Efforts to rescue the MEK hostages

Iranian protesters urge Albania to close down camp hosting MKO terrorists

Dozens of Iranian protesters and relatives of members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) have called upon Albanian authorities to shut down a camp that hosts anti-Iran elements and make preparation for the repatriation of their family members.

Demonstrators and members of the independent civil society organization Nejat Society converged outside the Turkish embassy in downtown Tehran, which represents Albania’s interests in the Islamic Republic, and appreciated the latest raids by Albanian police forces on the Ashraf-3 camp in the northwest of the capital Tirana.

They underlined that the camp serves as a place, where malicious plots and cyber attacks are being orchestrated, and various forms of money laundering and human rights abuse are being carried out.

Iranian protesters and relatives of members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) take part in a protest outside the Turkish embassy in Tehran, which represents Albania’s interests in the Islamic Republic, on June 30, 2023. (Photo by Tasnim news agency)

The protesters released a communiqué during the gathering, asking Albanian authorities to shut down the camp and put the notorious ringleaders of the MKO terrorist cult on trial.

The relatives of MKO members also urged the Albanian government not to allow leaders of the cult to use their loved ones as human shields against security forces.

They also asked Albanian officials not to fall into the psychological warfare trap of the MKO and let the terrorists abuse them, as the cult is enormously hated by the entire Iranian nation and even opponents of the Islamic establishment.

“After seven years of supporting the MKO, the Albanian government came to realize that its national security is more significant than anything else,” Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the head of Nejat Society, said at the gathering.

He stated that families of MKO members are calling on Albanian officials to let them visit the Southeastern European country and meet with their loved ones, and to secure their release from the camp.
Albanian police forces raided the Ashraf-3 camp on Thursday morning, more than a week after they stormed the same place over indications of cyber attacks against foreign institutions being orchestrated there.

According to Albanian Daily News, security forces were deployed at the entrance to the camp accommodating MKO members, and controlled all vehicles leaving the site.

The Albania police takes control of the MEK Camp Ashraf 3

On June 20, Albanian authorities raided the camp to seize 150 computer devices linked to terrorist activities.

Albanian Interior Minister Bledi Cuci and the head of the national police, Muhamet Rrumbullaku, said both police officers and MKO terrorists were injured during the raid.

Police in Albania have raided a camp home to the anti-Iran terrorist cult of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO).
Reports suggest that the MKO member killed in the raid was a high-profile commander of the terrorist group named Abdolvahhab Faraji. He was said to be an expert in military engineering operations, and was apparently in charge of technical and engineering activities during an anti-Iran operation by MKO terrorists in July 1988.

Sources have reported that a number of other MKO terrorists are in critical condition after the raid.

MKO members spent many years in Iraq, where they were hosted and armed by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. They sided with Saddam during the 1980-88 war against Iran and then helped him quell uprisings in various parts of the Arab country.

Albania started hosting the terrorists after the group was shunned by the government of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Albanian officials have charged six MKO terrorists over violent clashes with police.
The European country is estimated to have been accommodating some 3,000 members of the terror cult since 2016.

The European Union, Canada, the United States, and Japan had previously listed the MKO as a “terrorist organization”.

In 2012, the group was taken off the US list of terrorist organizations. The EU followed suit, removing the group from its list of terrorist organizations.

The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past decades, killing nearly 17,000 Iranians.

The group throws lavish conferences every year in Paris, with certain American and other Western officials in attendance as guests of honor.

July 3, 2023 0 comments

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Gathering of Nejat Society outside Turkish Embassy

Following the raid by the Albanian Police to Mujahedin-e Khalq’s base in North of Tirana, Nejat Society hold a rally outside the embassy of Turkey which represents Albanian interests. Nejat Society includes families of residents of the MEK’s camp, Ashraf 3, and former members of the group.

The gathering was held to express gratitude to the Albanian government for the action they took to legally investigate the MEK’s headquarters as a potential place for conspiracy, cyber-attack, financial fraud and human rights abuse.
Expressing their gratitude to the Albanian state, families of MEK members who are taken as hostages in the cult-like system of the group, asked the Albanian authorities for the shutdown of Camp Ashraf 3 and the trial of the leaders of the MEK.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, The CEO of Nejat Society spoke in the gathering. “After seven years of supporting the MEK, the Albanian government came to the conclusion that the security of its country is more important,” he said. “What we said from the very first day. Now we should take immediate action to seek our requests.”

He expresses further demands of families of MEK members based on traveling to Albania to visit their loved ones and their release from the group’s isolated camp in Albania. Khodabandeh valued the twenty years of humanitarian activities of Nejat Society members.

A ten-point statement signed by members of the society was read out during the gathering. Families asked the Albanian government to prevent the MEK leaders from using their loved ones as human shields against security forces.
The raid of the Albanian anti-corruption Police to Camp Ashraf 3 on June 23, 2023 was the country’s first action taken to investigate the Cult of Rajavi as a formerly designated terrorist group with a long background of violence and human rights abuse, after near ten years of residence in the Albanian territory.

The gathering was coincident with the official settlement of the Albanian Police inside Ashraf 3 to set up a checkpoint there.

June 30, 2023 0 comments

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Hossein Sabet Rostami’s Cries for help in front of ICRC office

Hossein Sabet Rostami’s brother, Mohammad Mehdi has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin- Khalq for over 40 years.
Hossein attended the sit-in of families of Nejat in front of the ICRC office in Tehran.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/Rostami-Bro-EN-202305.mp4

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June 19, 2023 0 comments

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What Nejat Families want on the Int. Red Cross Day

Members of Nejat Society used the occasion of May 8th, the International Day of Red Cross to call on the world for the release of their loved ones. Families of hostages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) are members of Nejat NGO who have been looking forward to visiting their loved ones in the group, for decades.

Since the establishment of Nejat Society, families have taken numerous actions to attract attention of the world to the humanitarian crisis that members of the Cult of Rajavi are faced with. When the group was in Iraq, families used to travel there to hold sit-ins in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty.

However, they were never allowed by the MEK leaders to visit their loved ones. Through loudspeakers they called the names of their children and asked them to leave the group. This was the slightest chance to show their love to their loved ones who are mentally and physically barred from the outside world by the Rajavis. And this action worked in many cases. Several members of the cult eventually left the group during the next years. Their process of defection from the Cult of Rajavi had started after they had heard their names cried by their suffering family members through loudspeakers.

Today, far from the Iranian border, members of the MEK are still isolated in the group’s headquarters called Ashraf 3, in Manez, a village in north of the Albanian capital, Tirana. Families are not granted visa to travel to Albania due to the group’s corrupted links in the Albanian government. Thus, they must use every opportunity to make the international human rights bodies hear their voice for help.

Nejat families sit in ,in front of the ICRC office in Tehran

Yesterday’s sit-in by the heart-broken parents and grieving brothers and sisters of the MEK hostages in front of the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tehran was another step forward. They demanded the authorities to step in and aid them to contact and visit their beloved family members taken as hostages by the MEK leaders.

ASILA members’ gathering in front of the ICRC office of Tirana

Nejat Society has a complement in Albania. ASILA, the Association for the support of Iranians Living in Albania is somehow a branch of Nejat in Albania. ASILA was established by some of the Albanian citizens and former members of the MEK who previously left the group in Albania. On May, 8th, 2023, they also gathered in front of the ICRC’s office in Tirana.

Carrying placards and pictures of their loved ones and their friends, members of Nejat and ASILA asked the authorities of the ICRC to take immediate action to stop violation of human rights against members of the MEK, hostages of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.

Their demands include the followings:
They should be granted the right to contact and visit their loved ones in the MEK.
The right of MEK members to take asylum should be observed by the Albanian government.
The MEK leaders should be compelled to stop violating the human rights of their members.

May 10, 2023 0 comments

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Parents of MKO members ask Red Cross to help them see loved ones

World Red Cross Day is observed every year on May 8. A number of parents of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist group have taken the opportunity to attract attentions to the fact that they have not been able to visit their loved ones for a very long time. They held a sit-in in front of the ICRC office in Tehran demanding the International Committee of the Red Cross to step in.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/PressTV/Presstv-Fa-RC-20230508.mp4

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The demanding gathering of the families of Nejat Society

Tomorrow, Monday, May 8th, on the occasion of the ICRC Day, considering the responsibility and role and position of this international organization, the families of Nejat Society in Tehran will hold a rally in front of the main headquarters of the ICRC.

The families hope to be able to convey their rightful and legal requests for follow-up to this institution and other international organizations as well as the media and the world public opinion.

The demanding gathering of the families of Nejat Society on the day of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC in Tehran

Simultaneously with this program, which will start at 14:00 Iran time, the former members of the Rajavi terrorist cult, members of ASILA in Albania, will also hold a similar rally in solidarity with the families of Nejat Society in front of the ICRC headquarters in Tirana.

The news of the gathering and the text of the statement and request of the families will be announced as soon as possible after the program is implemented.

May 7, 2023 0 comments

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Years of struggle by families of MEK hostages

Nejat Society was established as a non-governmental organization two decades ago. As members of Nejat NGO, families of hostages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) took numerous actions in order to release their loved ones from the cult-like terrorist group of Massoud Rajavi.

Traveling to Iraq for picketing in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf was one of the actions taken by the families. The following video shows mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who are crying the names of their loved ones over the walls of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, during the winter of 2010.

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Some of the hostages whose names are called left the group through the next years, mostly after the group was relocated in Albania. They might have heard the heart-breaking cries of their loved ones through loudspeakers over the gates of Ashraf. The mental bars around their minds might have been broken on those very days.

Since its relocation in Albania, the MEK has been downsized due to the increasing defections but there are still a few thousand people who are mentally and physically barred by the Cult of Rajavi. Now, the group’s new headquarters, Ashraf 3, is far away from the Iranian border. For families, traveling to Albania is a big challenge because the Albanian government does not grant visa to the Iranians. The reason is not rational but understandable.

As wealthy bribe payers, the MEK agents in the Albanian government make efforts to prevent families to come to Albania which is a semi democratic country in the soil of democratic Europe.
As a matter of fact, families of the MEK’s hostages never give up. They take actions, they write letters to human rights bodies; they send public messages to their loved ones in Ashraf 3 because they hope that the mental bars will smash someday and their beloved children will be determined to leave the Maryam Rajavi’s cult.

May 2, 2023 0 comments

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Movie Premier for the documentary “From Tirana to Tehran”

The first public presentation of the documentary, “From Tirana to Tehran”, was held on Thursday, November 15th.
From Tehran to Tirana presents an account on the grieves of families of those held as hostages in the camp of the Mujahedin-e Khalq in Tirana, Albania. The movie premier was held by Nejat Society in cultural center of Water and Sewage Organization of Tehran where a number of defectors of the MEK and families of current members of the group gathered together. The event was covered by several journalists from news media.

The documentary has been produced by Press TV in order to enlighten public opinion about double standards of the West regarding human rights and to bring the voice of the suffering families to the world.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh; the CEO of Nejat Society

The opening speech was delivered by the CEO of Nejat Society, Ebrahim Khodabandeh. “From Tirana to Tehran depicts the stories of defectors of the MEK,” he stated. “I believe that today it is vital to know about the group which has an active role in the chaos of protests. Members of the group target the Iranians’ Psychological security by the fake news they launch with their fake accounts.”

Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh

A heart-broken mother

Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh who have been looking forward to contacting his son, hijacked by the MEK addressed the audience: “Our beloved children are in captivity of the destructive cult of Rajavi and the monstrous Mujahedin. We, mothers, picketed in Iraq for 4 years only to hug our beloved children but they did not allow us.”
Expressing pleasure for those who have managed to escape the group in recent years she said: “My son has been taken as a hostage in the MEK for 20 years. I and other families have written a large number of letters to human rights organizations but there has been no response. However, we are still standing firmly calling for the release of our loved ones.”

Fatemeh Hosseini, the mother of Hassan Heirani, director of ASILA

A mother waiting for traveling to Albania

Fatemeh Hosseini, the mother of Hassan Heirani, director of the Association for the Support of Iranian Living in Albania (ASILA), spoke of her son: “My son was in the prison of the MEK for 15 years. Now that he has defected the group, he has been labeled by the group as terrorist! We requested the Albanian government for visa but they did not grant us. MyY son has founded ASILA in Tirana to help release other members of the group but the group makes efforts to disrupt their activities.”

A sister crying with one eye and laughing with the other

Narges Beheshti who had two brothers imprisoned in the MEK also addressed the meeting: “My two brothers were recruited by the MEK in 2001. My older brother was killed in the MEK in 2011 and my other brother Milad defected the group two years ago and he is now a member of ASILA.” Narges recalls the days she was picketing in front of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, by the side of other families. Expressing hope for the release of all captives of the MEK she said, “Despite all economical issues, we raise funds to send to Albania to support ASILA.”

A suffering mother to address Maryam Rajavi

Once she was up on the stage to take photos, Mother Saadat whose three children are in the MEK told the audience: “I have not seen my children for 35 years. I raised them with difficulties and now I miss them a lot. They do not write letters and they do not call me. I am addressing Maryam Rajavi. Do you believe in another Islam? Are you allowed to get married with two husbands but our children are deprived from marrying and visiting their parents? I am an old heart-broken mother. I might pass away and never see my children.”

Erisa Rahimi one of the Albanian members of ASILA

ASILA, a light of hope for families

Addressing the event from Albania, Erisa Rahimi one of the Albanian members of ASILA, spoke via a video connection. She is the wife of the MEK defector, Sarfaraz Rahimi. “Rajavi has built a hell here,” she said, “We appreciate your support for ASILA. You are in a difficult situation but I am sure your children will be liberated from this hell someday.”

Bakhsh Ali Alizadeh

Bakhsh Ali Alizadeh a defector of the group also delivered a speech. “I lost 27 years of my life in the MEK,” he said. “I finally could manage to escape the group in Albania and to return home to join my family. It is the MEK evil tactic to call all defectors as traitors. If the MEK members speak of their families, they will be severely punished. 200 members have demanded to leave the group. Instead, they have been faced with punishments and they are being held in isolated units, detached from others. Due to the oppressive atmosphere ruling the group so many people have so far committed suicide.
Hassan Heirani the executive director of Asila spoke to the families via a video connection too. He emphasized that Rajavi is terrified by ASILA. “The Cult of Rajavi makes efforts to impose pressure on us. This is while our association is a legal establishment founded by Iranian defectors of the group and some Albanian citizens. They want to break our resistance.”

families signed a petition to ask the Albanian authorities to aid them release their beloved ones imprisoned in the MEK

An appeal to Albanian government

At the end of the meeting, families signed a petition to ask the Albanian authorities to aid them release their beloved ones imprisoned in the MEK, Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality. A part of the petition reads: “We ask the Albanian state to answer the numerous questions asked by the families. We are determined to rescue all captives of the Cult of Rajavi. Voicing our support for the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Tirana, we hope your government that claims for freedom and democracy ends the illegal imprisonment of our loved ones.”
“From Tirana to Tehran” was played for the audience in the hall. It will be first published publicly on Press TV on Tuesday, November 22nd, at 7pm.

November 19, 2022 0 comments

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Why don’t leaders of the Cult of Rajavi respond to our requests?

Mohammad Mehdi Sabet Rostami is from Behshahr, a town in the North of Iran. He was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war in 1982 when he was taken as a prisoner of war by Iraqi forces. He was in Iraqi POW camps until 1988. He used to write letters to his family in Iran during those six years.

“We had no news of Mohammad Mehdi from 1988 to 2003,” his brother Hossein Sabet Rostami says. “In 2003, some defectors of the group told us that Mohammad Mehdi was in the Mujahedin Khalq (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi).”

Mohammad Mehdi Sabet Rostami family

Mohammad Mehdi had been deceived to move to Camp Ashraf by the MEK recruiters who used to commute the POW camps of Iraq to recruit members. The MEK was the private army of Saddam Hussein before his collapse by the American invasion.

The Sabet Rostami family traveled to Iraq to visit Mohammad Mehdi at Camp Ashraf, in 2004. “We waited the whole day to get permission to meet my brother,” Hossein says. “Finally, we were only allowed to visit him for half an hour under the strict supervision of other members and commanders of the group.”

Since then, Hossein and his parents have not been able to meet Mohammad Mehdi. “In 2010 we went to Camp Ashraf, Iraq three times,” Hossein says. “The camp authorities did not allow us to visit my brother. This was the right of my parents to see their son but they were deprived of their right.”

the Sabet Rostami family traveled to Iraq to visit Mohammad Mehdi at Camp Ashraf, in 2004

Hossein Sabet Rostami and his parents have taken a lot of actions in order to find a way to meet Mohammad Mehdi. They have written several letters to the Albanian authorities since the group has been relocated in Albania. They frequently send text and video massages addressing their beloved one who is a hostage in the Cult of Rajavi in Albania as well as the leaders of the cult. Nejat Society publishes the messages in the hope that Mohammad Mehdi might see them sometime.

“Why can’t my brother choose for his own life?” Hossein wonders in his last message. “Why can’t he call his family? Why don’t leaders of the Cult of Rajavi respond to our requests? My elderly parents are sick and tired of waiting for the day they will be able to see their beloved son in the free world after forty years of imprisonment.”

October 4, 2021 0 comments

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The Rajavis are terrified of a meeting between me and you

Hajar Yaqubi was never a political person but she has been in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) for near four decades. “She fell in the trap of the MEK just because her husband was a sympathizer of the group,” Mohammad Yaqubi, Hajar’s brother says.

Hajar is from Neka, Mazandaran, Iran but she has not seen her hometown for forty years. “Our village has become modern and more beautiful than the past,” Mohammad says. “I know that my sister has no access to the Internet otherwise she would be able to see its pictures on the net.”

Mohammad sends open letters addressing his sister, to Nejat Society, from time to time. “Whenever I look at the photos of you, I wonder what I should do to be able to meet you,” Mohammad writes to Hajar in his last message published on the website of Nejat Society.

Hajar’s brother has taken various actions in order to visit his beloved sister. He traveled to Iraq several times when the MEK was located there. Mohammad picketed in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty holding a placard with the name of his siter on it, calling her to leave the MEK and get back to the family.
Mohammad Yaqubi has also written several letters to the international human rights bodies and the Albanian authorities calling for their aid to families of those who are taken as hostages by the leaders of the MEK.

“The Rajavis are terrified of a meeting between me and you,” Mohammad writes to Hajar in his recent open letter. “They are terrified that you get aware of what is going on around you and you leave the group.”

He continues, “My lovely sister! I know that you think of us in your privacy and this would be a good turning point for you to get determined to leave the group and begin a new life. Please contact us. Hearing your voice will be so cheering for me and the family.”

October 3, 2021 0 comments

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