Albanian Media

Albanian TV channel SOT7 interview Aldo Sollulari and Erisa Idrizi

Albanian TV channel SOT7 interviewed the cast, director Aldo Sollulari, and actress and translator Erisa Idrizi about the documentary Mother, Love, Separation in a live broadcast.

The 50-minute live broadcast has received 2,700 views and 52 comments on the channel’s Facebook page in less than 24 hours.

https://dld.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Sot7-Nejat-202501.mp4

About his recent interview with this strongly pro-Israel and anti-Islamic Republic TV channel, aldo Sollulari says:

In my recent interview, I made a strong call against terrorism and highlighted the potential threats posed by the MEK group. I stated that they will try to attack me, disrupt festivals, and hinder other activities, but I also emphasized that I have the full support of the Albanian state, and no one can stop me.

Furthermore, I declared that if the United States supports MEK, as MEK claims, then it is backing a dangerous group and engaging in deceitful politics. This message has already sparked significant discussion and reactions online. I have made it clear that a true democracy cannot support such groups, and I will continue my fight against terrorism without fear.

This is a strong message for all, reminding us that we must stand united against any form of terrorism and violence to protect the values of democracy and freedom.

For further information, we invite you to watch this interview, which is currently shaking the internet and igniting powerful debates.

January 12, 2025 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

RTSH Interview with Nejat Society Albania’s media manager

The Albanian Radio and Television (RTSH) interviewed Aldo Sulollari. The morning show hosted by Angelo Shkreli, received the journalist Aldo Sulollari to talk about his latest projects.

The interview went on with a lot of humor but also spicy moments about the media and social projects that the journalist Aldo Sulollari has recently promoted to the Albanian public.

In some parts, it has been talked about the lifestyle of the famous journalist in the United States of America, but also a return to do media projects in the national media in Albania.
A very interesting point of this interview was Aldo’s professional anniversary, which this year marks 10 years of being part of the Albanian media, explaining that his professional life is constantly divided between the Albanian media and the focus on American platforms.

When asked by the host about his social engagements, he explained that when social activities are centered on an individual, this initiative becomes very significant for the life of this person, but also for the community to whom these social activities are transmitted, but when these activities come from outside the country, they become more solid and important, but also very interesting for the Albanian public.

Aldo explains that he has been part of a social project of Nejat Society Albania for more than 2 years now. Aldo Sulollari explains about the project:
“We are creating everything from scratch, based on every normative legal provision. Nejat in Albania, which is known in Albanian as the “rescue” Society, as the name itself is directly twinned with the founding society located in Iran, which was created by mothers whose children are in the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization known as the MEK camp.

We were in another association with another logo, but the interest was to show in the most direct way that now is the time to save those Iranians locked in that camp and to show that life is beautiful and must be lived. In Iran, we are in the year 1403, while we are in 2024 here, and it is a pity to discuss that there are still such false democracies, where the family according to the MEK is the enemy and you should not communicate with it.

In the MEK organization, all human rights are violated, and moreover, they came to Albania with a humanitarian shelter status, where according to the law, by the Albanian institutions, that camp must be monitored to understand that there are many legal violations and the people are not living free.

There are many mothers who mourn every day for the fate of their children, who have joined a camp, to go to a European country for material benefits, promising that they will have a life with democratic principles, but they’ve been stuck there for years.”

Journalists asked Sulollari for more details about the projects of Nejat Society and how it operates in Albania for its members who have left the mujahedin-e Khalq:

Aldo Sulollari answered:
“I met them by chance, as you invited me to the show tonight, I went as a journalist 2 years ago for an interview, and since that day, they have become part of my professional and personal life. A boy named Mehdi, who spoke my language very well, made me understand that these people have come here to integrate, to get a job, create their families and live life from scratch. As before, and now we are creating activities grand and modest, all kinds of activities, we try to give our best, with a team of Iranians and a team of Albanians, united together, with the support of Albanian institutions, we are giving our best every day to integrate this community in our country, but also to bring the voice of parents in Iran, for whom they suffer every day the fate of not being able to contact with their children who are in Camp Ashraf3.

If you allow me, I want to say hello to a member of the Nejat association, who was previously a nurse, doctor, dentist, and when he came to our society, he even became a writer, writing his life story, leaving his mark through literature. Khalil Ansarian, an artist at heart, who loves life, work, and even his Albanian partner. He has told every detail of his life in the MEK organization, in his book.

Inspired by this, now the Nejat Society has made it possible for the Albanian public through 3 other Albanian writers, to bring to the Albanian readers 3 new publications which are different from each other, but with a single mission to leave a witness generation for this history that has been marked in the lives of these members and to make possible and transmit the voice of mothers in Iran.”

Furthermore, during the interview, there were many jokes, where the host of the program was sneezing, and Aldo asked him if he was allergic to the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization.
In this interview and Aldo’s statements, there was also the expectation for the near future to create a media program in the Albanian media this time, to be closer to the Albanian public.

The interview was closed with a great message for Albanian citizens and also for Albanian institutions.

April 13, 2024 0 comments

Albania

Illegal expulsion of former members into Greece by the MEK

According to a report by Ora News on April 6, 2023, 10 illegal immigrants trying to cross the Sarandë border (Albania to Greece) were arrested.

According to this news, the police arrested the Albanian driver of a van near the border while he was hiding 10 illegal immigrants in his vehicle. These immigrants were trying to go to Greece illegally from Albania. They were stopped and searched at a place called Qafe Bote near the border point. Two of these foreigners were Iranians who are said to have been former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

Illegal expulsion of former members into Greece by the Rajavi Cult

It should be noted that in many cases the Rajavi Cult has tried to illegally send its former members to Greece so that they do not stay in Albania and expose their lies to the public opinion. Currently, a large number of ex-members of the Rajavi cult, who were promised to be sent to Germany and other Western European countries, are wandering in Greece.

According to the information obtained, more than 200 people are living in the exit unit of the closed and remote MEK camp in Albania, and they have been promised to be sent to Europe if they do not leave the camp now, which apparently aims to make them wander along the border of Greece with the smuggler so that they don’t go to ASILA and lead a quiet and comfortable life.

April 8, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mojahedin / The father rejected, the mother’s writes to her daughter

The saga continues of an Iranian couple who want to meet their daughter who is a member of the Mojahedin (MEK) who are housed in Albania

Editorial

TIRANA – The saga continues of the Iranian couple seeking to meet their daughter who is a member of the Mojahedin (MEK) who are housed in Albania. A few days ago, Somayeh accused her father of being an Iranian agent, and through a letter asked Minister Xhafaj to expel him from Albania as he posed a danger.

Mostafa Mohammadi, the father of the Iranian, says his daughter is being held against her will inside the Mojahedin camp in Manez, and he has lodged a complaint with the police in the city. A TV report today provided the full denunciation by the 62-year-old who says that his daughter was held in Iraq by force in the MEK organization.

Mohammadi also reveals that MEK has also held his son at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, where members of the Iranian opposition against the Iranian regime were housed. Faced with the situation where the daughter accuses her father of being an Iranian agent, today her mother, Mahboubeh (Robabe) Hamza, has written a letter asking her to agree to meet with her mother rather than her father that she accuses.

Part of Somayeh’s mother’s letter:

O you crazy radicals! You MEK have imprisoned my daughter, radicalized her and pushed her toward violent extremism, made her deny her parents, because it is not logical that a normal person who has not seen their parents for 20 years would not want to at least meet with them, telling themselves that ‘I do not want to get out of this notorious camp, I do not want to live freely in Canada, but I want to do jihad against Iran for Maryam Rajavi’…

You MEK took my boy when he was 15 and I saved him when he was 20 years old. You made my son mad and for two years he was treated by a psychiatrist in Canada because you had made him crazy and you terrorized him…

However, now I publicly invite you to meet me. If you really believe that your father is an Iranian agent – even though you’ve been isolated for 20 years and don’t know where your father has been and what your father has been doing in these 20 years – can’t we meet together?…

Let’s have dinner together so I can see you with my own eyes and kiss you, then let the MEK die from that. If you can’t leave the camp, there is still a chance! Get a phone and dial the number 112 and call the police to come and save you! Come and meet me daughter. For the sake of your mother… Be brave and come out of the MEK camp. There are no Iranian agents in Tirana who want to kill you. The Albanians are good people. They stop me daily in the street and tell us they are sorry for us and how they want you to be free. Prophet Mohammad says that Paradise is under the feet of the mother. Will you leave the MEK’s devils to meet me?

The full letter of the mother of Somayeh to MEK and her daughter

MEK Organization!

I, Mahboubeh (Robabe) Hamza, mother of Somayeh, am writing this letter. I am publishing this letter publicly to ask you to let my daughter go free. You know that we are in Albania and not in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq! Albania is a free European country, where issues are settled by law, not bullets, violence and war like in Saddam’s Iraq! Here you all have taken refuge on humanitarian grounds and are asylum seekers, you are not a paramilitary organization to treat your members as soldiers!

Please, stop!

Stop, writing letters in our daughter’s name!

Enough! Your constant accusation that we are Iranian agents, conspirators, and so on, is unjust since we have no such purpose, except to unite the family unfairly broken by you in 1997!

Enough that you use your agents to access any state office in Albania to prevent me, Somayeh’s mother, from meeting my daughter!

Your agents and subordinates attack us in every corner of Tirana with terror charges and physical attacks only because I want to see my daughter. You are burning because of that!

What did you do to my daughter you crazy radicals?

Why are you threatening my daughter you will kill her parents? Witnesses from your Manza camp, people who have abandoned your jihad and live in Tirana, tell us that you are mistreating my daughter. You are pressurising her to accuse us, her family, as agents. I met my daughter in Iraq in 2004 when the US Marines gave me permission to do so, and she was desperate and wanted to flee from that damned war and from the military organization that mistreated and continues to mistreat its members in front of her eyes all over the world. She was trembling with fear and I her mother embraced her constantly to calm her down. My daughter wrote more letters to me through the US Marines asking for help from your organization that only wants fighting, jihad and blood.

Why do you isolate my daughter so that no one can meet her, neither we as her parents, nor our lawyers, journalists, or the Albanian public who are interested in knowing what kind of criminals you are for destroying a family, who keep our daughter hostage and want to make her a suicide bomber in Iran or Iraq? Frankly, why did you radicalize my daughter – at least in the letters you write – talking only about agents, fighters, killers, Iran, mullahs etc? Are you so crazy? Did Massoud Rajavi’s command not to marry, not to know love, become so bad that you dream only of war and blood?

You took my boy when he was 15 and I saved him when he was 20 years old. You made my son mad and for two years he was treated by a psychiatrist in Canada because you had made him crazy and you terrorized him. Now he has a family, has an education, has a profession in Canada. Yes, and now my daughter. Why can’t she come to Canada to be with her family? Why do you radicalize my daughter and keep her hostage in your camp while your leader Maryam Rajavi and her family live as royalty in Paris? Why can’t I have my daughter free in Toronto like Maryam Rajavi in Paris? Why do Maryam Rajavi and her family live in luxury, while my daughter lives in the prison camp in Manez, in Durrës? If my daughter really wants to do jihad against Iran, why not allow her at least to live freely in Tirana? How much anger do you have?

Who are you to deprive our daughter of this right? Why do you destroy our family and why do you not let our daughter have a family and a normal life like everyone else? Here we are in Albania and not in Iraq. Why are you pushing my daughter to carry out political and terrorist activities against a foreign state? My daughter is not related to Iran! Her homeland is Canada. Why do you not allow her to pursue the Canadian dream but want to lead her as a jihadist to make war on Iran? Why doesn’t Maryam Rajavi go to Jihad in Iran, but she will send my daughter?

We and the rest of her family left Iran for political asylum and we have a very good life in Canada. We do not care about what’s going on with politics anywhere. Every effort we have made to save our daughter is our legitimate right. You, MEK, unjustly denied us the right to parent her when my daughter was 17 years old. You have left my daughter without an education, without a Canadian passport, without a family, no children, no grandchildren, no life with all her friends. You do not let my daughter marry, have a friend or a life like all women, dress in beautiful clothes like her friends, but keep her dressed in military uniform all day long. Keep her isolated in your infamous prison in Manzas.

You have left my daughter without access to the internet, without TV, without education and without reading because you are all in a prison in a free country like Albania. Don’t you feel bad about what you do to our daughter, that you kidnapped our child? Do you realize that Allah will condemn this for ever and a day, even if your masters protect you from the law? Let other families understand what life is like when you have the slogan: “Families are agents of the Iranian regime,” which you say in the group a few times a day as a form of obedience to your organization.

From her friends who have left your group, I learned today how you threaten my daughter if she doesn’t do what you ask for. You do not let her leave the camp, make a free life, but keep her there as a prisoner inside walls guarded by armed guards in the middle of a European country. Why do you do this? Why do not you let her out of the camp? Why can’t I, her mother, meet my daughter oh criminals and murderers? Why do you put politics in between us when parenting is the legitimate right of anyone and nobody can deny it to anyone?

Somayeh! My daughter! The light of my eyes! Owner of my life!

Now I’m writing to you, since I have no other way to communicate with you, although I know that MEK may not even tell you about this letter. But I’m making it public and bringing it to the media so that maybe someone finds it and passes it on to you!

My heart Somayeh,

I am your mother Mahboubeh Robabe Hamza and I want to meet with you. I am the woman who fed you at my breast, I held you in the crook of my arm. You are my flesh and blood.

I have come to Albania. I’m in Tirana, a few miles from you and I want to see you. I want to kiss you. To hold you. I want to have you near. I love you more than my life. I want you to be happy, to be good, to enjoy life, to be with your family, sisters and brothers, to share with the moments of our lives. We have never quit asking for you and are never going to stop, not without seeing you. I’m getting old, I am getting tired, but life is not worth living without seeing you.

I know the letters you wrote against your dad were not written by you, but your jihadist commanders frightened you with threats of “agents”, “the Ministry of Intelligence”, “the Iranian regime”, “mullahs”, and so on. I know, my daughter, that you’re scared and that you do not understand what’s going on because you have not seen daylight with your own eyes outside the MEK military camp for 20 years. I know that the jihadist commanders every day punish you with their fairy tales.

However, now I publicly invite you to meet me.

If you really believe that your father is an Iranian agent – even though you’ve been isolated for 20 years and don’t know where your father has been and what your father has been doing in these 20 years – can’t we meet together?

I am not an Iranian agent and I do not even know about politics. What do you say? Let’s leave your dad on the sidelines, and Iran and Maryam Rajavi and fighting and the whole world, and just meet as mother and daughter? What do you say?

You are well aware how as your mother, who raised you with sacrifices, it plagued my heart when I saw you trembling with fear in Iraq, how I feared that your organization would kill you because you met with us, your parents.

I do not believe the accusations against your father are in your name. I do not believe you are the one who writes them, but those pseudo-letters scary charges are made against your father. The group that prevents us from meeting you attacked your father two days ago. Did they tell you? The Mojahedin beat him!

After the attack, in the middle of the day, in the middle of Tirana, your father and I ended up in the hospital and then in the police station. While we were in the police station [giving evidential statements of complaint], the Mojahedin, under the orders of Commander Behzad Saffari, attacked police station number 4 and called us terrorists and demanded the police imprison us. Do you know about this?

And the day after the attack they sent a second letter to the media in your name.

My daughter, let’s assume you do not love your dad since he’s a bastard, an agent, a murderer, etc. the slanders that staged letter. However, let’s not disown him! (Inshallah MEK does not kill us!)

Yes, your mother, will you not meet with her? I came from Canada for you and left off earning money to see you. Well, from Canada, Morteza and Mohammed ask night and day about you. I miss and love you and want to play with you as we did when you were young. Your friends from the Etobicoke Collegiate Institute are also wondering about you and wanting to meet you. What do you say, will you leave the MEK to meet me and speak on the phone with your brothers in Canada?

Please, if you are the one who wrote those letters and if the MEK would allow you to leave the camp freely, without the supervision of that dreadful commander Behzad Saffari, come and meet me. I live near the parliament in Tirana. The Albanian police will protect us! There will be no Iranian agents to kill you because there are no killers in the country because Albanian police guard us because there is peace and security here!

Let’s have dinner together so I can see you with my own eyes and kiss you, then let the MEK die from that. If they do not allow you out of the camp, there is another opportunity! Get a phone and dial the number 112 and call the police to come and save you!

Come and meet me daughter. For the sake of your mother, be brave and come out of the MEK camp. There are no Iranian agents in Tirana who want to kill you. The Albanians are good people. They stop me daily in the street and tell us they are sorry for us and how they want you to be free.

Prophet Mohammad says that Paradise is under the feet of the mother. Will you leave the MEK’s devils to meet me?

May Allah Keep you Daughter!

Your mother in flesh and blood,

Mahboubeh (Robabe) Hamza

Shqiptarja, Tirana, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink

August 4, 2018 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

The girl is held hostage by Mojahedin Khalq

One day after the allegations by Iranian Mojahed resident in Albania, Somayeh Mohammadi, against her father, the father has reacted. Mostafa Mohammadi has sent a letter to Minister Fatmir Xhafaj asking for help to free the girl.

One day after the media in Tirana distributed an email from the Mojahed resident Somayeh Mohammadi, addressed to Minister Xhafaj, accusing her father, Mostafa Mohammadi, of coming to Albania to carry out acts against the Iranian group, her father has reacted. A copy of a letter that the father of the girl, Mostafa Mohammadi, has sent to Interior Minister Fatmir Xhafaj was delivered to shqiptarja.com’s newsdesk.

Somaye Mohamamdi, hostage of the MEK since she was 17

Mostafa says he is a Canadian citizen and that the MEK organization in Tirana is holding his 38-year-old daughter hostage. The father says the charges are not made by his daughter but by MEK. Mostafa lists some of the facts he says shows that the letter that was released yesterday in the media was not written by their daughter.

In the letter, Somayeh said her father, Mostafa, is an agent of the Iranian Interior Ministry, and has used her to make money.

The girl’s father’s letter:

Letter to the Minister of Interior of Albania, Fatmir Xhafaj for the freedom of Somayeh Mohammedi

Dear Minister,

We, the parents of Somayeh Mohammadi, a Canadian citizen, are very angry and insulted by the treatment that is being given to our daughter by the media, by the competent Albanian bodies as well as the MEK organization in Albania which holds our daughter hostage. The letter they sent you on July 8, 2018 is a criminal and slanderous letter.

We came to Albania, enjoying our privileges as Canadian citizens, with the sole purpose of meeting our daughter who has been held hostage by the MEK organization since 1997. We have no political agenda or policy, we just want to meet our daughter.

But this request is not facilitated by the MEK organization that has held our daughter hostage since when she was 17 years old, who was a minor when she was taken from Canada by cheating and telling us she would go to Iraq for only 2 weeks – they showed us and the two-way ticket. We did not give any written permission nor did we write to appoint any proxy guardian. But at that time we believed that MEK was a democratic organization. After our daughter did not return, this organization deceived us with various reasons why. We were forced to seek help from the Canadian authorities and, thanks to their intervention, were able to save our son, Mohammad Mohammadi, who was a Canadian citizen and who now lives with us happily on Richmond Hill near Toronto.

We emigrated to Canada as political refugees in 1994. We left Iran and headed for Turkey and later to Canada. All the family were together. We were all resident in Canada and were granted Canadian passports under Canadian asylum law, except for our daughter Somayeh, who after gaining her residency was held hostage by the organization as a minor in 1997.

Our attempts to rescue our girl from this organization did not stop, just as the aggressive allegations of this organization against us, the various physical assaults – in Paris in 2015 and 2016 – have been documented, and we will not give up our intent to rescue our daughter from this extremist and violent group because we are parents. Because it is legitimate that you want to have your daughter at home. It is good to see that she is free, married, enjoying her life in freedom and democracy, and not under the pressure of anyone.

From various others who have managed to leave this organization, we have learned that they were subjected to pressures, threats to kill their families, threats to internally imprison and physically torture them as MEK did with other members under the same conditions when they wanted to leave this extremist organization. We have learned that the MEK’s camp is guarded by armed security companies and anyone who leaves without permission and escapes, the group leaders say they will be targeted by the guards. For these reasons, our daughter does not have the opportunity to leave this camp in Albania and does not enjoy the freedoms that a free person enjoys.

Minister Xhafaj, and other interested parties,

We do not believe that the letter that is addressed to you is our daughter’s letter for several reasons:

The letter is dated July 8, 2018. We arrived on July 5, 2018 in Tirana, so how did our daughter learn that we were here when we had not met anyone yet.
Our daughter says she had wanted to leave while she was a minor when she had gone and we have evidence of how this organization enticed her to return. That is why, when we met with her in Iraq 2003 she told us, rescue me from here but be careful they don’t kill me. Why did she write a letter to the US marines asking us to rescue her?
She says she wrote a book accusing us of being Iranian agents, even the Albanian media say we are getting our (her parents’) visas from Iran. How does our daughter have access to these kinds of documents that are official and personal? Or is it the organization that wrote the letter and only their cooperation with different regimes and intelligence agencies could provide them with these data. However, it is not factual to accuse us of anything politically since we do not carry out any political activity related to Iran otherwise we would have lost the right to asylum in Canada or we would have been prosecuted by the Canadian authorities.
If it is true that our daughter says she will remain in this organization by her own free will, how can we believe this, when there is no psychologist in the world to confirm such free will as normal or normal mental development for a person over 20 years without meeting with her family. What did MEK make out of our daughter? How has it managed to eradicate the feelings of love and care for her family? The accusations in Somayeh’s letter resemble the accusations of Enver Hoxha’s regime in Albania against the class enemies who were accused of being agents and whose children were forced to curse and renounce their parents.
I can provide photos before and after her membership in MEK, that show that Somayeh had a strong relationship with me as her father and with the other family members. So we cannot accept and believe that these are the true thoughts of our daughter. Our girl who is kept in isolation, fearful of Iranian bogeymen, blatantly violent with the ideas of radicalism and violent extremism, is the victim of a very dangerous sect.
We believe and have witnesses from the ex-Mojahedin who have left the extremist organization and live in Tirana, that our daughter lives in conditions of torture and inhuman treatment by the MEK jihadists. Therefore we request that you guarantee by law, constitution and international conventions; freedom of movement for our daughter; prohibition of torture and ill-treatment of a human being by a foreign organization within Albanian territory, as this is a legal obligation of your Ministry, as well as relieving you of the allegations of support for inhumane acts that this organization carries out within Albanian territory, in violation of all international human rights conventions signed by your state.

Mr. Minister, we ask for your help and ask this:

What is the reason we cannot meet with our daughter? Is this not deprivation of freedom of movement? Why do the Albanian authorities not prevent the violation of human rights by a foreign organization within Albanian territory? Why are we, as Canadian parents, treated as criminals and this organization is favoured by meeting at the directorate level in your ministry while we are deprived of this right? How can the pledge hold more than 2 parents? How can you tolerate a jihadist organization accusing two elderly parents of being agents, Western citizens who want to meet their own relative?

We have not carried out any political activity within your country and there are no grounds for slander against us in the hope we get frustrated and afraid so that we will leave your country without meeting our daughter.

Please allow us to meet our daughter outside the territory of these jihadist kidnappers! Allow us to exercise our legitimate right of parental responsibility guaranteed by any national and international law.

Honorably Yours,

Shqiptarja, Translated by Iran Interlink

July 24, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Exclusive /Mojahed’s parents say

Yesterday the media published a letter to Interior Minister Fatmir Xhafaj, signed by a 38-year-old woman named Somayeh Mohammadi. The letter states that Mohammadi is a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and that she remains voluntarily in the Mojahedin camp in the district of Durres. This letter says Mohammadi’s father is an Iranian agent and has come to Albania for specific missions and not to meet her.

But the parents of Somayeh Mohammadi, tell a different version. In an interview for TPZ.AL , they say their daughter has been kidnapped by this organization and they are in Durres to return her to Canada. According to Somayeh’s parents, the letter published in the media to the Interior Minister was not written by their daughter but by MEK.

Mostafa Mohammedi and Mahboubeh Hamza
Canadian citizens, parents of Somayeh Mohammedi

Q – Mr Mostafa and Mrs Mahboubeh, the MEK has distributed a letter to the media and accused you of being Iranian agents. Who are you and where are you from?

We’re Mostafa Mohammadi and Mahboubeh Hamze. We are the parents of Somayeh Mohammadi. We have lived in Canada since 1994. Our daughter was kidnapped by the Iranian Mojahedin terrorist organization in 1997. She was abducted together with our son Mohammad Mohammedi. Somayeh was at that time a child and went to the Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Canada.

Our children were kidnapped by the MEK because their activists invited them to Iraq for a two-week visit. But our children did not return. MEK kept Somayeh and our son Mohmmad hostage.

Since that year we have been undertaking a great media and legal struggle to extricate our kids held hostage by the terrorists. Fortunately, in 1999, we managed to save our son from MEK in Iraq and brought him to Canada.

Our son, Mohammad is now working as a manager for a gas company in Toronto. He is married and has a happy life.

But unfortunately, we have not yet managed to save our daughter from the extremist MEK organization.

I work in construction in Toronto, while I, Mahboubeh, am a care nurse for the elderly in Toronto. We are honest people who want to have our daughter, who was abducted when she was 17 years old, back home. The Mojahedin have destroyed their lives, left them without schooling, without marriage, without family, and have radicalized them and turned them into jihadists.

Q – In the Albanian media, MEK has issued a letter on behalf of Somayeh Mohammadi – who identifies herself as a member of the Iranian opposition sheltering in Albania – addressed the Interior Minister of Albania Fatmir Xhafaj. She accuses her father of being an Iranian intelligence officer who has come to Albania to attack the Mojahedin. Why these charges? Can you please explain to us how long you have been in Albania and what is the reason for your visit here?

That letter was not written by our daughter. Our daughter is MEK’s hostage. She has no freedom of religion and thought. She is a prisoner in the Manze jihadist camp. And the letter she sent to Minister Xhafaj was written by the extremist group’s leaders. Our daughter is held with psychological terror. The group’s leaders, who are masters of deception and indoctrination, frighten her and the other members. They say Iran is going to kill you, Iran has brought agents, if you’re out of the camp you are dead, and so on. They say that the only solution is to stay with us in the camp and join jihad against Iran.

As you can see we are old and older. We are not terrorists like the Mojahedin, nor Iranian intelligence agents. We live in Toronto, Canada and not in Tehran. We want to take our daughter to Toronto, and not to Tehran.

We are in Albania for 19 days. We are here to ask for help from the Albanian authorities to let us meet with our daughter who is held hostage by the Iranian jihadist group. We do not want to take our daughter to Canada against her will. We just want to talk to her alone. Let us show that we live in a beautiful and democratic country and ask her in private – away from the threats and brainwashing of MEK jihadists – if she wants to come with us to Canada to live in freedom and in democracy, or to stay in Manze camp, isolated by barbed wire and held as a hostage to be a terrorist in Iran.

The Mojahedin are vicious people. They lie. They not only robbed us of our daughter but now have no shame and accuse us of being agents of Iran. They are people who have a lot of blood on their hands. They are terrorists and killers.

Q -Your daughter stated that she had voluntarily left her family 20 years ago to take part in the cause for Iran’s freedom? What is the truth?

Our daughter is hostage to MEK as was her brother. If you look on the internet you will see that MEK has taken many children as child soldiers. Just as if ISIS gets a little child, indoctrinates it and then turns it into a suicide bomber.

We do not want our daughter to be a suicide bomber for Maryam Rajavi, the MEK leader, and to go and kill people in Iran.

MEK is not an Iranian opposition group. They are terrorists. They are not democratic, and the people of Iran accuse the MEK of being terrorists, murderers and traitors who have served Saddam Hussein and have killed over 17,000 Iranian citizens. If MEK were a democratic organization, they would allow their members to feely meet with their families. Our daughter does not know the world outside because she has been imprisoned for 20 years.

If our daughter wants to be part of the Iranian opposition, she can do this in peaceful ways. Let’s go to Canada and do that right there. But MEK does not let her go free.

But we do not want to deal with MEK. They are fearsome killers. We just want our daughter to be released from the prison camp in Manze and to meet with her in private. To kiss her, to cry with her, and to invite her to come with us to Canada. If she wants to be part of the Iranian opposition, she can do it freely from Canada and not from the jihadist prison camp.

Q –The girl also accuses you of some concrete attacks on MEK’s Camp Ashraf in Iraq?

Firstly, this is not our daughter, but the terrorist leader of the group. Second, what do you think? Would Canada and America leave me alone if we were to attack MEK? Or if I were an Iranian agent? MEK are the most diverse killer, suicidal, and terrorist organization America uses against Iran. We do not want to deal with the MEK nor the policy of Iran or America.

We want peace! As a minimum, we want our kidnapped daughter to meet with us. We want to take her to Canada to live, in a democracy, and not to deal with violent extremism and radicalism.

Q-What are your relations with the current government in Iran?

No relationship. We are Canadian citizens. We are political asylum-seekers in Canada and we got this asylum by fleeing from Iran . We will take our daughter to Canada, not to Iran. To Toronto, not to Tehran!

Q – Have you been contacted by the Albanian authorities about the reasons of your visit to Albania?

Yes, the police have stopped us two times. The first time at the airport and the second time when we came to the hotel and they accompanied us to Police Station 1 in Tirana. They asked us why we are in Albania.

MEK has gone crazy because of our presence here. And for this reason they are terrorizing the Albanian government with letters, complaints, and lies etc. about why they do not want us to meet with our daughter. They know that if we take somebody to Canada, there will be a few hundred men and women who are held hostage by MEK in Albania who will say that we also want to be free. Let’s abandon jihad! Up until now in Albania 400 people have left MEK. This has horrified Maryam Rajavi, so they have brought the Mojahedin to Manze and locked them up in the camp.

Albania is a free country. European. The Mojahedin members want to abandon jihad and embrace democracy and freedom. That is why MEK does not want us to meet our daughter.

But we, inshallah, will meet our daughter and we will go back to our place of freedom in Canada.

We hope and pray that MEK will not kill us because we want to meet our daughter. We hope and pray that the Albanian authorities will protect us and will help us to meet our daughter away from the terrorist presence.

TPZ, Tirana, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink