ASILA Association

Women Council of ASILA traveled to the city of Shkodër

Members of Women Council of the association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) traveled to Shkodër in line with the goals defined for this council.

Shkodër is the fifth most populous city of the Republic of Albania. During the trip, members of ASILA Women Council introduced their association by holding a tour with different programs. They also tried to convey the message of families of members who are taken as hostages by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp to the citizens of this city.

Various of other issues were raised in these meetings. Interviews were also conducted. Video clips of the interviews will be published soon.

ASILA’s Women Council was established by female members of the association, in April 2023. The main mission of the council is to be the voice of the families of MEK hostages, in particular their mothers, in the Albanian society.

Women Council of ASILA traveled to the city of Shkodër

August 13, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The Voice of Families conference was held in Tirana

On Friday, August 13, 1402, Asila Association held a conference titled “Voice of Families” in Tirana, Albania. The Association for the Support of Iranians living in Albania called the purpose of holding this public conference “to bring the voice of the waiting families of members of the Cult of Rajavi.”

The Voice of Families conference was held at Dora Hotel in Tirana and was welcomed by the guests. The executive director of the conference was Erisa Rahimi and the head organizer was Ella Dada.

Dashamir Mersuli, president of Asila, Aldo Solullari, media manager of Asila, Khalil Ansarian, Hamid Atabay, as well as Bijar Rahimi, a new member of Asila, who recently left the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), spoke at the conference.

The Voice of Families conference

The conference also had guests from Iran: Soraya Abdullahi addressed the audience online, which was very impressive. Also, two video messages from Saeed Hosseini’s mother, Masoumeh Hosseini, and Fereydoon Nedai’s mother were played for the participants. The speeches of these mothers greatly impressed the guests.

The speeches of Bijar Rahimi, who had left the MEK a few days ago, and the facts he told from inside the camp of Cult of Rajavi were shocking for the audience.

The conference lasted three hours and at the end, the final statement was read by Hamid Atabay. It was then signed by all of the attendants of the conference.

Finally, Erisa Rahimi appreciated all of the families, Nejat Society and its CEO, Ebrahim Khodabandeh, for their support to Asila. He also thanked Dashamir Mersouli, the president of Asila, on behalf of the members and families.

The film of this conference will soon be made available to the public, especially the honorable families of Nejat Society in Iran.

August 6, 2023 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Statement of ASILA on the separation of another MEK member

Hereby, we inform our valued compatriots and respected families about the brave escape of Mr. Bijar Rahimi from the captivity of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) and we express our congratulations to the great family of Najat Society, particularly Mr. Rahimi’s family.
The joining of Mr. Bijar Rahimi to ASILA promises that despite all the problems the MEK created, ASILA is still a safe destination for those who no longer want to tolerate the new slavery in the isolated and remote camp of this organization and wish to save themselves from the mental and physical captivity of this destructive cult.

ASILA would like to appreciate the support of the Nejat Society and Families, especially Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the respected CEO of the society, in helping to rescue Mr. Bijar Rahimi. It is also necessary to thank the cooperation of the Albanian police for guaranteeing the security of the former members, including Mr. Bijar Rahimi.
Hoping for the release of other captives under the clutches of the Rajavi Cult.
Tirana, July 30, 2023

August 5, 2023 0 comments

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The evil “Hydra” Rajavi vs Albanian NGO ASILA

From Spring 2013 till late 2016 the Rajavi Cult was transferred from Baghdad to Albania. They set up shops in Albania thanks to an opaque agreement between Albanian government and UNHCR.

The agreement was backed politically and financially by the then American administration. The Cult was transferred from the outskirts of Tirana, the Albanian capital, to a gated compound named Ashraf 3 Camp at Manez, a township part of Durres municipality. Ashraf Camp is situated at a quite strategic location in equidistance from Tirana, the capital city. Durres is the main port and the second biggest city of Albania and Rinas Airport was the only civilian airport in Albania up to a couple of years ago.

The Rajavi Cult gradually became a security concern and a public order headache to Albania, the host country. Unfortunately, the Rama government had to yield to almost any whimsical demand of the Cult. Albania, a NATO member and European country candidate for EU membership, had to connive at gross violations of human rights committed beyond the chicken wire mash surrounding Ashraf camp. As an Albanian, a journalist, citizen I was ashamed of the Albanian government and its approach towards the Rajavi Cult. The bootlicker government said yes to almost every Rajavi Cult decision and practice such as: marriage is “haram”, having kids “haram”, family “haram”, talking to family members (let alone meeting them) “haram”, slave like unpaid work by elderly and frail health members “halal”, murder of Cult members disguised as swimming accident “halal”, murder of an Albanian citizen disguised as work accident “halal”, harassment of dissidents of the Cult “halal”, engagement in terror activities against a sovereign nation “halal”, etc.

NGO ASILA

In October 2021 the dissidents of the Rajavi Cult in Albania and some Albanian friends of them supported an initiative by Hassan Heyrani to establish and duly register at the respective Albanian institutions an NGO named ASILA (Association for the Support of Iranians in Albania). Our NGO immediately became an eyesore to the Rajavi Cult. The dissidents of this Cult and their Albanian friends were a constant target of a slander campaign by Rajavi and her well-paid friends among current and former foreign politicians.

ASILA under the firm hand of its CEO Mersuli struggled on and enlarged its activity to the benefit of its Iranian members, but also serving as a beacon of hope and an image of freedom for the poor and downtrodden inmates of Ashraf 3 Camp at Manez. A number of people defected sometimes even in uncanny ways from the Cult. Freedom for such a Cult is as harmful and deadly as sunlight to a vampire. The existence and the example of a normal life beyond Ashraf 3 was deadly to the Cult, i.e. the Cult and its foreign overlords exerted pressure on the Albanian government to dismantle ASILA or at least to neutralize it. From July 2021 every trick in the book was tried against ASILA. A search warrant for premises of NGO ASILA as well as the homes and cars of a dozen Iranian members of ASILA was signed by a judge in Tirana. These Iranian dissidents were questioned for several hours by the “Tonton Macoutes” of the Counter Terrorism directorate of the Albanian State Police. The net result was nil. Police seized no drugs, weapons, explosives, stolen goods, forged papers, etc. The whole operation turned out to be a typical “too much ado for nothing.”

MEK returned to its old ways of violently attacking a book fair in Durres (a book fair supported by the Ministry of Culture and Durres Council) only because ASILA had its modest stall in the book fair. As always, the Rajavi Cult is allergic to books! Representatives of ASILA lodged an official complaint with Durres police and duly sued the Cult members and commanders who attacked the book fair. Unfortunately, perpetrators of such a crime were released within 12 hours after being held in police custody.

By autumn 2022 the activity of ASILA and the flow of defections of inmates from Ashraf 3 Camp increased. Even an insipid and highly unprofessional but official report published by Microsoft slandering the CEO and the Secretary General of ASILA failed to deter ASILA and its members.

Rajavi and her criminal Cult were engulfed in an existential crisis not only by the activity of ASILA but also because of the utter failure of their main and old propaganda tool of regime change in Iran. Deus ex Machina, the quisling segments of the Albanian Police at the service of the Rajavi Cult, infringing Albanian Law locked in the Karreci facility (a closed camp for illegal migrants) six members of ASILA , namely:

Hassan Heyrani, engaged to an Albanian lady; Ali Hajari (father of an Albanian-Iranian daughter); Mehdi Suleimani, engaged to an Albanian lady; Gholamreza Shekari married (religious marriage) to an Albanian lady; Hassan Shahbaz; and Ehsan Bidi. None of them are illegal migrants in Albanian. They came to my country, says the Albanian journalist, as a result of a signed agreement between UNHCR and the Albanian government. All of them enjoy the status of “protected person” according to Annex IV of the Geneva Convention. After a series of written complaints, protests and appeals by ASILA, by their Albanian loved ones and by a lawyer hired by ASILA, a high-ranking Albanian police officer answered in written form that these ASILA members were locked in the Karreci facility due to national security concerns. Such an answer reminded me of the dark days of communism when Albanians were locked in prison for up to 8 years on charges of Agitation and propaganda against the people-s power!!!! A combination of ASILA action, a media campaign and hunger strikes by the inmates forced Albanian police in spite of the Rajavi Cult’s insistence to release Heyrani, the deputy head of ASILA. Yet he was issued with deportation order!

Today

The Albanian government and Premier Rama, behaving like a tin pot dictator at the service of a bloodstained ex-terrorist called The “Hydra” of Manez aka Miriam Rajavi, have scored a lot of “victories” against ASILA .

Namely:

Hassan Heyrani, the deputy head of ASILA, after being deported from Albania, lives in Greece equipped with regular residence papers.

Hassan Heyrani, the deputy head of ASILA

Ehsan Bidi was forcefully sent from the Karreci facility to Tehran Airport through Sabiha Gogcem Airport of Istanbul.

Gholamreza Shekari was released from Karreci facility but was issued with a deportation order. The Rajavi Cult informed Greek police of Mr. Shekari crossing illegally to Greece. He was detained by Greek police. They ruffed him up and kept him in a barbed wire camp for “special” illegal migrants near Gumenica town. Then they expelled him back to Albania. Police locked him up in the Karreci facility and issued a deportation order (30 days limit; point of exit from Albanian territory: Rinas International Airport).

Ali Hajari is still locked in the detention facility. His Albanian lady gave birth to Ali’s daughter while Ali was still locked in the Karreci facility. This act of cruelty was a courtesy of the Rajavi Cult in collusion with quisling segments of Albanian police and politics.

Mehdi Suleimani is still locked in the Karreci facility.

Edona Hunda, an ASILA member and the fiancé of Mr. Suleimani, was targeted by quisling segments of the Albanian police allegedly of being suspected of drug trafficking. Thanks to their shoddy work and extremely unprofessional behavior they left digital footprints of their active collusion with the Rajavi Cult. Proactive questioning methods applied by some policemen failed with the strong-willed lady. She was released in less than 12 hours and the trumped-up charges of drug trafficking went down the drain.

Hassan Shabaz is still locked in the Karreci facility

Moussa Jaberifar was locked in jail in Durres on trumped-up charges of drug trafficking. The judge ordered his release after a couple of months in prison as the “narcotics” trafficked by him resulted to be normal medical drugs bought at a normal chemist’s shop in the outskirts of Tirana. There are still persistent efforts of the Rajavi Cult in collusion with Albanian citizens to return Mr. Jaberifar to prison as he is still technically a defendant in such a “drug case”.

Mahmoud G. Deghan and Malek Bitmashal became victims of well-hatched ingenious plot. An ex-MEK member declared allegedly several ASILA members were in contact with Iranian secret service and even pretended to receive money from such services. The two above mentioned gentlemen though completely innocent got scared because of such baseless allegations and decided to leave Albanian illegally to save themselves of false charges leveled by quisling segments of the Albanian police.

Each of them bought a forged Italian passport and tried to leave Albania for Brindisi in Italy via the Albanian Port of Vlore. Strange enough they bought these passports from an old contact of the Rajavi Cult, the same person who equipped with a forged EU country passport another defector of the Rajavi Cult a couple of years ago. The police in Vlora detained both of them and now the poor fellows are indicted under “possession of forged identification documents” charges, Article 166 of Albanian Criminal Code. If found guilty by a court of law they face 6 months to 3 years jail sentence!

Mohammad Reza, who seems to be the ASILA member, is next target of the Rajavi Cult. Albanian matchmakers are trying hard to engage him to an Albanian woman who was the lover and who also pressed trumped-up charges and sued Bijan Pooladrag, an Iranian defector of the Rajavi Cult. Unfortunately, Mr. Pooladrag received a ten-year sentence on false charges of terrorism by a court in Tirana. It is highly possible and probable that such a woman of liberal behavior will set a similar trap (trumped-up charges and a long stint in prison) for Mohammad Reza, too.

In conclusion, there are 11 members of ASILA association in forced exile, in prison, in the Karreci facility, under court investigation pending a possible prison sentence. All of them without charge or on trumped-up charges! ASILA only has a modest 33 members, so 11 members in trouble means that the Rajavi Cult has managed to neutralize or semi-neutralize one third of the members. Yet ASILA is not dead or moribund.
ASILA is fighting hard and resisting!

By Mohammad Pouladvand

June 19, 2023 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MCN TV interview with Aldo Sollulari, media director of ASILA

The Albanian MCN TV interviewed Aldo Sollulari, the media director of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA). Sollulari, the Albanian journalist and TV host explained how he got to know the Iranian community in Albania including ASILA. He spoke of the needs and the missions of the association.

Sollulari got acquainted with ASILA via a friend of his who is the interpreter of the association. He was emotionally motivated to join ASILA after he learned about its activities and goals. Then, he decided to professionally work with it.

He says about ASIA, “Since two years ago, ASILA has worked to integrate the Iranians in the Albanian society and it still has some needs to fulfill. They are aimed to support Iranians pursuing their demands to achieve better social and economic conditions.”

MCN TV interview with Aldo Sollulari, media director of ASILA

The media director of ASILA also states that these Iranians who have been brought to Albania by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ PMOI) and most of them are isolated in a camp in Manez, do not enjoy democracy.

According to him, “A part of residents of the MEK’s camp in Manez who wanted to be free and to enjoy the democracy they thought they would have in Albania, left the group. They founded their social base in Albania and got adapted to the society by turning their passions to careers.”

As the media director of ASILA, Sollulari defines his duty as aiding ASILA to be promoted in media. He continued to speak of the association’s efforts to create interactions between the two countries, Iran and Albania, in particular in the absence of the Iranian embassy in Tirana.

He believes that the Iranian citizens of Albania has not enjoyed the Albanian democracy as they expected before they left the Cult of Rajavi. “Most of those who left the group say in tears that they were not allowed to call their mothers,” he says.

When Aldo Sollulari speaks about mothers of the MEK members who have been awaiting a phone call from their loved child in the group, he talks about Soraya Abdollahi as saying: “I want to introduce a lady called Mother Soraya who has been out many times through conferences and on televisions in Albania, where he asks with tears in his eyes and he says that I have been missing my son’s scent for 30 years.”

Sollulari compares the MEK with narcotic groups that some of them have declared that communication with family is forbidden. According to this Albanian journalist, the restrictions that the MEK has created against emotional relations has exceeded moral boundaries. Restrictions such as prohibition of marriage and having children.”

He notices the fact that MEK leaders have told lies to certain mothers that their children have died because they do not want to leave the slightest hope in the heart of mothers. About his own motivations to cooperate with ASILA, he says, “I personally want to be the voice of those mothers who live in Iran and cannot come here.”

Criticizing the leaders of the MEK he states, “We live in 2023 and technology has advanced. why do some organizations forbid telephone communication? Mr. Rajavi who is the leader of this group, for those who do not know, has forbidden family relationships.”

Media director of ASILA believes that ASILA has been successful in achieving a part of its objectives to integrate the community it represents into economic and social life in the best way.

June 17, 2023 0 comments

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Ali Hajari was released

The Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) issued a statement as follows:

“Ali Hajari was released”
Mr. Ali Hajri was released unconditionally today, Friday, May 26, 2023. He was detained in the Karrec camp for nearly 9 months, and during all this time, the Albanian government and police never announced the reason for this detention and did not bring any charges against him.

Three other members of ASILA, namely Mr. Gholamreza Shekari, Mr. Mehdi Soleimani and Mr. Hassan Shahbaz, who are currently detained in the Karrec camp like Mr. Hajari without any reason and without mentioning any charges, should also be released immediately and unconditionally.

Ali Hajari at the office of ASILA near his family and friends

ASILA also condemns the illegal deportation of Mr. Ehsan Bidi to Iran, where he is currently in custody and awaiting his trial, and the illegal deportation of Mr. Hassan Heirani to Greece, and also the illegal deportation of Mr. Gholam Reza Shekari to Greece, who later was returned to Albania by the Greek police. ASILA demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the other prisoners of the Karrec camp.

Arresting six members of ASILA without charges from the first day has been illegal and has only served the interests of the terrorist Maryam Rajavi. These arrests caused hundreds of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), who wanted to leave this cult and join ASILA, to be disappointed because of the illegal behavior of the Albanian police.
ASILA members will not fail to try to connect the families with their loved ones who are trapped in the MEK camp in Albania and will try to connect each of them with the outside world and will continue to expose the cultic nature of the MEK.

All members of ASILA congratulate Ali Hajari’s release to his family in Iran, his wife Elista Hajari and their baby Elisa, and all the members of Nejat Society and ASILA.

ASILA, May 26, 2023

May 27, 2023 0 comments

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The question of the Albanians: When will justice come to the Kareç Camp?

Today, on St. George’s Day, the ASILA association distributed brochures to the residents of “May 5” street.
The brochures had such a content that the people who read them understood that many injustices were committed against the 6 Iranians imprisoned in the Kareç camp and are still being committed in the Mujahideen camps.

Injustices such as: closing them due to the interests of the Mujahedin Khalq group, leaving their families, leaving the Albanian territory for Iran where they risk being killed or even leaving them from the bosoms of the families created by them in Europe.

the ASILA association distributed brochures to the residents of “May 5” street.

The brochures were distributed by their own wives and by their Iranian friends.

Many residents of the area who received these brochures confirmed that this was an injustice, and that justice today is politics, some others consoled themselves by wishing the best for these 6 people and that one day soon justice will be served.

But there were also those who did not understand how this so-called democratic group (the mujahedin) did not have any rules that belong to the 21st century.

the ASILA association distributed brochures to the residents of “May 5” street.

Many mothers said that it is impossible for my child to be banned. There is no access to electronic devices in this world of internet and technology. Well, miracles happen in the Mujahedin organization.

Albania Post

May 8, 2023 0 comments

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ASILA members to visit Albanian women’s rights activist

Members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) visited the Albanian human rights activist, Elsa Ballauri.

Elsa Ballauri, the Albanian journalist, activist of human rights, and collector received Iranian and Albanian members of ASILA in her personal museum.

After visiting the museum, Dashamir Mersulli the president of ASILA and a few of Iranian members of the association who are former members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI) had a meeting with Balauri. Ex-members of the MEK revealed facts on violation of human rights inside the MEK’s camp.

Khalil Ansarian and Hamid Atabay spoke of discriminations against female members of the MEK. They criticized Maryam Rajavi for her propaganda about women’s rights while she violates the rights of her own female followers by forcing them to wear hijab.

Bahhauri told ASILA members that the MEK agents had previously tried to buy her support but they did not succeed since she was aware of their dishonest claims about democracy and women’s rights.

https://dla.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/Albani/Asila-Balahuri-202303.mp4

March 26, 2023 0 comments

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ASILA to reveal the true counter-women nature of the Rajavi cult

In recent days, we got to know the names of two famous ladies during the activities of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) in Tirana. Two Albanian women, each of whom has a long track record in political and human rights activities and are still active in these fields.

These two women have appeared many times on television channels inside and outside Albania and have interviewed and commented on various issues. It is interesting that both of them, according to their own statements, were repeatedly referred by the operatives of the Rajavi terrorist cult and happened to know the name of ASILA through this way.

Ms. Elsa Ballauri, a Canadian-Albanian activist and president of the Albanian Human Rights group, who recently had meetings and discussions with ASILA officials, and Ms. Naime Gjongecaj, a women’s rights activist and parliamentary candidate, who participated on the ASILA’s ceremony on the occasion of the international women’s day and also got acquainted with Nejat Society.

These two, who were familiar with the so-called ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, when became aware of the extent of oppression of women within the cultic and anti-family relationships of the MEK, realized the depth of hypocrisy and deception of the Rajavi cult and emphasized that the Albanian society must definitely know that their country is hosting a terrorist cult that, above all, violates the most basic human rights of its own members.

Ms. Elsa Ballauri, President of AHRG:

Ms. Ballauri ‘s meeting with ASILA members

Meeting with Ms. Ballauri at the office of ASILA

Meeting in Ms. Ballauri’s office

Ms. Naime Gjongecaj, candidate for parliament:

Ms. Gjongecaj’s interview with ABC network

Ms. Gjongecaj while speaking at the 8th of March meeting of ASILA in Tirana

Ms. Gjongecaj with Erisa Rahimi from Asila

By Atefeh Nadalian

March 25, 2023 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Red Wednesday and Summer Day celebrated by ex-members of the MEK

Former members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania who are currently members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) celebrated two similar occasions each renowned in Iran and Albania.

Since one of the missions of ASILA is development of cultural interactions between the two countries, the start of Spring is an opportunity for friendship of both cultures. This was the second year that Iranian and Albanian members of ASILA celebrated these occasions together.

ASILA members at the Albanians Dita e Verës (Summer Day) celebration

Every year on March 14, Albanians celebrate Dita e Verës (Summer Day), the country’s largest pagan festival. People celebrate the end of winter, the rebirth of nature, and a rejuvenation of spirit among Albanians.

On the other side of the world, in Iran, Festival of Fire or Red Wednesday (Chaharshanbe Suri) is held on the Last Wednesday of the year (marks the arrival spring). Fire and light hoped for health and happiness through the coming year. It falls on the last Tuesday evening of every Persian calendar year. Iranians come out with friends and family to celebrate and enjoy this occasion.