Tag Archives: families of MEK hostages in Albania
2021/01/15
Iran Interlink, January 15 2021:... As the number of deaths in the MEK camp at Manez in Albania due to COVID-19 continues to rise, the MEK have appropriated a section of the local cemetery to bury their dead. This week, residents of the town protested that a piece of land which had already been designated for expansion of the cemetery…
2021/01/09
Nejat Society, January 09 2020:... Mr. Mohammad Aq Atabai, whose brother Hamid Mohammad Aq Atabai is being held in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, has lodged a complaint against the Albanian government to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances under the UN Convention against the Protection of All Persons against Forced disappearance. While explaining his brother’s story, he…
2021/01/05
Iran Interlink, January 05 2021:... In 2011, Iraqi police tried to reclaim land that had been illegally gifted to the MEK by Saddam Hussein. MEK leaders sent unarmed rank and file members to ‘resist to the death’. Some threw themselves under armoured vehicles, others were shot attacking the police. Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are responsible for the violence that day.…
2020/12/13
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society, December 13 2020:... On behalf of the suffering families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA), I would like to draw your attention to an emerging humanitarian catastrophe due to the spread of Covid-19 in the MEK’s closed and isolated Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Albania. The alarming news coming from inside…
2020/12/02
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society, December 02 2020:... “The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the State Parties.” The Republic of Albania is a State Party and has signed the Convention. So, the Convention does apply to Albania. It has been noted that all State Parties are obliged to…
2020/12/01
Olsi Jazexhi interviews Yakub Meraji in France, December 01 2020:... Olsi Jazexhi talks to MEK defector Yakub Meraji. In the past days Mr. Meraji has filed a complain with French police against MEK activities in France. He claims that MEK misuse the French state in order to take humanitarian aid and use it to fund their jihadi camp in Albania.…
2020/11/25
Nejat Society, November 25 2020:... I am Fatemeh Pourabdollahi, the sister of Hussein Pourabdollahi. Hussein served in the army in 1986. At that time, Iran was involved in the war with Iraq and Hussein was sent to war zones. There he was abducted and taken hostage by the MEK. In his letters to us, he expressed his nostalgia for the…
2020/11/21
Nejat Society, November 21 2020:... We just want to get a news of my brother; Seyyed Hadi Alavian at MEK camp in Albania. Seyyed Hadi Alavian was captured during Iran-Iraq war. He then was deceived into joining the MEK terror cult while living under severe conditions at Baath regime prisons. His family have had no news from Hadi for several…
2020/11/19
Nejat Society, November 19 2020:... Bagher Mohammadi is the most recent defector of the MEK who, a few weeks ago, escaped the group to enjoy the rest of his life in free world. He was a soldier of the Iranian army in Iran-Iraq war when he was confined by the MEK forces in 1988. He was taken as a hostage…
2020/11/13
Nejat Society, November 13 2020:... Video message of Mr. Kazem Shahidi – brother of Jassem(Lefte) Shahidi who is captive in the MEK Camp in Albania, to Dr. Olsi Jazexhi a human right activist there. Jassem left Iran for India in 1979 before the Iran-Iraq war to continue his education . he was in touch with his family several years in…
2020/11/10
Nejat Society, Tehran, November 10 2020:... We, the family of Rahim Kaiyukan, including his wife Behjat Seddiqi and his children Mozhgan, Mehran, Mohsen, and Leila Kaiyukan and his grandchildren (a total of 12 individuals), want to lodge a complaint against the Albanian government under the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance of which…
2020/11/05
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society, November 05 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.…