in this cult-like group? And with what logic do you convince yourself?!

Javad Nasiri-the brother of MEK hostage Hadi Nasiri

After years of wasting your life in vain, isn’t it time for you to think a little and make a decision with the courage that I used to know in you and release yourself from this prison?
Even if you don’t come to Iran, at least decide freely for your future and live wherever you like outside of the Mujahedin Khalq’s prison so that we can communicate with each other freely and easily whenever we want.

When you were here before, we had high hopes for your future, but I don’t know how and with what motivation you fell on this path.
However, there is still time to make a decision and we are impatiently waiting for good news from you. I hope that one day soon I will hear the news of your release from this hellish organization and I will be able to hear your voice and see your image freely.
Hoping that day, I entrust you to God.

Your brother, Javad Nasiri

February 6, 2024 0 comments

Albania

Options for Albania: either to expel or extradite the leaders of the MEK

When we defected the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and planned to return to Iran, it was said that except for 50 MEK leaders who are on the black list, the rest were included in amnesty and can return to Iran. Most of the families who were worried about If their loved ones decide to leave and return to Iran, will they be in danger of being arrested and tried or not? Now this list has increased to 104 people who are being tried in Tehran court.

Although everyone in their organization knows if they were directly involved in a crime or not? Or they were just members who were deceived and taken to the group, and it can be concluded that all the defectors who decided to return to Iran know that they did not participate in any crime against the Iranian people, and they do not have private complaints.

But from the point of view of international law, now the question arises as to why the Albanian government has sheltered the members of this black list in its country with the participation and direct order of the American government? We, the defectors, are also complaining to the Albanian government that why has the MEK been settled in their country as a legal entity that violates our rights? Why should the group be formed in Ashraf 3 in a coherent way and no one has the right to enter and leave freely?

The government of Albania was supposed to fulfill the preparations for de-radicalizing of MEK members in the path to free life, but now, more than 7 years have passed since the members of the organization entered the territory of Albania, this task has not been realized. When the Albanian police entered the Ashraf 3 headquarters on June 30 this year, we all saw that the leaders of the terrorist organization were reminiscing about their previous and terrorist organizations and had no idea of releasing the captive members of the organization.

As always and like what the French government did on June 17, the MEK leaders should be treated by force, after examining all the shameful records of the organization, it is important to conclude that in the first place we, defectors, should complain to the Albanian government that they are torturers and corrupters. The givers of our life and youth have sheltered us in their country, now that the government of Iran has started the trial of 104 of the heads of the MEK and the organization itself as a legal entity, it is appropriate that the complaint of us is also related to this case between the governments of Iran and Albania should be annexed and our complaint, which is now between the two governments of Iran and Albania, should be submitted to the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the government of Albania should be held accountable for sheltering the leaders of the MEK in its territory.

The MEK has always spent its life in the gaps and conflicts between Iran and its enemies. There is a gap between the definitions between a liberation movement and terrorism! It is obvious that a group that has killed 17,000 Iranian people and has thousands of its members killed or tortured and imprisoned within the group is not a liberating organization.

The Albanian government is blamed for harboring terrorists. Masoud Rajavi, who escaped and if he is still alive, is in the rat hole, but Maryam Rajavi and the heads of the group, as the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, which is a legal entity, should not travel freely between countries, international criminals should not travel freely, and the judges of the Hague Court should oblige the governments not to shelter terrorists, the Albanian government has no right either. If it tolerates the terrorists any more, the Albanian government has two options: either to expel or extradite the leaders of the MEK.

The heads of the Albanian government should be held accountable in the Hague court. They should be asked why they gave shelter to the terrorists? Those terrorists who are organized and conduct terrorist trainings in their organizations including bomb making and launching explosives in public places.

Some of these terrorists received political asylum and cannot be extradited or tried, although such people do not have the right to be members of a formerly terrorist designated organization. Giving shelter to a group of rebels with a violent background means that if an opportunity is provided, they will continue their terrorist acts again. Before granting asylum to asylum seekers, governments have been asked by the United Nations to ensure that these people have not been involved in committing terrorist acts, and after granting asylum, they must take care of the status of asylum seekers.

For these reasons, even their political asylum should be canceled, and granting the right of political asylum should not create immunity for terrorists to continue their terrorist acts. Violence in any form is prohibited, and the Albanian government has no right to support terrorists from its territory and openly endanger the interests of other countries.

The Albanian government seems to be indifferent to the actions of the MEK in its territory. The 1937 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism (1937 Geneva Convention) can be considered the first international convention on terrorism. This convention defines the act of terrorism as “criminal actions against a government with the aim of causing terror in certain individuals and groups or at the level of society.”

Conspiracy, incitement to commit a criminal act, incitement of people to do something, even if it is not successful, or voluntary participation and cooperation in criminal acts are among the things mentioned in this convention. The government of Albania allows the MEK to finance terrorists from the Albanian territory, now the government of Albania is accused of supporting a terrorist group.

The fact is that terrorism is one of the main threats to international peace and security. This action has a criminal aspect and cannot be justified in any way and under any circumstances.

January 29, 2024 0 comments

Albania

letter of the CEO of Nejat Society to the authorities in the Albanian government

Ebrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of the Nejat Society, wrote a detailed letter to the authorities in the Albanian government, which was delivered by the Nejat Society of Albania on January 24 of this year, along with some attachments. This letter contained new information as well as requests from the Albanian government.
Parts of this letter are summarized as below:

To the responsible authorities in the Albanian government
Greetings and respect

I would like to present some issues as follows:
On June 20 of last year, the isolated and remote camp of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania was inspected by police forces with a judicial directive. Of course, the reaction of the organization was violent and illegal, as it appears from its cultic nature and has been repeated in Iraq and other countries in the past.
Before that, the respected Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania announced in various interviews and statements that the MEK members were accepted in Albania for humanitarian reasons, but they did not adhere to their commitments and became a threat to national security. It is not a secret to anyone that the MEK targets the psychological and physical security of the Iranian people from the territory of Albania.

During the 7 years that the MEK has enjoyed the unrestricted hospitality of the country of Albania, the families of its members have been deprived of receiving visas and traveling to Albania and visiting their loved ones. After the turning point of June 20, the families expected that, firstly, an opening would be provided for the suffering families to travel to Albania, and secondly, the hostile actions of the MEK against the people of Iran would be prevented, but in both cases, the expectations were not fulfilled.

The ban on families entering Albania, which is said to have been at the request of the MEK, is still in force months after the violent and cultic nature of the MEK was exposed, and as far as the families are concerned, the conditions in Albania has not changed after June 20 and this cult is fully allowed to firstly violate the most basic human rights of its members and secondly to threaten the security of the Iranian nation from the territory of Albania.

The government of Albania has announced that it does not provide the Internet to the MEK camp in Albania, but the MEK continues to widely attract individuals from the Albanian soil through the Internet with deception or inducement or even threats, and leads destructive and abusive actions according to those who recently left the organization. This process continues with all intensity from the organization’s camp in Albania, as it was in the past. Several cases of recent confessions to such actions from the organization’s own propaganda machine are attached.

As you are aware, since the MEK entered Albania, many members have separated and some have begun to expose the internal affairs of the organization. Some of these former members have organized themselves in Albania and have been supported by their families and the Nejat Society. These people want to return to normal life as soon as possible with the help of Nejat Society and responsible authorities. The people who are under the protection of the Nejat Society fully adhere to the laws and regulations of the country of Albania and avoid political and intelligence activities; and based on their sense of responsibility towards the families, they engage in human rights activities to fulfill the wishes of the family.
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Below, I will summarize the demands of the families and the Nejat Society:
A policy be adopted so that the families be pleased after years of sorrow and hardship. There are people inside the MEK camp who want to leave. Respected authorities can create a space for these people to have access to their families and to the Nejat Society so that they can choose and experience a free life if they wish. The people inside the camp have been in an isolated environment and under cultic brainwashing for years, and they have no image of the world outside of the cult, and they are unnecessarily afraid of it and consider themselves unable to face it.

An arrangement be made to give visas to the families of former and current members of the MEK. These families and the Nejat Society pledge to firstly obey the laws and regulations of the Albanian government and the rules set by the responsible authorities, and secondly, their stay in Albania is limited to the duration of their visas.

A procedure be taken to remove the bans and cultic boundaries of the camp of the MEK in Albania, so that the members stationed there can communicate freely with the outside world. It means that the MEK should treat its members like all other organizations, groups and parties, and should not violate the basic human rights of its members and their families and recognize them.

Sincerely,
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of Najat Society

January 28, 2024 0 comments

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