Fatemeh Mohabbati, is the mother of Azadeh Saboor. Azadeh is a member of the Rajavi cult. In 2000, Azadeh and her husband were deceived by the MEK and were captured by them. During all these years, the mother has had no contact with her daughter.
Ms. Mohabbati asks the Albanian Authorities to accelerate a way to visit her daughter,Azadeh Saboor.
On the occasion of the Persian New Year, Hamael Ghanizadeh called “Mother Saadat” sends a video message for her beloved children who have been taken as hostages by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) in Albania for 33 years.
Speaking in Turkish, Mother Saadat mourns in the absence of Mehri, Mahmoud and Nahid for another new year holiday in the past years. “Release yourself from the hands of the dictators,” she addresses her children. “I am old. I cannot walk. I want to see you. I miss you. I hope we can visit each other someday.”
Referring to the despotic rule of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi over the MEK, she says, “What a dictatorship it is! If you were imprisoned in Tabriz during these 33 years, I was at least allowed to visit you.”
As leaders of the MEK do not allow the members to contact their families by any means, Mother Saadat asks her beloved son and daughters a few crucial questions, “What will Massoud and Maryam Rajavi do for the Iranian people if they come to power in Iran? What do they mean by such attitude towards their own members?”
Hamael Ghanizadeh mother of Mehri, Nahid and Mahmoud Saadat who are fell trapped in the MEK
The heart-broken mother of Nahid, Mehri and Mahmoud Saadat used to be a sympathizer of the MEK but now she hates the MEK. She explains the reason in the video message to her children: “You know that I used to love the MEK very much but now not anymore. When Massoud Rajavi launched that game of marriage and divorce [forced members to divorce their spouses] in order to keep you under his own control, I began to hate him. His act was illegitimate. I am not as I was before. Do not wonder why your mother has changed. The acts and attitudes of your leader made me hate the MEK.”
Mother Saadat warns her children about the brainwashing system of the Cult of Rajavi. She knows that her loved ones in Camp Ashraf 3 are kept in ignorance from what is going on in the outside world. She asks them to think deeply and make a correct decision.
“You just chant slogans for People! People! People!” she says. “I am one of the People! Stop chanting slogans! You cannot do anything! You just put yourselves and your families in trouble. You did not become a mother or a father. You ruined all your dreams and I am so sad for you.”
Mother Saadat hopes her three beloved children a prosperous new year in which they will be able to get determined to leave the Cult of Rajavi. About two thousand MEK members are imprisoned under the rule of the Rajavis’ dictatorship in Camp Ashraf 3, a heavily guarded camp in north of Tirana, the Albanian capital.
On Friday December 31st ,2021 a video link was set between a number of MEK members families of Khuzestan Province and ASILA association members.
The families of the MEK hostages were gathered together from the cities of Ahwaz, Khorramshahr, Abadan and Andimeshk.
Nejat families met and exchanged views with Mr. Dashamir Mersuli , CEO and Hassan Heirani, Executive Director of the ASILA as well as a number of MEK defectors living in Albania.
Recounting the pains and sufferings of long years being away from their loved ones, the families urged the directors of the ASILA Association to try to make their voices heard after many years and to pave the way for them to travel to Albania and meet their loved ones.
Reliable information obtained from some sources, including within the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), indicates that the MEK’s sensitivities towards the activities of the Nejat Society have increased significantly compared to previous years.
This information shows that the MEK, in its political communications and lobbying, has launched a large-scale campaign against the Nejat Society and the activities of the families, and is desperately trying to induce that these activities are all planned by the Iranian intelligence in order to introduce the purpose of laying the groundwork for terrorist operations.
The Rajavi cult is trying to republish the counterfeits against the CEO of the Nejat Society on various monetary sites in Europe and the United States from more than 10 years ago at great expense, and display them to the audience as new first-hand information.
The Rajavi cult also tries to, by selecting and translating the contents of the Nejat website and presenting them to Albanian and European officials, prove that the families who want to meet their loved ones in the MEK camp in Albania are all Iranian intelligence officials that pursue terrorist intentions.
It goes without saying that these efforts have largely turned against themselves, and many audiences have realized that the main opposition of the Rajavi cult is merely families, and like all mind control destructive cults in the world, considers its members’ families the main enemy. The MEK has always failed to answer this question that “What security threat can some elderly mothers and fathers pose to them in Albania?”. Many have assessed such activities of the MEK as a sign of helplessness and nervousness, and of course propaganda against the Nejat Society and its CEO.
The main problem and reason for the fear of the Rajavi cult is the establishment and registration of “ASILA” as an association for the protection of the basic rights of Iranians living in Albania and its relationship with the Nejat Society and families inside Iran, which is a turning point in their presence in Albania.
What is true and what the leaders of the MEK want to cover up is that the members of this cult have no basic human rights, including the right to marry and start a family and have children, the right to communicate with the outside world, particularly family and friends, and the right to receive salaries for their work. They are also deprived of many other rights recognized in the UN Charter of Human Rights.
As far as suffering and awaiting families are concerned, they are determined not to give up on achieving their ultimate goal, which is to gain the rights of their children, especially the right to family visit, and certainly slander and insults made by the Rajavi cult will not cause families to retreat.
By Atefeh Nadalian,
Mr. Karim A. A. Khan QC
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Greetings and respects,
We, a group of Khuzestani families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in the camp of this organization in Albania, were informed that a number of former members of the MEK filed a complaint against the leaders of this organization for systematic and widespread crimes against them in one of the Iranian courts. Obtaining a final verdict, the relevant documents have been handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for further action.
The plaintiffs in this case, each in the presence of a judge in Iran, pointed to many cases of violation of the most obvious human rights of members by the leaders of the MEK, which we families, while supporting these plaintiffs, believe that the internal relations of the MEK are strained. Let us bring the following to your attention:
Years ago, MEK leaders lured our children into Iraq by using deceptive schemes, such as getting a job in Europe, seeking asylum in European countries, or using brainwashing and deception methods.
The leaders of the MEK have been depriving our children of any face-to-face meetings or telephone contact with their families for years in order to advance their goals, and they are abusing them in illegal acts.
According to former members of the MEK, the leaders of the MEK always deprive members of their most obvious human rights and severely suppress their humanitarian demands.
Khuzestani families of MEK members living in Albania
As members’ families, we often went to the MEK headquarters in Iraq to visit our loved ones, but the authorities there, at the behest of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, had the worst inhumane treatment against us, including insulting and throwing stones at us.
After being transferred to Albania, MEK leaders continued to prevent members from connecting with their families or choosing the path of their lives, despite being in an independent and free country.
Members who break away from the MEK in Albania are required by UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to pay their monthly salaries by the MEK. But according to former members, MEK leaders pay their salaries if they spy for the MEK on other former members. Also, another condition of the MEK leaders for the former members is that they should not contact their families and if they do, they should report it to the officials of the organization.
Now, according to the above points, we ask you to follow the issue of the deplorable situation of our children there, by sending an independent delegation to the MEK camp in Albania, away from any political considerations and equations.
We remind you that for several years we, the families, have applied for visas from the Albanian government to travel to their country to visit our children, but unfortunately, the Albanian government has left our application unanswered every time.
We, the families, urge you to intervene as soon as possible and summon the leaders of the MEK to the international trial in order to investigate and take further action against the complaints of 42 people whose documents are in your possession.
Thanks,
A group of Khuzestani families of the members of the MEK in Albania
(Khuzestan is a province in southwestern Iran)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Albania
Greetings and respects,
We are a number of families from Azerbaijan province (North West of Iran) of the members of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) who are trapped in the MEK camp in Albania.
After 18 years of separation, the Albanian government has prevented elderly parents of Mr. Hassan Heyrani from entering the country to visit their son. Is this a humane act? Mr. Heyrani is under the care of the UNHCR.
Hassan Heyrani Parents. Hassan is the MEK ex-memebr living in Albania
We urge the UNHCR in Albania to see into this human rights case as soon as possible and make the necessary arrangements for this humanitarian meeting, and oblige the Albanian government to agree to this meeting in Albania where Mr. Heyrani lives at the moment.
A number of families from Azerbaijan Province – Iran
Copy to:
– International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
– Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
– Office of the Interior Minister of Albania
– Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania
– European Union
– The Media
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.”
Mr. Jafarpour, the father of Ali Askar Jafarpour, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), stated at the nationwide online conference of the Nejat Society held in August 2021:
Thanks to Mr. Khosropour and Mr. Moradi of the Nejat Society office in the Province of Lorestan, who have worked hard over the years. They have guided and have helped the families to follow their children’s case.
The father of Ali Askar Jafarpour
I support the complaints of 42 former MEK members against the MEK leaders.
We have been requesting to meet with our children for years. But unfortunately, the MEK has deprived us of this meeting.
I thank God for the return of this number of separated members and I hope that they will be able to make a living in Iran without any problems.
I thank you all for your efforts.
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.”
Shokooh had just finished high school when she traveled to Turkey in the early 1990s. She was planning to immigrate to Europe via Turkey in order to study in a European university.
“In turkey, she called us a few times and told that she was getting prepared to travel to Europe,” her father, Mohammad Qasemi told Nejat Society. “After some time, we lost her track. Shokooh did not contact us anymore.”
Shokooh Qasemi had joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). “She was the commander of a tank unit in Camp Ashraf,” says Foad Basri, former member of the MEK. “I used to see her from time to time when I was there.”
Mohammad qasemi – father of shokooh Ghasemi
Mohammad Qasemi has not seen his daughter for over thirty years. He has not even heard her voice through a voice call in the years of Shokooh’s membership in the cult-like system of the MEK. He has made efforts to contact his daughter; he has written several open letters and has published text, voice and video messages on Nejat Society website in the hope of visiting his beloved daughter someday.
In his latest message, he says:
“I wonder how Rajavi speaks of freedom and democracy while he has kept my daughter behind the bars of his group for many years. Is my daughter free? If she is free then why don’t you allow her to call her family? This is so inhuman. Rajavi has taken my daughter as a hostage. I have not seen the face of my daughter for over thirty years. I have forgotten her face. I read that Rajavi wants to liberate Iranian people! Are Iranian people in prison?
They are living their lives despite their issues. I am telling Rajavi : ‘First liberate those you have imprisoned in your group! Let alone the Iranian people!’ Rajavi and his commanders are not human beings. I am looking forward to the day that my daughter will unshackle herself and get back to embrace her family.”
