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Albania: Radicalized MEK member convicted for attempted rape of 11-year-old boy

Nejat SocietyOctober 13, 20160133 views

An Iranian man, Mousa Jaberifard, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Court of Tirana, Albania after being convicted for the offense of sexual harassment and attempted rape of a minor. He was arrested in March this year after the parents of an 11-year-old boy called the police. Jaberifard arrived in Albania in 2014 as one of the Mojahedin Khalq/MKO/MEK members from Iraq. A local family became friends with him. The family’s 11-year-old son told police …

US Resettles Last MEK Members in Albania

Nejat SocietySeptember 19, 20160106 views

The MEK helped Hussein’s forces suppress Shiite and Kurdish uprisings after the 1991 Gulf War. It also attempted an attack against the Iranian mission to the United Nations in 1992 and was thought to be responsible for attacks on Iranian officials in the 1990s. The State Department designated it a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997.

Albanian Paper: Last of the Mojahedin Khalq arrived to Albania – USA thanks Albania

Nejat SocietySeptember 11, 20160174 views

Yesterday the last 280 Mojahedin/MKO/MEK/PMOI members from Camp Liberty, Iraq, arrived in Albania. Senator McCain welcomed the completion of the mission of transferring the Mojahedin, and thanked the Albanian government. “In 2003, the United States made a commitment to protect thousands of members of the Iranian dissident organization. Today marks the culmination of this commitment with the safe and successful relocation of all these Iranian …

Last remnants of anti-Iran MKO terrorists relocated from Iraq to Albania

Nejat SocietySeptember 11, 20160142 views

“The international community has now successfully achieved the relocation of all Camp Hurriya residents from Iraq to third countries,” said William Spindler, the spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday.Back on August 25, another 155 members of the group, including a number of its senior leaders,….

Final group of Iranian dissidents leaves Iraq camp

Nejat SocietySeptember 10, 20160130 views

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau thanked the governments of Albania and Iraq.“We are grateful to the Government of Iraq for facilitating the departure of the MEK/MKO/PMOI. And we are specially appreciative of the extraordinary efforts of the Albanian Government,…

Mojahedin Khalq finally expelled from Iraq

Nejat SocietySeptember 10, 20160131 views

Under a deal brokered by the United States and the United Nations refugee agency, almost 2,000 dissident Iranians have been resettled in nearly a dozen European countries since the start of 2016. Until a few years ago, PMOI, also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organisation (MKO), was listed as a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union. The group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s war with Iran in the 1980s but …

37 more Camp Liberty residents left Iraq

Nejat SocietySeptember 5, 20160122 views

A group of 35 MKO/MEK/PMOI members residing in Camp Liberty, Iraq transferred to Albania during the last week, Neday-e Haghighat Website reported.In addition, two Camp residents relocated in Canada.The names are as follows: Hasan Sanaei, Behrouz Kazemi Aghcheh Kohl, Aliakbar Ghaffari, Morteza Khalili…

US charter flight transferred 155 Mojahedin Khalq terror commanders to Albania

Nejat SocietyAugust 29, 20160236 views

At least 155 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), including a number of the group’s senior leaders, have reportedly fled Iraq to Albania. A US passenger plane transferred the MKO/MEK/PMOI terrorists, who had been holed up in Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, early on Thursday,….

More wanted MKO terrorists fly to Albania

Nejat SocietyAugust 28, 20160537 views

These two groups included several high-ranking members of the group[MKO/MEK/PMOI] who are notoriously known for their inhuman attitude against low-ranking members taken as hostages in the cult. These folks have been under the arrest warrant issued by Iraqi government..Some 600 rank and file members of the MKO group who are taken as hostages by the Cult…

155 Camp Liberty residents left Iraq to Albania

Nejat SocietyAugust 23, 20160337 views

A group of 155 Mujahedin-e Khalq members residing in Camp Liberty, Iraq flied to Tirana, Albania. The members transferred on Wednesday and Thursday, August 17th and 18th, Neday-e Haghighat Website reported. Based on the reports during August, 676 residents of Camp Liberty (TTL) transferred to Albania.