Tag Archives: MEK defectors
2021/10/21
Nejat Society, October 21 2021:... Former member of the Mujahedin Khalq, Ehsan Bidi, was released from jail in Albania. Although the Albanian police had not explained his charge, he was kept in jail for two years. Ehsan Bidi was welcome by the defectors of the MEK in Tirana, Albania. They celebrated his freedom in a party in Hassan Heirani’s café,…
2021/10/12
Nejat Society, October 12 2021:... “For a period of time, I had to spy on defectors,” Rafiq admits. “Until the day I ran into Sarafraz in the Cafe. It was his birthday. I joined him and other defectors who were having a party in the Café but then I was punished by the MEK agents. They told me that I…
2021/05/12
Nejat Society, Tirana, Albania, May 12 2021:... The defectors seem to be very grateful to any joyful moment of their life in the free world. They cherish the Albanian journalist, Gjergjy Thanasi who gave them colored Esther eggs in one of their gatherings in coffeeshop. It is one of the few Albanian religious traditions that survived communism. Grandmothers dyed eggs…
2021/05/10
Nejat Society, May 10 2021:... leaders of the organization, under the pretext of financial problems, forced the members to grow a plant called “Mallow” in the Camp Ashraf in order to provide at least one meal per day. Meanwhile, after the expulsion of the MEK from Iraq, many luxerious facilities of a lavish life style were found at the residence…
2021/05/07
Mehr News, May 07 2021:... Setting up a tent in front of the Grand Hotel Wien, where the nuclear negotiations are ongoing, a small group affiliated with Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization (MKO also known as MEK), insulted Iran's negotiation team. This is while intensive negotiations continue between Iran and P4+1 to reach an agreement on the full revival of JCPOA…
2021/04/28
Mehr News, April 28 2021:... He further pointed out that today martyrs like Soleimani, Hejazi, and Sayyad Shirazi, who served as the commander of the Ground Force and was assassinated by terrorist MKO in 1999, are a role model for the young generation, declaring that the IRGC and the regular Army have joined hands to continue defending the country and…
2021/03/18
RUPTLY, March 17 2021:... Former members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) reacted outside a Tehran courthouse on Wednesday after the organisation "was condemned and obliged to pay for financial and moral damages" to them, according to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs, themselves former members of the cult-like group, allege they were captured during the Iraq-Iran war and were forced…
2021/03/09
Manouchehr Abdi, Nejat Society, March 09 2021:... A close and sincere friend of mine is Mr. Hadi Sani Khani, a resident of Tirana and a former member of the MEK, who left the organization in 2016. The MEK paid him an asylum pension for a short time, but when he refused to accept an offer to work with the organization…
2021/03/09
Geopolitica and Press TV, Tehran, March 09 2021:... According to Batool Soltani, another member of the leadership council of the group, women in this cult are deprived of the most basic rights, they do not have the right to marry, let alone choose a husband, in this cult because having a social life, having private things like a private bedroom,…
2021/02/28
Iran Interlink, February 28 2021:... The recent disappearance of former MEK member Hadi Sani Khani from Albania is not a new phenomenon as this Special Briefing shows. Ten years ago, Ambassador Daniel Fried, US Special Advisor for Camp Ashraf in Iraq, acknowledged that Camp Ashraf had been “a kind of independent, self-governed, autonomous, extraterritorial facility… for many years”. This state…
2021/02/23
Nejat Society, February 23 2021:... The recently published letter on the MEK websites, allegedly signed by Hadi Sanikhani, has raised concerns over the fate of this former member of the group. The letter was published by the so-called Security and Counterterrorism Committee of the National Council of Resistance which is the political vitrine of the Cult of Rajavi (aka Mujahedin…
2021/02/20
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society, February 20 2021:... Ebrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of Nejat Society, Iran, wrote a letter to the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, calling on her to raise with the Albanian authorities the issue of abuse of the most basic human rights of members and former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in Albania. EU…