Albania

MKO hostages should be informed about their rights

According to the news websites covering the situation of defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi), the UN High Commissioner of Refugees paid the first monthly contribution to defectors in Albania last Friday February 9th, 2018. The new improvement in implementing laws by the UNHCR considering the defectors of the MKO as independent refugees seems to be a good move.

Since the MKO relocation process to Albania was completed in September 2016 until last Friday, the group leaders have been able to manipulate the UNHCR in executing the international laws about MKO members convincing the UNHCR authorities to allocate the individuals’ monthly payments as a whole to the organization’s leaders.

This rule malfunction helped the MKO leaders confiscate the members’ money and eventually use it as a pressure tool to ban them from leaving their group. Over three hundred people who managed to leave the MKO after the relocation in Albania faced a great deal of problems once they dissociated themselves from the group. They were left homeless and moneyless in the society. They were aided by charities and humanitarian communities. Read the stories of some of the defectors here.

The right to be informed

By officially receiving their first payment, MKO defectors will be able to lead a rather normal life in the free world. Therefore, those who are still taken as hostages in the MKO bases in Albania should be aware of the new regulations in the system of payments of the UNHCR. Particularly, those who are kept in the newly-rented Camp Ashraf 3 in a remote location outside Tirana –more isolated and lonely than the time they were located in Tirana—should be informed about their basic rights. They should be learned that their defection from the cult-like MKO does not result in homelessness and poverty.

This is the crucial responsibility of the UNHCR and the Albanian government to make sure that individuals who are in the Ashraf 3 are not intimidated by the hardship of leaving the Cult of Rajavi.

By Mazda Parsi

February 18, 2018 0 comment

Albania

Mujahedin-e Khalq former member pens letter to Mrs. Rovena Veda

Deputy of Interior Minister of Albania Ms. Rovena Veda

Wisdom and abundant respect,

I am Ali Hussein Nejad, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, who has been a member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization for 30 years 25 years from it as the chief editor and interpreter of the political headquarters and the press, advertising, publishing and foreign affairs organizations of France (at the headquarters of the organization in The suburbs of Paris) and more in Iraq and before that, I have been in the organization of this organization in Iran and other countries for 5 years and now I am a resident and asylum-seeker in France, as a member of the Albania government and responsible for affairs The people of the Mojahedin Organization (Rajavi Sect) in your country want to consider the following, because the result of my experiences and observations during the decade Participation in the organization of this sect in Iraq, especially its interference in Iraqi affairs, and its attempts to smash the political and social situation of that country, which I witnessed for myself as a senior interpreter in the most sensitive political sectors of this organization.

Since the PMOI has a very closed and sectarian leadership and organization, as emphasized by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq in the semi-annual report of 2013, as well as repeatedly in human rights observation reports, Within the organization, we saw that people inside this organization not only deprived of freedom of speech and pen, but even of freedom of thought, and that in their contacts and conversations they were heavily under the control of the leadership and had no right to contact and communicate With outsiders, including their families, even inside the organization, as well as using the Internet Lefebvre, and the media and communications equipment of today’s world, especially now that the leaders of this sect have transferred their captives to a remote and enclosed place in Albania, like their main garrison, Ashraf, in Iraq, and in much worse conditions Prison has caught.

The leadership of the Mojahedin Organization has begun to re-establish the same sectarian and institutional system in Albania, so that people who have been transferred to your free country are also subjected to extreme control, in order not to contact outside of the organization, including their families, and efforts The Albanian government’s philanthropy and philanthropy to rebuild people and bring them to society and free social communication.

I have witnessed the continued involvement of Rajavi’s secession in Iraqi political and social affairs, including forging false statements in the name of Iraqis and training a group of Iraqis as their own mercenaries for influence in the administrative and community institutions of the country, and now it wants the same policies and its plans and practices in Albania.

Therefore, I would like to draw your attention to the subsequent actions of the terrorist and violent leader of this cult to violate the sovereignty of your country and to interfere in its internal and social affairs, because the leaders of this cult seek to break your community to consolidate their place in It is for them to continue their sectarian practices and to carry out their violent and terrorist plans.

Mrs. Deputy Minister of the Interior of Albania,

As Secretary-General of the Government of Albania, I would like to take the necessary measures to prohibit the control and governing of the Organization and its officials in Albania against the transferred individuals, especially those who were detained there, and their interference in affairs They will need to provide the facilities of contact and communication of people transferred to the outside world, especially with their families and meet them.

With respect,

Ali Hossein Nejad – Paris – 14 February 2018

February 18, 2018 0 comment

Albania

Letter to Albania’s deputy interior minister Rovena Voda

Albania’s deputy interior minister Rovena Voda,

Greetings and wish you success in your work and life and the best wishes for the nation with the culture of Albania. I am

Mohamed Razzaghi, a former member of the People’s Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization,

Who is now called the Rajavi terrorist and Mafia cult.

I spent nearly twenty years of my best life in the camouflaged camps of the accursed Saddam as a prisoner of the physical and mental captivity of this denomination in the organization’s relations with the sect, and enough knowledge of the past to criminal ends; the mercenary home of this I also know the extent to which the presence of the leaders and members of the sect in a country can be dangerous for the people of the country hosting the leaders and members of the sect.

Mrs. Rovena Veda : Do you know, for the first time, and the founder of this suicide bombing in the Middle East.

The leader of this cult, in particular, Maryam Rajavi, who is famous among Iranians for Maryam Ghader-e-Islami, is in Taher with expensive clothes and professional repetitions like: freedom, equality, democracy, and … always trying to deceive public opinion and politicians. But know that the leaders of this cult change their colors for the sake of their own interests! The time of the anti-royal revolution within Iran has made itself the greatest enemy of imperialism. Now, with the cooperation of the warring members, we are co-workers and allies! The leaders of this sect have been supporting Saddam Hussein for years and days with dollars received against the people and the interests of the Iranian people for Saddam Hussein, whose undeniable documents are available on the channels and Internet sites. In this sect other than the leader of the sect, no one has the right to marry and the only leader of this sect knows his right to have a woman and a child, and the rest of the members must live without a woman. Members of the Right Sect

Mrs. Rovena Veda: What I wrote briefly in this letter is a summary of the inhumane and inhumane relations of this cult, which Maryam Ghajar- Da’ashi,

Under the nickname of Maryam Rajavi, travels to Albania along with other leaders of this sect, in his black paper

I will give you the opportunity to see me and friends from this cult for the sake of you and the Albanian people and people in direct seeing and experiencing the relations of this sect. I am confident that your awareness and Albanian authorities of the black and criminal record of this cult will greatly help you and the people of Albania, in particular the people of Albania, to gain a good understanding of a dangerous sect so that the future and the future Your nation and your nation will be prevented, as well as land so that the captives in this cult will be abandoned by the Albanian government’s principled measures of captivity.

Thanks ,

Mohammad Razzaghi, former Member of the Rajavi cult

Transcript

Transcript: Ministry of Interior of Albania

Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of Albany

Ministry of Justice of Albania

Embassy of Albania in France

Mohammad Razaaghi, Paris

February 17, 2018 0 comment

Albania

Fatmir Kuci, builder of the Military base in Manez for Mojahedin Khalq

In his show, ‘This is Moscow’, Kastriot Myftaraj has addressed the issue of the Mojahedin (MEK) in Tirana. He identified businessman Fatmir Kuci, as being involved in the Iranian city of Kamza, as Myftaraj calls it.

Myftaraj: As we know, an organization called the People’s Mojahedin of Iran – who have been fighting and wandering around the world for about 40 years – has been given refuge in Albania, where they say they are fighting to overthrow the regime in Iran by force and bring their leader to power in Iran, even though they do not know where Massoud Rajavi is who claims to be the legitimate president of Iran.

On the other hand, his wife Maryam Rajavi – who has taken refuge in Albania – occupies the office of “president-in-exile” instead of the husband. This would be a real comedy, if there were no other consequences.

The Iranian Mujahideen, as we know, have been given refuge in Albania under the US excuse that they have been obliged to protect any possible opposition forces against the theocratic regime of Iran and, as they were left on their hands when Iraq drove them out, they brought them to Albania.

It is a very interesting point that this organization is now building its headquarters in Albania, Manëz military base in Durres.

It is about 20 hectares of land. The vehicles have the name of the construction company, Victoria Invest, written large on them. Which belongs to Mr. Fatmir Kuci, a businessman from Elbasan.

Ora News, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink

February 12, 2018 0 comment

Albania

Nejat Society letter to Albanian Foreign minister

Dear Mr. Ditmir Bushati Albanian Foreign minister,

We are a group of suffering parents. Our beloved children have been taken as hostages by the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) for years. When the MKO was located in Iraq, in order to visit our loved ones we traveled to Iraq several times although most of us were elderlies with too much health problems. We asked the MKO leaders to allow us to visit our children but they reacted in violence verbally abusing us and throwing rocks at us; some parents and siblings of the MKO hostages were consequently injured.

His Excellency,

The terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization has been relocated in Albania since a year and a half ago but we have not been allowed to contact our children yet. Our loved children are kept in a brainwashing isolated atmosphere where family affections are forbidden. They are kept under a modern slavery system. The MKO has ruined the best years of their life. We are truly concerned about the conditions of our children.

Your Cooperation and understanding to pave the way for us to visit our children in Albania will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely Yours

Parents from Nejat Society Markazi branch

February 7, 2018 0 comment

Albania

Iranian mujahideen are extremists

A training manual, which has already been used to train teachers in the country, will also be used in schools to educate children. The manual, published by the Center Against Violent Extremism, warns against the threat to society posed by Mojahedin Khalq organization.

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January 25, 2018 0 comment

Albania

Once you are in the MKO, you are no more self-sufficient

The resettlement of members of the mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) in Albania was accomplished in 2016 following an agreement between the US administration and the Albanian government in 2013. The relocation operation was managed by the UNHCR. [1] Therefore, members of the MKO should have been considered as the refugees under the international laws.

The U.S. assistance to the deal also included a donation of $20 million to the U.N. refugee agency to help resettle the MEK. The U.S. has also provided Albania with security and economic development assistance, to help the country build up its physical capacity to house the refugees. [2]

Cults are destructive

Based on the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees published on the UNHCR website, “Protecting refugees is the core mandate of UNHCR”. To protect refugees the UNHCR should work closely with the state that receives the refugees in its territory. [3]

“UNHCR’s main role in pursuing international protection is to ensure that states are aware of, and act on, their obligations to protect refugees and persons seeking asylum, ”according to the UNHCR website. “However, it is not a supranational organization and cannot be considered as a substitute for government responsibility.” [4]

Thus, in case of the MKO members, the Albanian government is supposed to have certain duties and the UNHCR is expected to ensure that the government is aware of its responsibility and acts properly to fulfill the rights of the MKO’s rank and file while they are required to respect the laws and regulations of the Albanian government in return. [5]

Under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Countries should ensure that refugees benefit from economic and social rights, at least to the same degree as other foreign residents of the country of asylum. The bottom line is that members of the Cult of Rajavi (the MKO) do not benefit from economic and social rights in Albanian territory because they do not enjoy a normal life on their own free will. MKO members are taken as hostages in the headquarters of the group.

“A refugee has the right to safe asylum,” reads the Convention. ”However, international protection comprises more than physical safety. Refugees should receive at least the same rights and basic help as any other foreigner who is a legal resident, including freedom of thought, of movement, and freedom from torture and degrading treatment.” [6]

“Freedom” is a precious gift which allows men to believe and live any way he chooses but it is unheard of in destructive cults such as the MKO. Meanwhile the UNHCR’s assistance “may include financial grants, food, tools and shelter and basic infrastructure such as schools and clinics. With projects such as income-generating activities and skill training programs, UNHCR makes every effort to ensure that refugees become self-sufficient as quickly as possible.”

Based on testimonies of defectors of the MKO in Tirana, the above mentioned facilities are limited to very basic needs such as food and shelter. The MKO’s rank and file have no access to the income-generating activities and skill training programs because they have to be dependent to the cult.

Once a person is stuck in a cult, he or she has to be totally dependent on the leader of the cult. Self-sufficiency is pointless to a cult member. In order to impose more isolation on their rank and file the MKO leaders took their recent action to relocate them to a remote headquarters in north of Tirana. The new base is surrounded by high walls and barbed wire to prevent the members from escaping.

The UNHCR and the Albanian government are highly responsible about the threat of 2500 radicalized cult members who are trained as robots in the Cult of Rajavi. They are potential ISIS-like forces that may turn back to trouble their housing society unless the MKO members are not considered as refugees under international laws. A Huffington Post article by Massoud Khodabandeh clarifies the vague status of the MKO hostages in Albania:

“A report by an Albanian lawyer (acting for MEK members who managed to separate from the group) after meeting with the UNHCR in Tirana reveals that under a secret agreement struck between the Americans, the government of Albania and the MEK leader, the UNHCR supervised the transfer of approximately 3,000 MEK from Iraq to Albania not as refugees but on a ‘humanitarian basis’. In other words, they have no official status in the country.

“According to this agreement, all the expenses for the MEK members are to be doled out by the MEK itself. This means that members are totally dependent on the MEK leadership for their subsistence. Those who have expressed their desire to separate from the group, for whatever reason, must continue to obey MEK rules and restrictions, they must accept MEK imposed conditions so that they are given accommodation and food.” [7]

This unfounded status of some thousand members of a fringe cult may give Albania a slap in the face. This is what Ebi Spahiu of Balkanalysis is concerned about. “Given Albania’s continued struggles with endemic corruption and organized crime, and the slow emergence of religious radicalization as a regional security threat, sectarian rifts may add to the list of challenges facing Albania’s political standing,” he writes. “One point of controversy that has already occurred domestically is that the agreement itself is very vague; there has thus been plenty of criticism domestically over a perceived lack of transparency on the terms agreed between Albania and the US.” [8]

Mazda Parsi

Sources:

[1] Dockins, Pamela, US Praises Albania for MEK Resettlement, VOA, February 14th, 2016

[2 ] ibid

[3] UNHCR website, Protecting Refugees: questions and answers, February 1st, 2002

[3] ibid

[5] ibid

[6] ibid

[7] Khodabendeh, Massoud, Albania’s Modern Slavery Problem Alienates Europe, Huffington Post, November 20th, 2017

[8] Spahiu, Ebi, The Iranian MEK in Albania: Implications and Possible Future Sectarian Divisions, Balkanalysis, January 29, 2017

January 24, 2018 0 comment

Albania

The Albanian Center against Terrorism lists Mojahedin Khalq as an extremist organisation

We publish a manual which the Albanian Center Against Violent Extremism in Albania has made for schools. It has added, among others, the Iranian Mojahedin organization as a violent organization. In the section “Violent Extremism in the World and Albania” the textbook lists some violent organizations.

The three violent organizations listed in this chapter are: ISIS or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) organization or Iranian Mojahedin.

Below is the text from the manual against Violent Extremism titled: With Schools for Safer Communities Reference Guide

Which can be found here:

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Violent Extremism in the World and in Albania

International Recruits of the Islamic State

During the war in Syria, some 6,000 European citizens have joined the Islamic State (known as ISIS or ISIL) since the latter announced the creation of the Islamic Caliphate in the summer of 2014. Since the first half of 2015, some media and intelligence reports suggest that the group has gathered over 30,000 fighters from over 100 countries the world, including over 5,000 to 8,000 women.

Over 1,000 people have joined this group from Western Balkan countries as foreign fighters, mostly from the majority Muslim areas in Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, but also from other populated areas with Muslim minorities in Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. About 140 people joined from Albania.

Since 2014, coalition bombing campaigns against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq have degraded the military capabilities of the group and have reduced almost entirely its territory. Iraqi allied forces came to the town of Raqqa (known as the capital of the Islamic State) in September 2017.

According to preliminary information, about 140 people have joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq from Albania.

The age groups involved range from 26 to 39 years.

Family Jihad has included about 12 women and 32 children.

Geographical breakdown: Tirana, Elbasan, Librazhd, Pogradec, Kavaja, Kukës, Shkodër, among others.

More than 1 in 5 teachers report that students use hate speech or extremist language.

1 in 12 teachers report OTHER teachers who use terms or languages from extremist ideologies.

88.5% of teachers believe that talking to students about extremism violent and consequences is the best intervention.
87.7% believe in teaching techniques for students to resolve conflicts through mediation.

85% believe in informing teachers and parents how to identify the early signs of extremism and radicalization.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) – a jihadist group known also as the Islamic State (IS), it exploded on to the international scene in 2014 when it captured large parts of the territory of Syria and Iraq. This group has become infamous for its brutality involving mass killings, kidnappings and massacres. In June 2014, the group formally declared the creation of a “Caliphate” – a state governed in accordance with Islamic law, or Shariah, which is governed by God’s deputy on earth or Caliph.

The Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham after July 2016 and described as a branch of al-Qaida in Syria or Al-Qaeda in the Levant, is a jihadist Salafist organization fighting Syrian government forces in the Syrian civil war with the aim of creating an Islamic state in the country. The group announced its formation on 23 January 2012.

Foreign Fighters are defined as “individuals traveling to a state other than their state of residence or nationality for the purpose of carrying out, planning, preparing or participating in activities for terrorist purposes or providing or training terrorist acts, including participation in armed conflicts “. They increase the intensity, duration and complexity of conflicts and can pose a serious threat to their countries of origin, transit, destination, and adjacent areas of conflict where they are more active.

The term jihad (in Arabic it is translated as effort, war, commitment) in the religious sense refers to an important concept of Islam; the struggle and effort in the way of God.

The Hijra refers to the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina and his arrival at Qubã at 12 Rabī ‘al-Wālah = September 24, 622. This event marks the beginning of the Islamic era, which was introduced only 17 years later by Caliph Umar ibn el-Chattab.

Extreme right-wing terrorism is motivated by a variety of ideologies and beliefs, including anti-communism, neo-fascism and neo-Nazism, as well as views on abortion. This kind of terrorism has been sporadic, with little or no international cooperation. Right-wing terrorists aim to overthrow governments and replace them with nationalist or fascist regimes.

Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) is an opposition group in exile that supports the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Established in 1965 as a left-wing Muslim group, it strongly opposed the Shah of Iran and was involved in the protests that led to his fall and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Initially, the MEK supported the founder of the new republic Ayatollah Khomeini but soon its leader Massoud Rajavi was banned from competing in the first presidential election, making the MEK turn against the government. For years MEK was listed as a terrorist organization until 2013.

Gazeta Impakt, Tirana, Albania,Translated by Iran Interlink

January 17, 2018 0 comment

Albania

What is “Ablution in the moment” session in Tirana?!

Manuchehr Abdi is a newly defected member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq cult. He spent 14 years in the cult of Rajavis. He is now 55 years old.

Manuchehr Abdi

” When I was in Tehran I wanted to immigrate to abroad. My friends told me about the MKO. They said that the organization was in Iraq and would help me go to Europe. Once I joined the MKO in Iraq, I had no way out any more”, Abdi says in an interview with the Sahar Family Foundation.

In Albania he managed to contact his family by the help of some former members, however the cult authorities got to know and punished him,” I was suppressed because according to the MKO rules, contacting your family is a crime..”

Fortunately he managed to liberate himself from the cult barriers. He now lives a free life in Albania.

Abdi says:” In Albania the cult condition is so fragile .Members are under severe mental pressure and most of them take anxiety drugs and high doses of nerve calming tablets. Members have to work up to midnight in addition to participating different brainwashing sessions.

Asking about the group’s plan in Albania and the members’ fortune was taboo and nobody replied us.

It was forbidden to go out of the camps lonely. We had to go out in accompany with the person who was responsible of our unit. Beside this we were stopped every 50 meters and forced to describe our feelings about seeing the environment, people and everything else which might deviate our mind from the group objectives. This brainwashing sessions which are held beside the streets are called “ablution in the moment”.

To escape such pressures, some members preferred not to take step out of the cult Camps.

December 19, 2017 0 comment

Albania

Albanian Government opens a new military Terror Training Camp for Saddam’s Private Army

The Iranian MEK Mujahedins in Albania up to now lived in rented dormitories in the outskirts of Tirana.

Three days ago the government through a decree signed by Premier Rama gave them a permission to construct a facility ( 200 000 square meters, 19 000 square meters of different buildings) some 12 Km north east of Durres, in the area of Manza.

The facility is made of barracks, dormitories of a maximum capacity of 3 500 beds, first aid station, warehouses and depots included a totally reinforced concrete and thick iron door armory, diesel back up generator hut, parking lot shed (a roofed parking lot) , a helioport of one big size copter capacity, small arms shooting ground, gym building, offices, three two floors villas, vehicles repair shed, common hall (recreation hall) of 300 persons capacity, two smaller conference rooms etc.

The walled compound will have two iron gates protected by two guards towers each gate. The wall will be 3,5 meters tall. I am sending you the official info made public by the government concerning the construction permission of the walled compound.

RIMSE,

December 5, 2017 0 comment

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