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Exit News and others, Tirana, Albania, August 17 2020:… Ehsan Bidi came to Albania with more than 2000 Mujahadeen from the Freedom Camp in Iraq. He was granted refugee status, supposedly lasting until 2023. During his time in Albania, he defected from the MEK and had his refugee status revoked. He was then imprisoned for one year at the Karrec detention centre with several other defectors. Bidi was due to hold a press conference at Tirana International Hotel today at 11.00 in an attempt to clear his name but the Hotel cancelled at the last minute, citing orders from the police. Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
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1- Alleged Iranian Agent and ex-MEK Member at Risk of Deportation
An Iranian citizen and ex-member of MEK has been accused of being a foreign agent and is at risk of being expelled from the country.
Ehsan Bidi came to Albania with more than 2000 Mujahadeen from the Freedom Camp in Iraq. He was granted refugee status, supposedly lasting until 2023. During his time in Albania, he defected from the MEK and had his refugee status revoked. He was then imprisoned for one year at the Karrec detention centre with several other defectors.
@SanderLleshaj and the MEK did not want the case of Ehsan Bid and his illegal dumping at the Greek border to come to the media but they failed. Here we are.
Ministria e Brendshme urdheron Hotel Tiranen qe te mos na lejoj te bejme… https://t.co/WpZYu59jQ1 via @YouTube— Massoud khodabandeh (@ma_khodabandeh) August 17, 2020
On 13 August, media (Albanian Top-Channel.TV Fed by MEK Propaganda apparatus in Albania -Iran Interlink) reported that he would be deported from Albania to Greece because he is an “Iranian agent”. The MEK claim that “an asylum seeker, under international law, is a person whose life is in danger in his country of origin,” and that Bidi does not fit this criterion.
Bidi was then taken to the Greek border at Kapshtica where the Greek authorities wouldn’t let him cross. It was reported that the Greek side did not want to carry out deportation procedures.
Just finished the media release about the illegal detention and persecurion of Ehsan Bidi. The media declarations were held outside Tirana International Hotel. @SanderLleshaj Ministry ordered Hotel Tirana to refuse our entry in name of Covid 19 pic.twitter.com/HOF9oEz6mD
— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) August 17, 2020
A representative of Bidi speaking to Exit said that he is not an Iranian agent and that the attempts to deport him and therefore “risking his life” are because he defected from the MEK camp. Exit has been unable to verify this either way.
Bidi was due to hold a press conference at Tirana International Hotel today at 11.00 in an attempt to clear his name but the Hotel cancelled at the last minute, citing orders from the police.
Exit called the hotel and asked what reason the police gave for cancelling the conference, and they said it was due to COVID-19 protocols.
2- Ehsan Bidi Press Conference Went Ahead
Sander Lleshaj and the MEK did not want the case of Ehsan Bid and his illegal dumping at the Greek border to come to the media but they failed. Here we are.
Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
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Rajavi House of Cards Destroyed By Ehsan Bidi – Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Iran Interlink, August 16 2020:.. Olsi Jazexhi, a prominent Albanian historian and media personality, named Sandër Lleshaj as one of the politicians colluding with the MEK against Bidi. Jazexhi gathered support from several members of parliament who are strongly opposed to the MEK presence in their country. Journalists willing to investigate the case were also called into action. Gjergji Thanasi, an acclaimed investigative journalist, alerted local and foreign media in Italy, France and Greece and interested parties in Europe and beyond including the UNHCR and the ICRC were informed. In Tirana, Migena Balla, a lawyer, kept everyone up to speed on the legal parameters of what was happening – mostly it was illegal state activity. Rajavi House of Cards Destroyed By Ehsan Bidi – Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – Aug 14, 2020 – Rajavi House of Cards Destroyed By Ehsan Bidi
++ A cruel conspiracy between corrupt elements in the Albanian government, security services and the MEK to illegally remove Iranian asylum seeker Ehsan Bidi from Albania blew up in a dramatic series of events this week. Bidi, an outspoken former member of the MEK, had already been accepted as a refugee in Albania and had been issued with ten-year residence and work permits. Last August, Albanian security officials illegally detained Bidi without charge and held him in a deportation centre in conditions worse than a prison. He was denied legal representation or visits from his friends. Over the subsequent year, Bidi was put under intense pressure to sign documents agreeing to his deportation from Albania and to be sent to Iran. He resisted.
Under Albanian law, if after a year, the subject has not been charged with any crime and/or deported, the state is obliged to release them. However, in the case of Ehsan Bidi, the MEK were not going to accept his release. Consequently, a series of misinformation and illegal activity were instigated at state level to have Bidi physically removed from the country.
Information leaked by patriotic officers of the security services related that immigration police were directed to tell Bidi that he would be released according to the law but immediately kidnapped and deported to Turkey. This was of course nonsense because Turkey would not accept such a deportee. But this information triggered an immediate prevention and rescue intervention by friends and supporters of Bidi.
Olsi Jazexhi, a prominent Albanian historian and media personality, named Sandër Lleshaj as one of the politicians colluding with the MEK against Bidi. Jazexhi gathered support from several members of parliament who are strongly opposed to the MEK presence in their country. Journalists willing to investigate the case were also called into action. Gjergji Thanasi, an acclaimed investigative journalist, alerted local and foreign media in Italy, France and Greece and interested parties in Europe and beyond including the UNHCR and the ICRC were informed. In Tirana, Migena Balla, a lawyer, kept everyone up to speed on the legal parameters of what was happening – mostly it was illegal state activity.
On the morning of Thursday 13 August Ehsan Bidi was told to pack his belongings. Bidi was in fear of his life, knowing that MEK have killed several of their members and former members in the past.
Former MEK member Hasan Heyrani – also an outspoken critic – immediately drove to the detention centre to keep eyes on Ehsan. He was soon joined by Olsi Jazexhi. Two witnesses to events already in place before Bidi was moved.
Bidi was put in a police vehicle along with his belongings and driven west in the direction of the coast. But then they turned back in the direction of Tirana. At first, Bidi feared he was being driven to the extraterritorial, extrajudicial MEK camp in Manez. But the vehicle continued toward Tirana. Bidi managed to post GPS images of his location from his phone. After Tirana they took the direction of the border with Greece. As they passed Kapshtica, which has a refugee reception Centre nearby, it became clear that the vehicle was headed directly for the Greek border. The police vehicle went off road and travelled several kilometres into the neutral zone between Albania and Greece. Once inside Greece, the Albanian police off loaded Bidi and his belongings and left. Bidi was abandoned without food or water or any means to move beyond that spot. He filmed these events on his mobile phone revealing his predicament.
This elicited an angry response from Greece. Nearby border posts were closed to prevent entry into the country. The Greek government expressed deep displeasure at this international incident – Albanian police entering Greece and dumping a refugee there.
In the meantime, several media outlets wanted to travel to where Bidi was to capture the story and hopefully interview him. The problem was, Bidi was now off grid in the middle of nowhere. However, those who followed the police vehicle to protect Bidi included a lawyer. Arriving at the border town, he spoke with the police, who admitted there had been a mistake. They returned and picked up Bidi with his possessions and took him to a converted container made up as a dormitory. After further intervention by the lawyer, he was taken to a proper building and given a room. The police claimed that a mistake had been made when “immediate deportation” had been typed instead of “immediate release”. Bidi was brought to Tirana today (Friday 14th August), and released into the care of his friends (former MEK members who are resident in Tirana).
As expected, these events caused outrage in the Farsi commentariat. Families of MEK members, former MEK members, interested persons and media authors all wrote to condemn this stupid and cruel action. The Albanian government was rightly vilified. But more importantly this is seen as a huge humiliating defeat for Maryam Rajavi.
Rajavi and her MEK members, incapable of making real relationships with outside bodies, are forced to pay for media coverage – through bribes, back handers or straightforward advert-articles. They went overboard to publish news in every second-rate news outlet in Albania that Ehsan Bidi had been deported from the country. Only, he hadn’t. So, Rajavi not only implicated herself in the conspiracy, but she had to try to retract these news items. The MEK websites were guiltily cleaned of these mentions of deportation.
But Rajavi’s biggest failure was that the fundamental message drilled into the brains of every MEK member is that if you leave you will be demonised and persecuted and forced back to Iran where you will be tortured and worse. Rajavi claims she is backed by everybody and can order Albania to do her bidding. She claims she can still do what she was doing in Iraq – force people back to Iran to be arrested on charges of terrorism. She claimed to be able to do the same thing in Albania.
Ehsan Bidi’s brave resistance, in Iraq and Albania, to Rajavi’s every effort to destroy him, along with the support he has from many, many quarters, has completely broken this spell. Now every MEK member knows that if Bidi can do this, so can they. Members are stuck there because of the ‘cult phobia’; fear of what might happen to them. Now they all know that they will be OK if they leave. Ehsan Bidi has completely exposed and demolished the false edifice of Rajavi’s control mechanism.
Ehsan Bidi is free and is happy. He resisted Rajavi’s worst and nastiest efforts to intimidate and crush him. He is now surrounded by friends and supporters. The Albanian government has fingers of blame pointing at it – not least from Greece and the EU accession negotiators, as well as the UNHCR and the ICRC. Rajavi is diminished – as a person, as a leader, even as a useful idiot. Bidi is considering his options. He will look into legal redress and compensation. He is also planning challenging Albania’s media to tell the truth about these events and the characters involved. There may even be a Hollywood film – maybe.
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – Aug 14, 2020 – Rajavi House of Cards Destroyed By Ehsan Bidi
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Ehsan Bidi Victim of MEK and Albanian Government Collusion
Iran Interlink, August 13 2020:… Although Ehsan Bidi was officially free, elements in the Albanian government’s mafia apparatus and the US, Israeli, and Saudi embassies that the MEK had approached, prevented them from giving him this freedom, and were instead constantly trying to force him to leave Albania. Finally, today he was taken in a car to the Greek border. Greek border guards prevented their car from entering Greece, completely closing the border. Consequently, the Albanian government agents left Bidi in a completely uninhabited area between the two counties with his belongings but without any food or water. This is the last point at which there has been news of Ehsan Bidi. Ehsan Bidi Victim of MEK and Albanian Government Collusion
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Ehsan Bidi Victim of MEK and Albanian Government Collusion
The Rajavi Cult in collaboration with corrupt elements in the Albanian government against an Iranian asylum seeker
Why are the MEK and the Albanian government so afraid of Ehsan Bidi?
Iranian asylum seeker Ehsan Bidi has been illegally detained for a year without charge, without trial and without the right to visitation. This was after he had previously been accepted as a refugee in Albania and even had a residence and work permit.
Ever since Ehsan Bidi, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, was arrested, he has been under intense pressure to leave Albania voluntarily, but he resisted and refused to sign any confession. The pressure of the Albanian government, in full cooperation with the MEK, on the one hand, and the efforts of lawyers and a number of Albanian citizens who were constantly threatened by MEK elements, on the other hand, marked the battle of captivity and freedom during one year.
It is interesting that the same officials who arrested Ehsan Bidi and kept him in prison illegally are now accused of corruption, bribery and illegal actions in several cases. These corrupt officials worked in full complicity with the Rajavi terrorist cult.
#MaryamRajavi and her terrorist #MEK has forced @SanderLleshaj to deport Ehsan Bidi because he denounced the Mojahedin-e Khalq group for its terrorist and illegal activities in Albania. Please ask Albania to stop its discrimination of MEK defectors! pic.twitter.com/yagSgZ05sn
— Ebrahim Khodabandeh (@ebi_khodabandeh) August 12, 2020
Today, Thursday 13 August 2020, Ehsan Bidi was finally released after a year of illegal detention. In this regard, the Rajavi cult, which considered itself the main loser, under the name of “Security and Counter-Terrorism Commission of the National Council of Resistance”, revealed its weakness and false rhetoric by labelling every person and agency that had supported Bidi as ‘Iran’s intelligence agents’.
Although Ehsan Bidi was officially free, elements in the Albanian government’s mafia apparatus and the US, Israeli, and Saudi embassies that the MEK had approached, prevented them from giving him this freedom, and were instead constantly trying to force him to leave Albania. Finally, today he was taken in a car to the Greek border.
Greek border guards prevented their car from entering Greece, completely closing the border. Consequently, the Albanian government agents left Bidi in a completely uninhabited area between the two counties with his belongings but without any food or water. This is the last point at which there has been news of Ehsan Bidi.
Ehsan Bidi was left in the neutral zone between Albania and Greece without the slightest means of helping himself. It has been essentially proven that the corrupt elements in the government of Edi Rama and his Saudi and Zionist supporters are no better than the Rajavi cult, and they are all involved in committing crimes.
The Greek authorities announced that they have closed the border and prevented them from entering. Lawyers and former MEK members in Albania, and even members of the Albanian parliament and a number of journalists, are trying to locate Ehsan and return him back to Albania, and some have travelled to the border for this purpose.
Terror has gripped Rajavi’s criminal den. Whenever this criminal and treacherous cult talks about a terrorist conspiracy, it is clear that it is itself carrying out a terrorist conspiracy. What will an organization that does this to its helpless former member simply because he has expressed dissatisfaction, do with serious opponents and critics? With each passing day, the hands of these evil elements, who are hired by one of the enemies of Iran and Iranians time to time, become more and more exposed.
Ehsan Bidi Victim of MEK and Albanian Government Collusion
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Iran Interlink, August 16 2020:.. Olsi Jazexhi, a prominent Albanian historian and media personality, named Sandër Lleshaj as one of the politicians colluding with the MEK against Bidi. Jazexhi gathered support from several members of parliament who are strongly opposed to the MEK presence in their country. Journalists willing to investigate the case were also called into action. Gjergji Thanasi,… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Atefeh Nadalian, Nejat Society, August 15 2020:… Ehsan Bidi is now free in Albania, and Albanian officials have apologized to him, but this is just the beginning. In addition to Mr. Ehsan Bidi and his unparalleled one-year resistance, thanks to political activist Mr. Olsi Yazeji, journalist Mr. Gjergji Thanasi, and lawyer Ms. Migena Balla, and many other Albanian politicians, journalists,… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Faragh Society, Ardebil Provence, Iran, 14 August 2020:… Families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) in Albania from Ardabil Province (North West Iran) have issued a letter to the Albanian Interior Minister protesting the organization’s recent collusion with corrupt elements in the Albanian government regarding Mr. Ehsan Bidi, a former member of the organization. According to Feraq news-analytical… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Iran Interlink, August 13 2020:… Although Ehsan Bidi was officially free, elements in the Albanian government’s mafia apparatus and the US, Israeli, and Saudi embassies that the MEK had approached, prevented them from giving him this freedom, and were instead constantly trying to force him to leave Albania. Finally, today he was taken in a car to the Greek border.… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Olsi Jazexhi, Balkans Post, April 16 2020:… Shahin and Behzad Safari are both liars. The Albanian journalist Gjergji Thanasi, has sued Behzad for libel and slander after the later accused Gjergji Thanasi to be an Iranian agent. I hope Shahin Gobadi and Saffari will be able to properly defend themselves in the Albanian court for their insult against Gjergji Thanasi,… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Survivors of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi Cult) in Albania, January 12 2020:… Ehsan Bidi, with his background, according to international laws and standards, he is recognised as a refugee. But unfortunately, he has been arrested and his human rights and asylum rights have been violated. He had chosen to remain in your country in the hope of finding a better and… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Survivors of MEK Cult in Albania, Iran Azadi, November 09 2019:… Ehsan Bidi has lived in your country for 6 years, has a 10-year residency permit from the Albanian government and is a refugee by all international standards. He, as a human being, has the right to know why and with what legal authority and with what permission and for… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Eldar Mamedov, Lobelog, December 18 2018:… Vox received a donation of 500.000 euros from MEK, acting under the umbrella of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) This money allowed the party to kick-start its election campaign for the European Parliament. The person who played a key role was Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a veteran Spanish politician. At first sight, Vidal-Quadras and Rajavi… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Faryad Azadi, April 19 2016:… With sadness, we have been informed that the UNHCR office in Tirana, Albania has stopped the monthly payments and housing benefits for political refugee Mr. Ehsan Bidi , Siavosh Restar and several other similar persons who had rejected membership of and separated from the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation in Camp Tirana, Albania It is common knowledge that the… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Massoud Khodabandeh, Top Topics, April 18 2016:… This means that when people like Bidi and Rastar choose to reject membership of this terrorist group, they not only face the wrath of the MEK – which has promised to kill Bidi in particular because he is so vocal about this predicament – but they are also left destitute because the state doesn’t… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Iran Interlink, April 15 2016:… In Tirana, Ehsan Bidi and Siavosh Rastar – who have no accommodation or money because this is supposed to be provided by the MEK which they left – continue to picket outside the UNHRC office. They have now started a hunger strike. This week police harassed them removing their placards and confiscating all their papers. Although… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
Iran Interlink, April 01 2016:… Former MEK member Ehsan Bidi staged a sit-in outside the UNHCR office in Tirana, Albania where he has refugee status. The MEK openly threaten to kill him because he left them. Bidi and other formers were told by the UN office that their funds and accommodation would be stopped from end of March. They have now… Ehsan Bidi Exposing MEK . Press Conference Went Ahead In Open Air
