Tag Archives: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances
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…