A meeting was held at Nejat Society office of Gilan province branch. The participants were waiting families of MEK hostages at MEK Camp in Albania called Ashraf 3.
Missions of Nejat Society
On Friday May 28, a conference was held with the participation of Mujahedin-e Khalq cult former members in the office of Nejat Society on the occasion of the anniversary of the execution of the group’s founders.
The title of the conference was:” People’s Mojahedin and elections from slogan to action and the emergence and dissolution of an organization”
Due to Covid19 health protocols, a few members of Nejat society attended the office and others attended through cyberspace.
At the beginning of the meeting, the head of the Nejat Society of Khuzestan branch, welcomed the attendees.
The recent message of the so-called missing leader of the MEK in which he referred to the issue of engineering the presidential election in Iran and forcing people to participate in the election scene, was among of the topics discussed.
Attendees as the eye witnesses of the MEK affairs believed:”! We do not intend to defend the election process in Iran or to consider it perfect and free of any problems, but the issue we want to address here is that Massoud Rajavi and the Mojahedin Khalq have accused the Iranian government of rigging the election. Do they themselves have a belief in the principle of elections and free voting?
United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office in Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
November 3, 2020
On behalf of the suffering families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), whose loved ones joined this organization, and now have no information about their status, I would like to inform you that more than six months ago these families sent hundreds of complaints, with detailed documents and explanations. They demanded that the situation of their loved ones who became members of the MEK be investigated.
The MEK was stationed at Camp Ashraf in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and was fighting against Iran alongside the Iraqis. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Camp came under US protection and was then handed over to Iraqi forces as ‘the last stronghold of Saddam Hussein’.
At the urging of successive Iraqi governments and with the efforts of the United Nations, the process of MEK expulsion began, and the names of each group leaving Iraq and entering Albania were announced. The process was slow and in very small numbers. But suddenly, in the late summer of 2016, the organization announced that the rest of the people (nearly 3,000), who were supposed to be only several hundreds, had also been transferred to Albania. The names of these people were never published.
MEK members are housed in a remote, isolated camp in Albania where the residents are inaccessible and uncontactable. The families of hundreds of MEK members have no information about the condition of their loved ones.
Also, many of these families have faced various economic and legal problems, including issues related to inheritance, due to the disappearance of these people, and the lack of access to these people has caused them many difficulties for years. MEK members do not have the opportunity to do legal work or appoint a lawyer.
Recently, the MEK reacted to the complaints of these families to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances in its media and tried to make public a few out of their thousands of members and pretend that they have not disappeared but could be found in a certain place. However, their families still have no communication with or access to them.
Hundreds of letters have been sent by these families to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. A small number of respondents have requested the completion of explanations and documents, which has been done immediately, but it seems that the process is very slow.
It should be noted that on February 6, 2007, Albania signed the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, adopted in New York on December 20, 2006, which entered into force on November 8, 2007.
According to Article 31 of the Convention, a State Party must cooperate in the case of the enforced disappearance of any particular person in its own country. Article 32 also emphasizes this issue and the responsibilities of the member states.
These families have sent a great many letters to the Albanian government with the necessary explanations and specifications and have raised a petition signed by more than 11,000 people. The original signatures have been delivered to the Albanian embassy in Paris on 550 pages, but unfortunately there has not been any response from the Albanian government up to now. Therefore, the UN Committee needs to clarify its undertakings on the complaints it has received, and to take legal action to resolve this issue.
On behalf of the families, I would like to thank the Committee on Enforced Disappearances in advance and look forward to learning from you.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
Nejat Society CEO
Tehran, Iran
Letter from “Mothers, the Forgotten Victims” to the Minister of Interior of the Albanian Government
Mr. SANDER LLESHAJ, Albanian Minister of Interiors
Greetings and best regards,
Contradictory reports from Albania indicate that somehow the life of Mr. Ehsan Bidi, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), is in danger.
As you know, Maryam Rajavi has been deported from France and also has no right to enter the European Union. Attempts to obtain entry visas to the United States and the United Kingdom have so far been unsuccessful. She blames the former members, who have revealed the truth about the cult, and intends to take revenge on them.
We know that the internal situation of the Rajavi Cult is very bad and a large number of members want to separate, and the officials of the organization are trying to make the situation outside the MEK camp in Albania unsafe so that no one dares to leave.
In the past, Maryam Rajavi had conspired against Mr. Ehsan Bidi many times and tried to silence him, but she did not succeed. She has not given up her efforts against Mr. Bidi and continues her conspiracies, including giving false information to the police. Apparently, Mr. Ehsan Bidi has been transferred to an unknown location by the police.
On behalf of the suffering mothers of MEK members in Albania, I must inform you that in the current situation, we hold the Albanian government and the Albanian State Police responsible for safeguarding the security of Mr. Bidi and other former members of the Rajavi Cult in that country.
Soraya Abdollahi,
Mothers, the forgotten victims
cc:
General Director of Albanian State Police (ASP) Ardi Veliu
European and International organizations and the media
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
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delegation-albania@eeas.europa.eu
ccpr@ohchr.org
Concerned families send letters to the World Health Organization in Albania.
Reliable reports from Mother Teresa Hospital, as well as the Tirana University Clinic and sources in the Ministry of Health in Albania, indicate that Massoud Nassiri, 63, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), a resident of the organization’s camp in Albania, was definitely infected and died with the Covid-19 virus nine days ago.
Under pressure from the Rajavi Cult on Albanian officials, they initially denied the allegations. A spokeswoman for the Albanian Ministry of Health even told reporters that no Iranian in Albania had died of the coronavirus.
But finally, with the efforts of reporters and following up on various sources, it became clear that the death of Massoud Nassiri was definitely due to the disease caused by the Coronavirus, and also a lot of efforts have been made to hide this issue. It is not clear how many suspected deaths of MEK members in Albania in recent months have been due to the disease, and the cause of death has been kept secret.
The Rajavi cult’s secrecy, with the cooperation of Albanian government officials, doubles the concerns of families. Why should the Rajavi Cult, which has always accused Iranian officials of concealing the statistics related to the outbreak and deaths of the corona pandemic, try to hide the cause of Massoud Nassiri’s death and probably some others?
The families of members of the MEK in Albania have sent letters and messages to WHO officials warning of a humanitarian catastrophe at the camp and calling for immediate action to visit and monitor health conditions there.
The Albanian newspaper Gazeta Impakt, in September 6, 2020 issue, translated and published the letter of Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh to Maria Arena.
In the letter, the CEO of the Nejat Society urged the Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) to endorse the legitimate demands of the families, and ask the Albanian government, which is responsible for this organization in its own country, why elderly mothers and fathers after some four decades should not have contact with their children.
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Drejtori i Përgjithshëm i shoqatës Nexhat i dërgon letër eurodeputetes Znj. Maria Arena
According to several websites of the Albania based Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), an open letter dated June 23, 2020 has been written by a number of organization members, who are based in the MEK camp in Manza, to some Albanian officials.
In this letter the coronavirus outbreak in Tehran and other parts of Iran was dramatized and then used as a conclusive excuse for dismissing the MEK members’ families’ applications for visas to travel to Albania to visit their loved ones who are trapped in the MEK camp. How is it that the outbreak of the virus has so far not been an obstacle to frequent visits by MEK officials between Albania, Italy, France, and other places?
The letter refers to the families’ petition with more than 11250 signatures “Urging Albanian government to let the families contact their loved ones in the MEK camp” and irrationally label their request a terrorist conspiracy. No one has yet discovered that the disease can spread through an audio or visual call with their family.
It should be mentioned that the families’ applying for visas to visit Albania goes back to at least two years before the outbreak of the corona pandemic. Some families actually managed to go to Tirana and approached the MEK residence, trying to learn about the situation of their loved ones, but they were harassed by the MEK guards and unfortunately the Albanian police did not support the families.
This letter was signed by:
Alireza Balali
Mahmood Saadat
Farzin Hashemi
Abbas Golrezan
Mehri Saadat
Parvaneh Rabiey Abbasi
Hamid Reza Noori
Mostafa Ghaedi
Jafar Mamlooki
Khalil Hajhoseini
Ali Asghar Eslami
Reza Salami
Sadegh Keyhan
Shokuh Ghasemi
Tayebeh Yeganeh
Mohamad Jafar Najafi
Nahid Saadat
Mohammad Hassan Bagherzadeh
Mohammad Reza Bagherzadeh
Mostafa Forooghi
Vahid Dowlatshahi Araghi
Gholamreza Ghadery
We immediately informed their families that some vital signs were finally observed from their loved ones, which made them very happy indeed. But they were puzzled by the idea that if they are allowed to write to the Albanian officials, why they are not permitted to write to their own families to relieve them of worry? Unfortunately we had no answer to that. We wished more names had been mentioned.
Over one thousand families have written to their loved ones and published these letters in cyberspace with photos and contact numbers with the hope that it would reach them. This has surely reached the MEK officials. The same could easily be done by the MEK members for their families and there was no need to trouble the Albanian officials.
This letter after saying a lot about everything and everywhere, which is not our concern at all, puts a suggestion as follows:
We have asked the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to send an international fact-finding mission to Iran in the presence of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights situation on Iran and our representatives to meet with families in Iran and to publish its report for the knowledge of the public.
Nejat Society, on behalf of the suffering families of the MEK members in Albania, most warmly welcomes this proposal and would be more than happy to be the host of any person or organization wishing to meet the families in Iran and publish a report, provided they also be able to take the families’ letters to their loved ones and meet them in MEK camp in Albania and bring back their replies.
The good thing is that the MEK is not worried for the UN representatives traveling to Iran and visiting countless number of families in the prevalence of the coronavirus. Referring to the MEK proposal, would they be ready to let the suggested party into their camp accompanied with the old mothers and fathers?
Years ago we handed over a great number of letters from the families to the ICRC to be taken to Ashraf garrison in Iraq. This never happened and the letters were brought back after some months. The ICRC official finally said that he could manage take letters to Bagram prison in Afghanistan for al-Qaeda members, but he is so sorry that he could not take any letters to the inhabitants of the MEK camp.
From Alborz province (north of Iran), a number of families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama simultaneous with the petition of over 11,000 signatures, urging him to lift the obstacles in order to let them meet their loved ones, or at least arrange a phone call with them.
The letters were accompanied by photos and documents and were sent to other Albanian officials, as well as European and international authorities and various media outlets. Families are also concerned about the health of their relatives in the context of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Families are eagerly waiting for the Albanian government to respond to these requests and take effective action as a humanitarian gesture. Many of these families have not heard from their relatives in Albania for several decades now.
It should be noted that during these years, many family members in Alborz province, while waiting to meet their loved ones, passed away and never managed to find out about their situation, and now their names are missing from the appendix list.
Other families from Alborz province are still sending letters and messages.
The table of the letters and messages sent so far from Alborz province is attached
Rajavi brazenly calls elderly mothers and fathers as well as the spouses and offspring of the members of his cult terrorists and mercenaries
Below are some messages to the Albanian Prime Minister for emphasis:
Ehsan Bidi’s father, Mohammad Taghi Bidi, wrote in a letter to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama:”His mother died during our separation, and I wish to see him once before I die.”
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Fatemeh Mohabbati, Azadeh Saboor’s mother, wrote:”I have not heard from my daughter for more than 20 years and I have written many letters to international organizations until Rajavi’s organization published a beautiful picture of my daughter after 20 years and forced her to denounce me, calling me her ‘so called’ mother. I ask you to do something for me that I can hug my daughter again.”
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. Last year, the Rajavi cult insulted Ms. Fatemeh Mohabbaty because of her letters to various international and human rights organizations. The letters and e-mails sent by this suffering mother since 2006 had been placed in front of the Rajavi cult officials. The cult recited the letters in the last stance against this mother.
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Mojtaba Alimardani’s father, Janali Alimardani, wrote:”I heard from the released prisoners of war that Rajavi’s organization had captured my dear son. His mother has fallen ill because of her distance from him and wept many hard tears. A prisoner of war should return to his homeland.”
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Ali Akbar Baba Ali the father and Batoul Boubeh Tom the mother of Asghar Baba Ali wrote:”We and the others have been waiting for our son for 30 years now. He was a prisoner of war who fought and was captured while defending his homeland and who could return home with pride. But now he is trapped by the Rajavi cult and cannot communicate with his family. What have we done wrong that for years we should not see our son and we should not hear his voice?”
Ali Akbar Baba Ali and Batoul Bobeh Tom are Asghar Baba Ali’s parents. He was captured by Saddam Hussein and given to Massoud Rajavi. He is currently being held by the MEK in Albania.
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Monireh Al-Sadat Azimi, mother of Fereydoun Oqbaei, wrote:”My son has been gone for 25 years now and we do not know why he can’t call us. His father is sick and is waiting for him. I ask the Albanian Prime Minister to do something so that my son can meet with his family and be in touch.”
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Zahra Kaabi, the mother of Mohammad and Fatemeh Raisvand, wrote:”My son and daughter have been away from us for years. Allow me to visit them or at least call them.”
Zahra Kaabi is the mother of Mohammad and Fatemeh Raisvand. They are members of the Rajavi cult in Albania. Mohammad Raisvand joined the organization in 1988 and in 2008 invited his mother and sister to visit him. Fatemeh Raisvand went to Iraq and Camp Ashraf with her mother with legal documents. She was then kept in Ashraf garrison by deception and manipulation.
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Masoumeh Rezaei Jolfaei, the mother of Seyed Saeed Farajollah Hosseini, wrote:”My dear son has been away from me for many years and I am trying to communicate with him. I know he is unwittingly with the Rajavi cult. I wish to meet my son in Albania.”
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Hassan Heydarian Abhari, the father of Davood Heydarian Abhari, wrote:”I am a father who lost my eyes in the loss of my son. I desperately ask you to return my son to me so that I can embrace him again.”
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Khorram Ramezani’s mother, Ferdows Ayvazpour, wrote:”I am waiting for my son as well as his sister and brother. Everyone knew that we could not be separated. But now we have been separated for years. I hope one day I will open the door for my son. I call on the Albanian government to end this separation and humiliation for me, a suffering mother.
Ferdows Eivazi is the mother of Khorram Ramezani. Khorram and his cousin Iraj Ramezani were captured by the invading Iraqi forces inside the city of Khorramshahr during the first days of the Iran-Iraq War, and then handed over to Massoud Rajavi in the prisoners’ camp. Khorram is currently being held by the Rajavi cult in Albania.
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Yadollah Molaverdi, the father of Mansour Molaverdi, wrote:”I wish you could arrange for me to meet my son after so many years.”
Yadollah Molaverdi is the father of Mansour Molaverdi. Mansour was captured by Iraqi forces in 1980 in a war zone and then handed over to Massoud Rajavi from the prisoner of war camp. He is currently involved with the Rajavi cult in Albania.
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Mansour Akhlaghi, the father of Mohammad Reza Akhlaghi, wrote:”I have been disconnected from my son for many years. Allow him to communicate with this old father.”
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Morteza Nouri Shad, the father of Mostafa Nouri Shad, wrote:”I have had no news of my son for many years. He is now in the MEK camp in Albania, but he is not able to contact me. Allow me to find out about his condition.”
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Behrouz Pakdel, the son of Mehdi Pakdel, wrote:”I have not seen my father for 30 years and as a child Rajavi’s organization deprived me of my father’s love and affection. Please allow me to meet my father or at least contact him.”
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Nahid Khosravi, Bijan Madani’s mother, wrote:”I have been suffering from my son’s distance for many years. Does a simple contact between a son and his mother create a problem that the Rajavi cult has banned it?”
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Mohammad Kordbacheh, the father of Farzaneh Kordbacheh, wrote:”I have been uninformed about my daughter’s condition for years. A simple call with news about her health will not kill anyone.”
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Habibollah Parandak’s wife, Nahid Eskandarzadeh, wrote:”I have been waiting for years to see my husband again. When will this waiting be over?”
Bizhan Rezavandi – Nejat Society, Representative of Alborz (north of Iran) Province
Coinciding with the recent petition of 11,000 signatures, the families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania from Kermanshah province (West of Iran), sent several letters and messages to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, calling for news and communication and possibly meeting with their loved ones.
In addition to each of these letters, photos, details and documents have been sent, and copies of the letters have been provided to other Albanian officials and media, as well as European and international authorities. In addition, families have expressed their concern about the health of their loved ones in the current state of the prevalence of coronavirus.
May the Albanian government, as a humanitarian move, respond appropriately to these demands and remove the obstacles ahead. Many of these families have not had the slightest news of their loved ones living in the MEK camp in Albania for decades.
Unfortunately during these years, many families in Kermanshah province have passed away while waiting to be reunited with their loved ones, and they have never been able to get any news from them, and their names on this list are missing.
The table of relevant list of letter headings is attached
Some of the messages given to the Albanian Prime Minister by the elderly parents, who unfortunately are called mercenaries and terrorists by the Rajavi cult, are emphasized below:
Taj al-Dawla Heydarian, the mother of Mehdi Hamidfar, wrote to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama:”I have been uninformed about my son for more than 20 years. Please provide us with the conditions to visit.”
Gorji Bavandpour, the mother of Dariush Najafi, wrote:”I have not seen my son for more than 20 years. Please help me to hear from him.”
“I haven’t heard from my son for years. I ask for your help to get in touch with him,“said Abdul Karim Karimi’s mother, Piroozh Mehrabani.
Mustafa Abbasi, Muzaffar Abbasi’s father, wrote:”I haven’t heard my son’s voice for more than 20 years. Please help me get in touch with him.”
Mozaffar Abbasi’s daughter Negar Abbasi also wrote:”Please help me to hear my father’s voice once after so many years.”
Haidar Ali Khalou Kakai, the father of Alireza Khalo Kakai, wrote:”I haven’t seen my son for years. Please help me get in touch with him.”
“I have been uninformed about my husband for many years. Please help me talk with him,“wrote Jawahar Heydarian, the wife of Musayeb Rashidi.
Fatemeh Rashidi, the daughter of Musayeb Rashidi, also wrote:”I have been waiting for years to meet my father, whom I have never met, or to hear his voice. I need your help.”
Afshin, Noushin, and Neda Sepah Amiri, the offspring of Ali Sepah Amiri, wrote:”We are asking for help to meet or communicate with our father in Albania after so many years.”
Alireza Jafari’s parents, Babajan Jafari and Sakineh Mohammadi, wrote:”We have been uninformed about our son’s condition for years. Help us meet him or at least to hear his voice.”
“I have not seen my son for more than 30 years. I ask you for help to make the conditions for meeting possible,“wrote Ali Murad Lotfi’s mother, Fanoos Khodadadian.
Sajjad Faramanizadeh, the son of Goodarz Faramanizadeh, wrote:”Don’t deprive me from having a father, help me meet my father.”
Vali Doosti – Nejat Association, Kermanshah province agency