ASILA Association

Mohammad Reza Seddigh’s letter to Albanian Prime Minister

Dear Mr. Edi Rama, the Honorable Prime Minister of Albania
Six of our friends have been imprisoned in the isolated Karrec detention center since last month. Their condition has not been addressed and no explanation has been made about the reason of their detention. No answer has been given to their families, to the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) and to its attorney.

Dear sir,
We are a group of human beings who suffered a lot in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ the Cult of Rajavi). I myself was imprisoned in the Cult of Rajavi for 20 years. I defected Rajavi’s prison in the hope of living freely in your country. Today I am free but six of my friends are unfortunately in an isolated camp. This is not fair to treat refugees like this in spite of the nice and compassionate character of Albanians.
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Albania is my second country. I request you not to allow a bad memory of your beautiful country to remain in my mind.

Best regards,
Mohammad Reza Seddigh, member of ASILA

Mohammad Reza Seddigh

December 14, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Mansour Barahooei letter to Albanian Prime Minister

The honorable Prime Minister of Albania, Mr. Edi Rama,
I am Mansour Barahooei and I have lived in your country and enjoyed the love and kindness of your nation for seven years. God bless you and your people.

It is unfortunate that six of my friends who are members of the Association for the Support of Iranians living in Albanian (ASILA), have been taken to Karreç Detention Center by the Police of your country while they have not committed any crime. We and their families are concerned over their conditions.

Dear sir,
I demand you to take immediate action in order to release our friends. I am sure that you will give us a positive reply and make me, my friends in ASILA and the families of my detained friends happy.
Wishing you and the Albanian nation best wishes, I sincerely congratulate you and the people of your country on the year 2023 in advance.

Yours Truly,
Mansour Barahooei – Member of ASILA

Mansur Barahooei

December 14, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Musa Damroodi’s letter to Albanian Prime Minister

The honorable Albanian Prime Minister,
I am Musa Damroodi and I declare my support for six of my friends who are members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA). My friends have not committed any illegal act in the Albanian territory. Their only fault is that they have revealed the truth about the cult of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). That’s it!
Therefore, the MEK is not able to tolerate the presence of ASILA in Albania. It cannot stand its defectors living a normal life in free world because it is anti-freedom ad anti-family. The MEK conspires against us constantly.

I am not scared of Rajavi’s nonsenses against us. That’s enough for me to be in prison. I was in Saddam Hussein’s POW’s camp for 4 years and I was under the mental, psychological and physical pressure in the cult of Rajavi for 29 years. I was not allowed to contact my family in all those 29 years of imprisonment in the MEK.
I ask the respectable Albanian government to free my friends as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Musa Damroodi – Member of ASILA

Musa Damroodi

December 13, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Sarfaraz Rahimi letter to the Albanian Prime Minister and Human Rights bodies

In the name of human rights
The honorable Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama,
My name is Sarfaraz Rahimi, a member of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA). I am an Iranian but I have lived in the mother land of my wife Erisa Rahimi and my son Ermolindo for seven years. I have seen nothing but love and compassion from the Albanian people.

Unfortunately, as members of ASILA , we have a lot of untold painful stories that we should tell the world. While I am writing this letter, six of my friends are detained in the detention center in Karreç. They have not committed any crime to violate the Albanian laws.

Please take in it to consideration that we have been relocated in Albania under the agreement between the Albanian government, the US government and the UN High Commissioner of Refugees, in order to enjoy a normal life, away from violence and discrimination but unluckily we have faced and witnessed many adversities because we have just revealed the true nature of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
Is it a crime to speak of our past? If it is so, what happens to freedom of expression?

Sincerely yours,
Sarfaraz Rahimi

CC to
Albanian President
Speaker of the Parliament of Albania
President of the European Parliament
Head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Sarfaraz Rahimi

December 12, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Khalil Ansarian’s open letter to UNHCR and Albanian Prime Minister

The honorable President of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Albania,
The honorable Albanian Prime Minister, Mr. Edi Rama,

I am Khalil Ansarian a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). I was relocated in Albania by the UNHCR, in 2016 and I left the MEK’s camp in Manez, in 2017. The Albanian government approved us a humanitarian status based on which we are granted annual residence permit every year.

Khalil Ansarian

On November 8th, 2022, the Albanian Immigration and border department contacted some of my friends, Hassan Heirani, Ali Hajari, Gholamreza Shekari, Mehdi Soleimani and Hassan Shahbaz and summoned them to the department where they were told that they had entered Albania illegally. This is while residence permits of these people have been issued by the very department and they have not been expired yet.

Dear sir,
My friends are detained in the illegal refugees detention center under the flag of UNHCR! Four of them are married to Albanian ladies. My detained friends have gone on hunger strike. This is their right to know why they have been arrested. No accusation has been expressed to them and the Police does not gi8ve any answer to our repeated appeals.

Dear sirs,
I request you to take proper action for the case of my friends preventing their rights to be violated.

Best Regards
Khalil Ansarian

December 12, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Hassan Shahbazi to continue hunger strike for the seventh day

Hassan Shahbazi, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq continues his hunger strike under detention in Albania. He did not end the hunger strike to protest his unjustified detention and the prohibition of contacting his family.

Shahbazi is one of the six members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) who have been detained by the Albanian immigration and border police in Karrec detention center, in north of Tirana.

Hassan Shahbazi on hunger strike

In a short message written by Hassan Shahbaz and published by ASILA, he states, “I have not had any contact with my family, particularly my sick mother, for over thirty days so I will keep on hunger strike until I receive an answer from the Albanian immigration Police.”

The other detained members who had also gone on hunger strike ended the strike after the authorities of the camp allowed them to visit their Albanian wives, following the actions taken by their lawyer.

December 11, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

ASILA detainees end hunger strike after police allowed family visit

Four detained members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania ended their hunger strike.

Hassan Heirani, Gholamreza Shekari, Ali Hajari and Mehdi Soleimani had gone on a hunger strike to protest their unlawful detention in Karrec camp.

ASILA members on hunger strike

According to the statement made by ASILA, these four people ended their strike after the immigration and border Police of Albania permitted them to visit their Albanian wives. However, they warned the Albanian authorities that they will resume their hunger strike if their awkward detention keeps on.

Six members of ASILA association including Ehsan Bidi and Hassan Shahbaz have been detained by the illegal refugee detention center in Karrec since last month despite they are legal refugees owning residence permit in Albania. Hassan Shahbaz is still on hunger strike for the 7th day because he has not been allowed to contact his family outside Albania for over 30 days.

These six men are former members of the Mujahedin Khalq who defected the cult-like system of the group after they were relocated in Albania. The MEK commanders are frustrated by the activities of ASILA which aids the defectors of the group to get deradicalized and to begin a new life in the Albanian community. Thus, they make efforts to demonize ASILA members pushing them under the pressure of the Albanian government.

December 10, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Second Day of Hunger Strike by detained ASILA members

The detained members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) maintain hunger strike for the second day. Having been isolated in the detention center of Albanian foreign nationals, they protest their illegal detention by going on hunger strike.

Hassan Heyrani, Mehdi Soleimani, Ali Hajari, Hassan Shahbaz, and Gholamreza Shekari have been detained in Camp Kareç, a migrant detention center in north of Tirana, since last month, despite having legal residence permit.

Second day of ASILA members hunger strike

These five former members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq who enjoy legal residence permit in the Albanian territory protest their detention without being given an opportunity to be heard promptly by a judicial or other authority. They have been detained for a month even though they have not been convicted of a crime.

December 7, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

ASILA members on hunger strike to protest illegal detention

The 5 people who are former members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization and current members of the Association for the support of Iranians living in Albania(ASILA), staged hunger strike to protest their unreasoned detention.

Hassan Heyrani, Mehdi Soleimani, Ali Hajari, Hassan Shahbaz, and Gholamreza Shekari have been kept in isolation in a camp in Kareç, the center for illegal immigrants, without any reason to be mentioned by the Albanian immigration Police.

ASILA representative says these individuals enjoy regular residence permits.
Members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania held a demonstration outside the Albanian immigration and border Police in Tirana to protest against the arrest of six members of the association on Thursday, December 1st.

Hassan Heirani

Ali Hajari

Hassan Shahbazi

Gholamreza Shekari

Mehdi Soleimani

December 6, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

ASILA’s statement calls for release of the detained members

Members of the Association for the support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) delivered a statement by the end of their protest in front of the Albanian immigration and border Police.

Hamid Atabay read a statement at the end of the rally

On Thursday December 1st, the Iranian and Albanian members of ASILA protested against detention of six members of the association, Hassan Heyrani, Mehdi Soleimani, Ehsan Bidi, Hassan Shahbaz, Gholamreza Shekari and Ali Hajari by the Albanian immigration and border Police in Kareç detention centre, in north of Tirana.
Hamid Atabay the most recent defector of the Mujahedin Khalq who immediately joined ASILA after his defection read a statement at the end of the rally. The statement proclaims:

“We, members of ASILA gathered together to ask the Albanian government to release our friends. We are peaceful people who want a normal life. We are neither interested in political activities, nor in religious activities.
The United Nations and the US government relocated us in Albania to save our lives. The Albanian authorities and political parties all agreed that we had been transferred to a democratic country. Now, what is the matter that they have detained 6 of our friends without explanation of charges and Judicial enlightenment?

We demand the Albanian government and political parties to release our friends and to relieve their families who are concerned about them.”

December 5, 2022 0 comment

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