Tag Archives: Amnesty International
2020/09/27
Iran Interlink, September 27 2020:... In this case, a report about the massacre containing flawed information, created by AI’s Iran Department has been repeatedly published over many years without correction. This report was recently amplified by Radio Farda in English, but the bigger problem lies in the Farsi sphere. On several occasions this report has been used as the basis…
2020/07/26
"Tehran Times" and "Iran International" (Saudi outlet from London), July 26 2020:... London-based TV channel was strongly criticized for its live coverage of a gathering of the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq) terrorist group, which is also known as “Monafeqin” (hypocrites) in Iran. “Unfortunately, we saw in recent days that one of the satellite channels named Iran International, which is broadcast by…
2020/05/10
Gjergji Thanasi, Balkans Post, May 10 2020 :... I love my country and I consider the MEK a security threat to my country,” investigative journalist Gjergji Thanasi tells the Balkans Post in an exclusive interview. I have chosen to do my bit for my country regarding the MEK threat to Albania and Albanians,” said Gjergji, who lives in Durres county…
2019/04/30
Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner, April 30 2019:... Iranian Mujahedin, or MEK. It was listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization between 1997 and 2012, is Marxist, Its logo is the communist sickle, but the MEK uses old-fashioned greenbacks in large amounts to secure its American lobbyists. Luminaries who have spoken for the MEK include senior U.S. political figures such as…
2019/04/15
Massoud Khodabandeh, Middle East Strategy Consultants, April 14 2019:... In July 2018 I wrote an article for the Balkans Post titled ‘MEK rebrands by assassinating unwanted members’ in which I brought up the case of Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi as one of many examples in which the Mojahedin Khalq have got rid of an affiliated disaffected operative to 1- Cleanse themselves…
2019/01/08
Nejat Society, January 08 2019:... When approached in person, Amnesty International officials have not accepted responsibility for the content of this report and have instead referred complainants to the authors and asked them to send their complaints to the writers directly, which is quite odd. Amnesty International did not deny the role of the MEK and Shadi Sadr. One of the central…
2018/12/19
Families of Mojahedin Khalq (MEK, MKO) members, Nejat Society, December 19 2018:... After the fall of Saddam Hussein AI failed to say a single word except to promote MEK as a ‘human rights’ group. In 2005, Human Rights Watch wrote a damning report on the human rights abuses conducted by MEK against their own members. In 2009 the RAND Corporation conducted an in-depth study…
2018/12/13
David William Pear, The Greenville Post, December 13 2018:... The fact that Mujahideen-e-Khalq, MEK has killed US citizens in terrorist attacks did not hinder some US politicians from accepting large speaking fees at their conventions, even when MEK was still on the US terrorist list. The US has also instigated instability inside Iran and supported external attacks by terrorist groups such as Mujahideen-e-Khalq,…
2014/12/19
Iran Interlink, December 19 2014:... A group of ex-MEK members wrote an open letter to Hassibeh Haj Sahrai, deputy head of Amnesty International. They say that over the years, as AI publishes its statements, they more and more resemble the statements published by the MEK about Iraq. AI appears to be taking a political stance alongside the MEK without ... Rajavi…