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.
Fatemeh Mohabati attended the sit-in in front of the office of the International Committee of Red Cross in Tehran. She is the mother of Azadeh Saboor, a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI). Fatemeh Mohabati has not seen her daughter for over 20 years.
Azadeh was deceived to join the MEK in Iraq when she was a young newly married girl. Her husband left the group a few years later but Azadeh was coerced to stay. Her mother has taken different actions in order to find a way to visit or even contact her. Her cries for help in front of the ICRC office is heart-breaking.
Roghayeh Farazian, mother of Fereidoon Nedayee attended the sit-in of families of Nejat Society in front of the office of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in Tehran.
She has been looking forward to visiting her son for about 4 decades. The years of separation from her beloved son has left her with grieves and pains. Fereidoon was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces when he was a soldier of the Iranian army fighting in Iran-Iraq war.
The MEK recruiters deceived him to join the group, and this was the start of a long-term break-up from his family. Roghayeh Farazian’s cries for help in front of the ICRC office is very distressing.
Mahin Habibi attended the sit-in of families of Nejat Society in front of the office of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in Tehran.
She is the mother of Parvaneh Rabiee, a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq. She has not met and even contacted her daughter for over forty years. The years of separation from her beloved daughter has left her with grieves and pains.
As a young girl, Parvaneh had immigrated to Germany where she was taken as a hostage by the MEK recruiters. Leaders of the MEK do not allow Parvaneh to contact her mother because they consider family as the enemy of their cult-like organization.
Listen to the heartbroken mother of Parvaneh.
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
Nejat families sit in ,in front of the ICRC office in Tehran
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
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.
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.
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Gisoo Misha Ahmadi
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.
Mosayeb Rashidi was taken as a war prisoner in 1980. He was a young newly married soldier of the Iranian army. Iraqi Baath forces trapped him in Iran-Iraq border in the early months of the war. He was in Saddam Hussein’s notorious POW camps for 9 years.
Mosayeb’s wife was pregnant when he was taken as a POW. Their daughter was born a few weeks later and eventually she grew up in the absence of his father. The little girl turned into an adult, got married and had children.
Mosayeb Mazaheri and other POW’s at the Baath Regime prisoners’ camp
She has not seen her father since her birth. In 1989, Mosayeb was recruited –in better words was taken as a hostage– by the agents of the Mujahedin-e Khalq who collaborated with Iraqi officers in POW camps.
Since then, Mosayeb’s family have not been able to contact or visit him. When the group was in Iraq, they traveled to Iraq and picketed across the gates of the MEK camps, asking for permission to visit their beloved Mosayeb but the leaders of the Cult of Rajavi did not allow them to visit him and did not let Mosayeb know that his family had come to visit him.
He is now in the MEK’s camp Ashraf 3 in Albania, and he is still isolated from the outside world, having no access to his family, his daughter and his little grandson.
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.
Amin Asadan was a young guy from North of Iran who was kidnapped by the agents of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI) . Amin is one of the hundreds young men who were taken as hostages by the MEK recruiters in Turkey.
Amin has not been allowed to contact and visit his family during the 24 years of membership (in better words, imprisonment) in Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality. He has been deprived from access to the outside world in both headquarters of the group in Iraq and Albania.
The mother of Amin Asadan
Back in Iran, Amin Asadan’s family took actions in order to visit their beloved son but they did not succeed. “Amin was such a passionate young hardworking man seeking an ethical life,” Amin’s brother, Amir Asadan says. “In the early 2000s, he went to Turkey in order to find a better job. The whole family were happy with his decision, but we did not know that he would be a victim of Rajavi’s mafia. They had deceived him to join the MEK in Iraq under the promise of transferring him to Europe.”
This was the U-turn in Amin’s life. The start of a long-term separation from his family. “He has been taken as a hostage by Rajavi and he has not contacted us for 24 years,” his brother adds.
Amin’s mother sends a message to his beloved son in the hope that he will see it sometime:
Dear Amin. I miss you a lot. I am looking forward to your return. Yor father passed away and let me alone over a decade ago. My only hope is that you get back home before I die.
My beloved Amin. I need to have you more than any time. I insist you to call me, to return home so that I could hug you, kiss you and live by your side.