Tag Archives: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances
2021/06/02
Nejat Society, June 02 2021:... Rahim Kiukan’s family seeks help from Albanian government officials as well as the international community The family of Rahim Kiukan, who is based in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) camp in Albania, has written a letter to the Albanian Prime Minister asking for help with his situation in the country. The text of the…
2021/04/03
Nejat Society, April 03 2021:... A number of defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) took action to denounce the group for kidnapping another former member, Hadi SaniKhani. Defectors believe that the MEK leaders have probably smuggled Sanikhani to France territory. They warned the French authorities and citizens about the MEK’s unlawful activities…
2021/03/30
Nejat Society, March 30 2021:... Ahmad Paydar was captured in 1984 on the Iranian Defense Front against the invasion of Iraq. Until 1988, he was in various prisoner-of-war camps in Iraq and communicated with his family through letters during his captivity. Until in August of the same year, we learned through the International Committee of the Red Cross that he…
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…
2021/02/28
Nejat Society, Tehran, February 28 2021:... My wife, who is seriously ill, and I ask you to act immediately to find out about my forced disappearance son in Albania. The Albanian government must be held accountable. I am impatiently waiting for an answer from you to ask the Albanian government where Hadi Sani Khani is now and how his condition…
2021/01/21
Nejat Society, January 21 20201:... My brother is currently stationed in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania. He was captured many years ago in the Iraq-Iran war, and we later learned that he had been transferred to Camp Ashraf by MEK forces. We have not met him in all these years, we have not even heard his voice and…
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…
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…
2020/11/25
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…