In a video clip, Ms Baqaei, sends a message to her son Mohammad Baqaei, who is being held in the camp of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) in Albania.
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In her message, Ms Baqaei hopes that her son is safe and sound. She says that she and Mohammad’s sister Marzieh, miss him very much after having no news of him for more than 30 years and begs for her son to be allowed to have at least one call, just to let them know that he is alright.
In a video clip, Mr Ahmad Rezaei, sends a message to his borther Hajjat Rezaei, who is being held in the camp of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) in Albania.
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In his message, Mr Rezaei hopes that his brother is safe and sound. He says that he misses his brother after having no news for more than 30 years and begs for his brother to be allowed to have at list one call, just to let him know that he is alright.
Khuzestani families write a letter to Albanian PM, expressing concern over increase of deaths amongst
the MEK members in the country
The text of the letter to Edi Rama is as follows:
Mr Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania
We respectfully wish to inform you that through the websites of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), we learned about the death of two members of this group from Khuzestan province (southwestern Iran) on Saturday, named Ms Shahin Qassemi and Mr Massoud Nasiri, from the city of Masjed-e Soleiman, who were based in MEK camp. We are deeply sorry and we are worried about the situation of other members.
Your Excellency
The announcement of the passing away of MEK members in recent months without announcing the cause of death, especially in the context of the outbreak of coronavirus, has left the families intensely concerned. Reports from the medical staff at Mother Teresa Hospital in Albania indicate that at least three Iranian nationals have been hospitalized and at least one of them have died, possibly due to coronavirus. The Albanian branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern about the lack of a permit to enter the MEK camp and observe the situation of the situation there, raising concerns about the health of our relatives at the camp.
Who is responsible for these suspicious deaths? In this regard, who should announce the cause of these deaths? Why aren’t their families informed when members become ill so that they can think of a solution before they die? We, the Khuzestani families of the MEK members based in Albania, offer our condolences and sympathy to the families of these victims, and ask you, as the executive authority of the Albanian government and directly responsible for MEK members in your country, based on human duty and sense of responsibility for members’ health. Please try to end this sad tragedy of the daily death of members in your country and make the MEK officials and Maryam Rajavi, the leader of this group, accountable for the concerns of families to save the lives of their loved ones and let them to meet with the relatives to find out about their situation.
We demand that the perpetrators of negligence and indifference to the health of our loved ones be identified in any situation and in any position, and you, of course, will be held responsible as the Prime Minister of the host government.
With respect
Khuzestani families of MEK members in Albania
Transcript:
delegation-albania@eeas.europa.eu
ccpr@ohchr.org
Nejat Society, in solidarity with the families of the captive members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania, held a nationwide online gathering with the participation of a number of provincial representatives and the presence of some families on Thursday, July 16, 2020.
The online gathering began at 10:30 a.m. and lasted for three and a half hours and was broadcast live on the Nejat NGO site. A limited number of families from a total of 20 provinces were able to speak on the program and convey their messages on behalf of all families. A number of provinces were unable to connect and participate in the gathering due to shortage of time.
First, Ebrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of Nejat Society, explained the recent activities of the families and the society. He thanked and appreciated the activists of the society in all provinces, as well as the families who have always supported them. He then reported on some of the activities of Nejat Society and the families.
He said that with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, families’ concerns about the situation of their relatives in the remote and isolated MEK camp in Albania had increased, and they were rightly worried about the health of their loved ones. This prompted them to write letters to the World Health Organization and Albanian officials, as well as international authorities, demanding to be in contact with their loved ones.
Khodabandeh also referred to the petition by families, asking the Albanian Prime Minister, as the person in charge of the MEK, to remove obstacles to meeting with members of the MEK, or at least to establish phone/video calls with families on an ongoing basis.
This petition attracted nearly 11,500 signatures from families, relatives, friends and acquaintances of members of the Rajavi cult from all over the world, who wanted nothing more than connection with their relations in the MEK camp in Albania.
Khodabandeh then referred to the Rajavi cult’s response, saying that the Rajavi response to the request, like all destructive cults, was base obscenity, slander and insult. He cited the example of a mother who has not heard the voice of her son – who had one day joined the MEK for some reason – for more than 30 years. He explained that for years this mother has been writing in various forms and by letter to whoever it occurred to her that she could, and that she had asked only for a call from her son. But after all this, the Rajavi cult brought the son to their television, and instead of a few kind words that would make his mother happy, the son started swearing at his mother and called her a mercenary, terrorist and even a”so-called mother.”
The CEO of the Nejat Society said that the MEK and Maryam Rajavi can shout for democracy, freedom, human rights, social justice, etc. from morning to night, and hold regular conferences and seminars, costing millions of dollars and bring war mongering American politicians to the stage, but in practice even cannot allow a kind word from the son of an elderly mother who is struggling with various diseases and finds herself in the last days of her life so that her only wish is to hear the voice of her child.
Khodabandeh concluded that all those slogans about defending the freedom and rights of the people, in practice start with these families, and when the MEK members do this to their families and when also MEK leaders do not tolerate the slightest word of dissent, it is clear what model of democracy and human rights they promise.
The program was broadcast live from the Nejat NGO site, and at the same time it was possible to post comments and log in to the chat system, where many families introduced themselves and wrote their messages. Their loving messages encourage the activists of Nejat Society.
The families stated that they had only one humanitarian demand and asked what was wrong with an organization that could connect 2,000 points to have a video chat but is unable to connect one simple video link for members to contact their family to make them happy? Aren’t these families among the people?
One of the interesting things that one of the families said was that while his relative was held captive by Saddam Hussein in an Iraqi POW camp, his letters kept arriving, informing his family of his condition, but after he was handed over to the MEK, there were no more letters and no further connection.
In his speech, Khodabandeh referred to the Rajavi cult’s excuses for preventing its members from visiting their families, and said that the organization used the excuse of the danger of coronavirus to prevent the visits. He asked if the officials of the organization do not meet or travel? In fact, he said, they are constantly traveling between France, Italy and Albania. Don’t they have a tight group life in a closed camp?
He continued that another excuse the Rajavi cult uses is ‘security threats’. They should be asked what security threats elderly parents can pose to the MEK in Albania. The ‘security threat’ has always been an excuse to separate a person from the family in the Rajavi cult from the beginning.
Regarding preventing members from communicating with their families, the CEO of the Nejat Society explained that this goes back to the cultic nature of the MEK. Cults not only coerce members to sever contact with their family, they also induce the member to hate and fear their family and have no feelings for them.
The member’s feelings must only be for the leader. For this reason, the cult does not allow its members to establish a loving and emotional relationship with their families, but instead they must confront their families with insults and slander so that their innate emotional attachment is not revived to hinder the brainwashing process.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh then raised the issue of the dilemma the MEK is now facing. He suggested that Nejat Society’s activities had placed the Rajavi cult at a crossroads. The organization must either obey the wishes of the families and allow the members’ relationship with their families, which is what we want. And this would show that the MEK has the capacity not to be afraid of families and family emotions. Or it continues in its current way,
exposing more and more of its anti-popular nature to the public, and it reveals that its slogans are completely empty and hollow, and that in practice the MEK is something else.
In the next part, the Rajavi cult’s suggestion of a visit by an international delegation to the families in Iran to prepare a report in this regard was welcomed.
Khodabandeh announced, on behalf of all the families, that this proposal is welcome, and the families are ready to meet and talk with any foreign delegation. And, of course, this delegation should also visit the MEK camp in Albania and talk to the members and deliver the letters of the families and bring their answers back.
In the end, while apologizing to the provinces and the families who did not have time to speak, the demands of the families were summarized, which is the same demand that was raised in the petition of the families with nearly 11,500 signatures addressed to the Albanian government as being responsible for the MEK. It means endorsing the right of families to communicate with their loved ones in the MEK camp in Albania and removing obstacles to establishing this connection.
About 2,000 MEK members are based in the cult camp in Albania, who are deprived rights such as the right to communicate with the outside world, especially with family and friends, the right to marry and create a family, the right to leave the cult, the right to criticize the cult leader and the organizational actions, the right to privacy and many other basic rights.
The extent to which the Rajavi cult fears families as part of the Iranian people and the hysterical and irrational reactions they evoke is truly thought-provoking. This fear proves to what extent the MEK is anti-people and to what extent it has the potential to suppress.
In this conference, the voices of the families were brought to every quarter and will be repeated over and over. The Rajavi cult will expose its anti-popular nature through threats and blackmail against the claims of the elderly mothers and fathers. They will not evade or silence these claims.
Ramin Abdollahi deceived by the MEK operatives into joining the group about 17 years ago.Since then he have had no contact with his family.
His aging,ailed mother regularly send letters to the international human rights bodies in order to help her contact his beloved son.
her recent letter to the Albania’s PM, reads:
“Mr. Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania,
I, as a heartbroken mother, ask you and all the officials of the Government of Albania to accelerate the conditions and help me visit my dear son even just for a few seconds.
Thank you in advance for taking steps to respect human rights.“
Ms. Pampuri, former MP
Greetings and kind regards,
According to a website of the Albania based Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), you have made a speech as an MP (even though you had resigned in 2019) for “the International Online Conference on Freedom and Democracy in Iran” on June 20, 2020, in an online conference held connecting about 2,000 locations around the world.
In your political message you addressed the people of Iran and showed your sympathy for them to the best of your knowledge. However, it appears you are not fully aware of the real situation of the MEK members in your own country, their estranged families and how much suffering they have endured for not having contact between loved ones for decades.
We are mothers of the Rajavi cult members. They are trapped in the MEK camp in Albania with no access to the outside world and they are banned from contacting their families. We wish to bring this painful situation to your attention.
We wish to draw your attention to the cultic practices imposed inside the camp and ask you to learn more about this from former members, the families and the critics of the MEK. If the MEK officials can connect 2000 locations at once, why can’t they arrange for their members to call their families?
The truth is that the MEK, like all other destructive mind control cults, has the following characteristics:
1. Suppressing critical thinking about the leader and the cult by the members, or even by outsiders, in the harshest possible way (no criticism);
2. Isolating members from the outside world, in particular their family and friends (no contact);
3. Penalizing the members for even thinking about leaving (no exit);
4. Seeking inappropriate loyalty to their leaders which means the members are practically the possessions of the leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi (modern slavery);
5. Denying the formation of family units (no marriage, no children, no family relations – mothers, fathers, spouses, offspring are considered as the main enemies, even more than the Iranian government);
6. Imposing strict boundaries of behavior (perverting normal emotional responses and spiritual beliefs and denying personal ownership);
7. Perversion from mainstream religious practices and imposing invented cultic doctrines outside actual scripture (under the guise of modern Shiite Islam).
We have just one humanitarian and rightful request. Since you have a close relation with the MEK and Maryam Rajavi, would you kindly act as an intermediary for the families, in particular the elderly mothers, to get in touch with their loved ones so we can at least, in the last days of our lives, hear their voice after the long decades.
Sorayya Abdollahi, on behalf of “Mothers, the forgotten victims of MEK”
Following the nationwide petition of the families with nearly 11500 signatures, a number of families of the members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) camp in Albania from Mazandaran province (north of Iran), have sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian prime minister, urging him to enable them to visit or at least have video or audio contact with their loved ones.
Each of these letters was accompanied by photographs, specifications, and documents, and copies were sent to other Albanian officials, as well as to European and international officials and to the Albanian and international media.
The families also expressed concern about the health of their loved ones in the context of the outbreak of coronavirus disease.
Families are waiting for the Albanian government, as a humanitarian gesture, to respond appropriately to these demands and solve the problems ahead. Many of these families have not heard from their loved ones for decades now.
It should be noted that during these years, many families in Mazandaran province died while waiting to see their loved ones, and they never managed to find out about them, whose names are now missing in the attached list.
Other Mazandarani families also keep sending letters and messages to the Albanian Prime Minister.
The mailing list sent so far from Mazandaran province is attached.
Here are some examples of Mazandaran’s elderly mothers and fathers’ messages to the Albanian Prime Minister, whom Rajavi calls agents and terrorists:
Khadijeh Rezvan Yar Sarai, the mother of Mohammad Reza Khazaei, wrote to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama:”As a mother, why shouldn’t I even have a phone call with my son?”
Ali Asghar Ahangar, son, and Nasibeh Ahangar, daughter of Abdol Hossein Ahangar, wrote:”The MEK has deprived us of a father. Why shouldn’t we be able to talk to our father and hear his voice after so many years?”
Fatemeh Ashouri, Maryam Ramezani’s mother, wrote:”I miss my daughter very much. Why shouldn’t I hear her voice after years?”
Houshang Babaei Chamazekti’s father wrote:”I miss my son very much. Is it true that after so many years I cannot meet my son who is in your country, or at least hear his voice?”
Mohammad Reza Tavakoli the father and Zahra Rajabpour the mother of Alireza Tavakoli wrote:”We have not seen our son for more than 30 years. We miss him very much now and we suffer daily. As parents, why should we not meet or at least talk to our son?”
Safar Zare, the father of Ramazan Zare, wrote:”As a father, why shouldn’t I have the right to meet with my son or at least see his picture and hear his voice?”
Mohammad Oladi, the father of Abbas (Javad) Oladi, wrote:”I miss my son very much. The lack of communication and the inability to meet is very sad.”
Roghayeh Babaei, the mother of Majid Mohammadi Golafshan, wrote:”I have not heard from my son, who is at the camps of the MEK for more than 30 years. Make me happy by removing the obstacles on his way to meet or call me.”
Mrs. Ganjian, the mother of Mostafa and Mahnaz Ganjian, wrote:”As a mother, I miss my children very much. But unfortunately, your government is obstructing the issuance of visas to visit them.”
Farideh Abui, the mother of Mohammad Jafari Keshtali, wrote:”His father died while parting with our son, and I will always remember him. I request that an arrangement be made so that I can have a meeting with my son in Albania before I die.”
Kaveh Latifi, son of Mahmoud Latifi, wrote:”I have not heard from my father for more than 30 years. I am very eager to hear his voice at least once.”
Abbas Famil Zakeri, the father of Mohammad Hossein Famil Zakeri wrote:”I request you to make me happy by removing visa barriers to meet with my son.”
Ghanbar Ali Shabanpour, father of Hassan Shabanpour, wrote:”I miss my son very much. Why don’t you allow me, an old father, to visit my son once before I die?”
“I have raised my children with great difficulty over the years. Why can’t my husband at least talk to his children?“Wrote Mahrokh Rabbani Div Sheli, the wife of Massoud Tusi Bakhsh.
Hassan Tusi Bakhsh and Milad Tusi Bakhsh, sons of Massoud Tusi Bakhsh, wrote:”We are very sad that we cannot hear our father’s voice. Rajavi deprived us of having a father and did not even allow us to hear his voice once.”
Abazar Zabihi, the son of Fatemeh Fekrian, wrote:”Why shouldn’t I have the right to hear my mother’s voice after 30 years and communicate with her?”
“Is it a crime to want to hear my daughter’s voice after 30 years?“Wrote Roghayeh Kiani, Mehri Qadirzadeh’s mother.
Shahnaz Bagheri, the wife of Ahmad Rezaei, wrote:”After my husband was captured, I raised my children with great difficulty. Now why don’t they at least allow him to visit his children?”
Khairullah Sabet Rostami, father of Mohammad Mehdi Sabet Rostami, wrote:”I miss my son very much. Doesn’t this make you wonder why the MEK prevents a son from having at least one contact with his father?”
Hadi Shabani, Iraj Salehi, Mohammad Goli – Nejat Society, Mazandaran Representative
The gathering of suffering families whose beloved ones are being held in an isolated remote camp of MEK in Albania.
The children of some of these families were either soldiers who become POW and then represented to the MEK by Saddam Hussein’s forces after their captivity or they were porters who were captured by Iraqi forces in the border areas and handed over to the MEK or were in Iran’s neighboring countries and have been deceived by the MEK operatives under the disguise of the so called job-finders and sent to Iraq.
Despite the ways the MEK members were captured they all have a common problem:
They are not allowed to visit in person or even make phone call to their own families!
Dr. Olsi Yazhchi interviews Nowroozi pur family
Their brother ; Mohammad Reza joined the MEK in 1985. He is now in his 60s. during all these years he have had no contact with his family except a few calls during the Iran-Iraq War.
Mr. Alireza Nowroozi pur, Mohammadreza’s brother says:” my brother ,Mohamamdreza joined the MEK, 35 years ago. Since then he have had no contacts. He just called us a few times during the war.
The calls was organized in order him to get information from inside the country but not to hear our voice or get news from our well being. When the organization realized that they could not elicit any information from our family,the calls were cut off…
My parents passed away without seeing their dear son. It is a big organized crime against humanity.
Our only request is to know about my brother’s well being.
Watch the full interview and the family’s message to their brother at the MEK Camp :
Mr. Gholam Ali Narimi from Khoozestan Province is presently in the MEK paramilitary camp of Manza in Albania.
Mr. Gholam was born 1960. He joined MEK in 1976 when he was 16 years old. Today he is 60 years old.
His family in Khoozestan in Iran want to meet him. However the Albanian government does not allow his family to come to Albania since Maryam Rajavi, the leader of MEK cult claims that these Iranian families are terrorist and want to kill their family member.
We have interviewed the brother of Mr. Gholam, Mr. Hamid Reza Narimi and his wife Mrs. Sager to understand if they are good people or terrorists?
They appeal in this video to the Albanian government to allow them to come to Albania and meet their brother. They appeal to Mr. Gholam to abandon MEK and live a free life.
