Ebrahim Khodabande

Ceo of Nejat Society pens letter to the German Embassy in Tehran

His Excellency Ambassador Hans-Udo Muzel
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Tehran Iran

Your Excellency
Greetings and Regards

On behalf of the Nejat Society in Iran, I would like to draw your attention to an important issue regarding the annual meeting of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in Berlin in June 2024.
Nejat Society represents the families of members of the MEK who are trapped in a remote and isolated camp in Albania. The MEK does not allow its members to communicate with the outside world, especially with family and friends.
According to people who managed to escape from this camp, the most basic human rights of the members are violated and the European Convention on Human Rights is systematically violated in the MEK camp in Albania.
You may know that on June 20, 2023, the Albanian police tried to search the MEK camp in Albania with a court order. Members of the MEK were ordered by the leaders to violently resist the legal actions of the police and were ordered not to allow the police to take away the computers and servers undamaged.
The result was that a large number of people were injured on both sides, and one member of the MEK who had a fake identity died of a heart attack (Abdul-Wahab Faraji-Nezhad, known as Commander Afshin, with fake identity documents under the name of Ali Mostashari). The MEK falsely claimed that the Albanian government did this with the cooperation of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This is despite the fact that this organization has used the hospitality and facilities of Albania for 7 years and has systematically targeted the physical and psychological security of its trapped members and their waiting families from Albania. Similar cases have happened in the past in Iraq, US, UK, France and Germany. They have always created problems for the host countries.
You should also know that this terrorist cult is not allowed to hold its annual meeting in France, which it used to perform every year, and Albania, where it has a large presence, and other countries also prevent the entry of Maryam Rajavi, the leader of this cult after Massoud Rajavi.
Giving the leaders of this destructive cult the opportunity to hold a deceitful conference does not send a message of friendship to the families of the captive members. In fact, the message received is that the German government supports the criminal leaders of a terrorist group. This group has imposed forced celibacy, female vasectomy, forced labor, and other violations of the most basic human rights on its members.
It is surprising for the painful and suffering families that the German government allows a terrorist cult that does not show mercy even to its own members to hold a conference and rally. The MEK is a group that, due to the violation of human rights of its members and terrorist and cultic activities, is rejected even among other opposition groups of the Islamic Republic.
We call on the German government to reconsider its decision and instead question the leaders of this organization as to why the most basic human rights of its members are violated in a remote and isolated camp with no external control over it.
With respect
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of Nejat Society
Tehran – Iran

Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ambassador Hans-Udo Muzel
Ferdowsi Ave., No 320-324, Teheran.
P.O. Box 11365-179, Teheran, Iran.

June 5, 2024 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

CEO of Nejat Society pens letter to the ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross

Greetings and Regards,

On behalf of the Nejat Society in Iran, I wish to congratulate the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day on Wednesday, May8, 2024.
Nejat Society represents the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) who are trapped in a remote and isolated camp in Albania. These families have not heard from their loved ones for many years, which is because the leaders of the cult do not allow their members to communicate with the outside world, particularly family and friends.
According to those who managed to escape from this camp, the most basic human rights of the members are violated and the European Convention on Human Rights, which Albania is also a signatory, is systematically violated.

In the mandate & mission of the Red Cross we read:
It (ICRC) takes action in response to emergencies and promotes respect for international humanitarian law and its implementation in national law.
The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.
. . . the ICRC, with the support of the entire Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, has constantly urged governments to adapt international humanitarian law to changing circumstances, . . .
According to this mandate, when the basic human rights of the members of the MEK are continuously violated inside the camp of this organization in Albania and the members are exposed to systematic brainwashing, the World Red Cross ought to urge the Albanian government to implement international and European humanitarian laws in MEK camp in Albania.
Last year, I submitted the families’ requests to connect with their loved ones, along with many documents to the ICRC office in Tehran, and they promised to handle the case and cooperate, but so far no answer has been received.

On behalf of the grieving and awaiting families, I request you to fulfill the main task of the International Committee of the Red Cross and provide the possibility of communication between the families and the missing members inside the MEK camp in Albania through the Albanian government.

The families have absolutely no information about the situation in the camp and the conditions of their loved ones. They do not know if their loved ones are still alive and live inside the camp. No one knows whether they have deceased or have been transferred to another country. There is no information about the physical and mental health of these people. Are they imprisoned and curfewed? These people are considered missing and disapeared from the point of view of their families. According to the information received from the former members, the relations inside the camp have the status of modern slavery, due to the mind control that is applied.

I also request you to remind the responsibility of the government of Albania to comply with the human rights convention of the Council of Europe and ask this government to firstly remove the ban on giving visas to Iranian families of members of the MEK to travel to Albania and secondly open the doors of the camp in Albania to families and the free world so that families can visit their loved ones along with representatives of the Red Cross and be sure of their physical and mental health.

I look forward to your reply

Respectfully,
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of Najat Society

May 11, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Modern slavery in Europe on the verge of the second quarter of the 21st century

Currently, nearly 2000 members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) have been settled in an isolated and remote camp near Manëz or Manzë city in Durrës province for about 7 years. They consider themselves to be the alternative of the Islamic Republic of Iran and want to overthrow the current Iranian regime by resorting to violence and bloodshed. By its own admission, this group is responsible for the lives of about 12,000 individuals in Iran.
The MEK actively participated in the Iran-Iraq war under Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq for many years, of course on the side of Iraq and against its own country, and also participated in many crimes against the people of Iraq, especially the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the governments of Iraq one after the other wanted the exit of this organization, which they considered a threat to national security, until finally based on the agreement made with the then government of Sali Berisha (the leader of the right-wing Democratic Party of Albania). This organization was transferred to Albania with all its members as a humanitarian measure and settled in an isolated and remote camp near the city of Manëz in Durrës province.
What was narrated above is related to the recent and distant past and is not the subject of this article. Our current issue is a completely human rights matter. In addition to everything that has been said, the MEK violates the most basic human rights of its members on a daily and systematic basis. This is our issue today. It can be boldly said that there is no outside control over the internal anti-human relations of this camp in Albania, and practically modern slavery has been exposed in Europe on the threshold of the second quarter of the 21st century, and the Albanian government either does not want or cannot take action, to stop this process.

Mrs. Ela Deda, a criminologist and the legal director of the Nejat Society of Albania, in her speech at the women’s conference of the Nejat Society of Albania on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Friday, March 8, 2024, at Villa Nejat Hall in Tirana, stated:

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (official name: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international instrument for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. This convention was prepared in 1950 by the Council of Europe. It is mentioned in this convention that:

Article 2 – Right to life (Article 2 protects the right to life of every person).

Article 3 – Prohibition of Torture (Article 3 prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and there are no exceptions or limitations to this right.)

Article 5 – Right to liberty and security (Article 5 stipulates that everyone has the right to liberty and personal security.)

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life (Article 8 stipulates the right to respect private and family life.)

Article 10 – Freedom of expression (Article 10 protects freedom of expression limited only by “lawful” restrictions that are “necessary in a democratic society.” This right also includes freedom of thought.)

Article 12 – The right to marry (Article 12 states the right to marry and form a family for adult women and men [1]).
Meanwhile, the Republic of Albania wants to enter the European Union and is trying to align itself with the European legal and judicial standards. It is worth mentioning that this convention is approved by the Council of Europe and the Republic of Albania, as a member of the Council of Europe, is one of the signatories of this convention [2].
Now we will discuss some provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and its examples in the Manëz camp in Albania:

Article 2 – Right to life

The MEK in Albania does not pay the least attention to the health of its members in terms of medical and health care, and the deaths that are constantly reported indicate this lack of care. It does not mean that treatment facilities are not available, but the MEK has deprived people of free access to these facilities. Many reports have been received that there is a lot of delay in bringing people to doctors and hospitals in Durrës or Tirana due to the fear of dissatisfied people running away. MEK members cannot easily leave the camp and go to medical centers in Albania.

Article 3 – Prohibition of torture

Former members of the MEK have reported systematic acts of psychological and physical repression in the inquisition meetings, as well as insults, humiliation, slander, and even physical encounters for forced coercion in the Manëz camp in Albania. The psychological destruction of the members has sometimes led them to the border of insanity, and currently there are many mental cases inside the camp that are kept in complete isolation. Inhumane and humiliating treatment is a common practice in the MEK in Albania to destroy people’s psychological defense so that they can take away the ability to say “no” from them so that they always give a positive answer to any illegitimate request.

Article 5 – Right to liberty and security

No member of the MEK in Albania feels safe and is always afraid of being targeted for repression and punishment, without reason. In the MEK, there are no written rules and regulations that can be cited, on which a person can be accused and punished, but the discernment of the leaders at any time is considered as law and regulation. It has been officially announced that the wishes of the organization’s leadership at any time are considered the law of that time.

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life

No one in the Manëz camp of the MEK in Albania has any privacy whatsoever. The MEK has invalidated and prohibited any kind of privacy based on its cultic doctrine. Based on the brainwashing that takes place, people are even obliged to report their night’s sleep and pay for it. Free thinking is rejected under the title of mental wandering or intellectual liberalism.

Article 10 – Freedom of expression

People in the Manëz camp do not have the right to disagree or even question the performance of the organization and its leadership. The MEK in Albania has a cultic pyramid structure with the leader at the top of the pyramid. Criticism is allowed only from top to bottom, and towards oneself in front of the official. No question is answered by logical discussion but psychological repression is done to silence the person. All methods of forced coercion are constantly used.

Article 12 – The right to marry

The right to fall in love, get married, form a family, and have children in the camp of the MEK in Albania does not exist at all. Forced celibacy, which is an anti-human imposition, is applied within the relations of the MEK in Albania. In the Manëz camp, gender segregation is implemented in the most severe possible way. There are no families or children in this camp. The family is called a nest of corruption. The main enemy of everyone is considered to be his family.
All of the above and many more clearly prove that destructive cultic mind control methods are practiced inside the remote and isolated Manëz camp. According to the laws and regulations in European countries, brainwashing and mind control and the impositions carried out in this camp are crimes, but the Albanian police and judicial system have closed their eyes on these cases for years.

Right now, in the most blatant way possible, the rights enshrined in the European Convention, drafted, ratified and enforced in the mid-20th century, are being violated on Albanian soil by a destructive mind control cult, and it is the responsibility of the Albanian government to put an end to this situation. And put an end to cultic relations in Manëz camp in Durrës province, which is nothing but modern slavery.

All human rights organizations should demand that the gates of this mysterious camp with medieval connections be opened to the media, government officials and human rights investigators to find out what is going on inside this terrible fortress. Many former members inside and outside Albania are ready to testify at any place and at any time to provide details of this blatant violation of the most basic human rights of the members.

The fact that the MEK has been able to force people to voluntarily give up their human rights, by using mind control methods over time in its cultic base, does not fundamentally change anything, and the responsibility lies with the human rights institutions. Humanity does not accept this, because in practice what is really happening is that still the most basic human rights are violated, and this situation must be terminated immediately. If a person does not demand his rights due to mind control and brainwashing methods in an isolated environment and even volunteers for brutal mental and physical torture, should the torturer be allowed for doing it?

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1- The European Convention on Human Rights, (official: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms), is an international treaty for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe, which was drafted in 1950 by the New Foundation prepared by the Council of Europe, and entered into force on September 3, 1953.
European Convention on Human Rights
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_FAS
This convention has 59 articles and 16 additional protocols, in each clause of which there are many examples from within the organization, which are enough to condemn the MEK for violating basic human rights.

2- The Council of Europe (It is different from the European Union and should not be mistaken) has 46 members from European countries, including Albania. Albania is one of the countries that has signed the European Convention on Human Rights and is committed to its implementation.

March 24, 2024 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

The CEO’s gratitude to the women of the Albanian Nejat Society

Ebrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of Nejat Society, thanked the Albanian women in a message following the successful and fruitful activities of the women’s group of the Albanian Nejat Society.
The text of the message is as follows:

Greetings and regards
Hereby, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Women’s group of the Nejat Society of Albania and you, the active and caring head, for the successful and fruitful celebration of the International Women’s Day on Friday March 8, 2024 in Nejat Villa in Tirana.

The commemoration programs of this day started with social activities early in the morning in the center of Tirana city and continued with photo and poster exhibition in the Villa’s open area and finally ended with the conference of women supporters of the Nejat Society of Albania with prominent speeches in the Villa’s hall.

This was the second major act of the Albanian Nejat Society after the large gathering of November 26, 2023, since the announcement of its founding in less than six months.
Also, I congratulate you and your friends and all the eager families on the foundation of the students’ defense committee of the Albanian Nejat Society, which was announced in this conference, and I hope that these activities will be a source of good and blessings for the families.

The received reports indicate that you organized this program with the lowest cost and facilities and with round-the-clock efforts in a very limited time and with a very busy schedule, and you had good media coverage, including a report broadcast on several television channels.

While thanking all of you, it should be mentioned that now families have much higher expectations in the coming Persian New Year (Nowruz). The activities of you and your friends should finally convince the Albanian government to terminate the practice of modern slavery by MEK in Europe on the threshold of the second quarter of the 21st century.

Sincerely,
Ebrahim Khodabandeh

March 12, 2024 0 comments

Albania

letter of the CEO of Nejat Society to the authorities in the Albanian government

Ebrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of the Nejat Society, wrote a detailed letter to the authorities in the Albanian government, which was delivered by the Nejat Society of Albania on January 24 of this year, along with some attachments. This letter contained new information as well as requests from the Albanian government.
Parts of this letter are summarized as below:

To the responsible authorities in the Albanian government
Greetings and respect

I would like to present some issues as follows:
On June 20 of last year, the isolated and remote camp of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania was inspected by police forces with a judicial directive. Of course, the reaction of the organization was violent and illegal, as it appears from its cultic nature and has been repeated in Iraq and other countries in the past.
Before that, the respected Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania announced in various interviews and statements that the MEK members were accepted in Albania for humanitarian reasons, but they did not adhere to their commitments and became a threat to national security. It is not a secret to anyone that the MEK targets the psychological and physical security of the Iranian people from the territory of Albania.

During the 7 years that the MEK has enjoyed the unrestricted hospitality of the country of Albania, the families of its members have been deprived of receiving visas and traveling to Albania and visiting their loved ones. After the turning point of June 20, the families expected that, firstly, an opening would be provided for the suffering families to travel to Albania, and secondly, the hostile actions of the MEK against the people of Iran would be prevented, but in both cases, the expectations were not fulfilled.

The ban on families entering Albania, which is said to have been at the request of the MEK, is still in force months after the violent and cultic nature of the MEK was exposed, and as far as the families are concerned, the conditions in Albania has not changed after June 20 and this cult is fully allowed to firstly violate the most basic human rights of its members and secondly to threaten the security of the Iranian nation from the territory of Albania.

The government of Albania has announced that it does not provide the Internet to the MEK camp in Albania, but the MEK continues to widely attract individuals from the Albanian soil through the Internet with deception or inducement or even threats, and leads destructive and abusive actions according to those who recently left the organization. This process continues with all intensity from the organization’s camp in Albania, as it was in the past. Several cases of recent confessions to such actions from the organization’s own propaganda machine are attached.

As you are aware, since the MEK entered Albania, many members have separated and some have begun to expose the internal affairs of the organization. Some of these former members have organized themselves in Albania and have been supported by their families and the Nejat Society. These people want to return to normal life as soon as possible with the help of Nejat Society and responsible authorities. The people who are under the protection of the Nejat Society fully adhere to the laws and regulations of the country of Albania and avoid political and intelligence activities; and based on their sense of responsibility towards the families, they engage in human rights activities to fulfill the wishes of the family.
. . . . . . .
Below, I will summarize the demands of the families and the Nejat Society:
A policy be adopted so that the families be pleased after years of sorrow and hardship. There are people inside the MEK camp who want to leave. Respected authorities can create a space for these people to have access to their families and to the Nejat Society so that they can choose and experience a free life if they wish. The people inside the camp have been in an isolated environment and under cultic brainwashing for years, and they have no image of the world outside of the cult, and they are unnecessarily afraid of it and consider themselves unable to face it.

An arrangement be made to give visas to the families of former and current members of the MEK. These families and the Nejat Society pledge to firstly obey the laws and regulations of the Albanian government and the rules set by the responsible authorities, and secondly, their stay in Albania is limited to the duration of their visas.

A procedure be taken to remove the bans and cultic boundaries of the camp of the MEK in Albania, so that the members stationed there can communicate freely with the outside world. It means that the MEK should treat its members like all other organizations, groups and parties, and should not violate the basic human rights of its members and their families and recognize them.

Sincerely,
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of Najat Society

January 28, 2024 0 comments

Albania

Letter of the CEO of Nejat Society to the Albania’s PM

Honorable Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania
His Excellency Mr. Edvin Rama
Greetings and Regards
I am Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society in Iran. I have written to you and other statesmen and officials of the Republic of Albania many times, but unfortunately, I have not received any response so far. Therefore, with your permission, I am providing the content of this letter to the Albanian authorities, parliament representatives, and media to record it in history, so that it is clear what has been said many times.

I would like to point out the history of friendship and deep cultural commonalities between the two nations of Albania and Iran and to remind you the fact that these two countries have not had the slightest conflict and disagreement in their historical records, until the presence of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania.
In previous correspondence, I have written in detail about the restrictions that are applied to the families of the members trapped in the isolated and remote camp of the MEK in Albania in order to communicate with their loved ones, but so far the least attention has been paid to this clear violation of the most basic human rights by an organization that has been brought to Albania under the responsibility of your government.

I must clarify that the support and cooperation of the Albanian government with the MEK is absolutely certain and is not hidden from anyone. Under the guise of humanitarian action, as you mentioned in the interview with the New York Times, your government brought the MEK to Albania, while according to you, Iraq and no other country was willing to accept them, and you pointed out that it was supposed that no political activities be done, but you admitted that in practice the opposite happened.

But on the other hand, all kinds of restrictions are applied against the former members of this organization, which are organized within the framework of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA), which can be explained in details. These people are refugees who left their homeland hoping to bring freedom and prosperity to their people, and then they were deceived by a terrorist cult and were forcibly brought to Albania. From preventing them from opening a bank account and refusing to give identification cards and work permits to not giving them travel documents or visas to their families to visit them, as well as imprisoning some of them in the Karrec camp for no reason, are among the restrictions that is applied against these people.

Nejat Society, consisting of the families of the Rajavi Cult members, decided to help these helpless people who were unwillingly brought to your country by the MEK. The members of ASILA have decided to expose the cultic nature of the MEK to everyone so that no one else falls into their trap, and apparently this is bothering some in Albania.

In previous messages, I gave information about the activities of the MEK, which apparently is not supposed to do any political activities. In addition to them, for the information of your Excellency and other statesmen and security officials of the Republic of Albania, I should mention that according to the media of the MEK, the annual ceremony of this organization is scheduled to be held in the form of a demonstration in Paris on July 1st of this year, with the speech of Maryam Rajavi. It has been decided that Maryam Rajavi and many officials of this organization will go to France from Albania to participate in this ceremony. These traffics are carried out in coordination with the authorities of the Albanian government. These people travel with passports other than their real names. For example, Mehdi Abrishamchi, who is known by the name Sharif inside the MEK, travels with a passport in the name of Bahman Tehrani.

It should be noted that Maryam Rajavi traveled to Brussels on the 25th and 26th of May to lobby for the project of preventing the return of the Iranian diplomat, with the coordination of the Albanian authorities, using a passport with a different name, and returned to Albania again. This is contrary to the claims of preventing the political activities of the MEK against the Islamic Republic. An issue between the two countries of Iran and Belgium was being resolved. What can this issue have to do with Maryam Rajavi and her sponsor, the Albanian government?
Your security officials have repeatedly reminded our friends in Albania that Albania is not a war zone of the MEK and its former members. Who ignited the fire of this war? Who accepted the responsibility of the MEK in the war with Iran and allowed it to threaten Iran’s security?

Either the Albanian government knowingly supports the MEK and restricts its former members for the benefit of this organization, or the MEK is abusing the Albanian government and some executive and security officials of this country. In any case, considering the fact that this organization has a history and performance and nature of terrorism, it can be considered a threat to national security.

Recently, after the hacking of the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, which I mentioned in the previous message, the website of the presidency was also hacked by showing the pictures of the leaders of this organization, and the MEK immediately accepted the responsibility in a statement and republished it many times.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hackers-post-photos-of-iranian-opposition-leaders-on-government-websites
Hackers post photos of Iranian opposition leaders on government websites
Pictures of Massoud Rajavi, the long-missing leader of the MEK exile group, and his wife go up on several sites
By JON GAMBRELL

The working method adopted by the Albanian government, which means accepting the MEK in its territory without the least restrictions and providing all kinds of facilities to act against the security of the Iranian people, and in contrast to restricting its former members in various ways, definitely cannot be in line with the best national interests of this country.
In my opinion, Albania is at a special and important historical moment, where it is necessary to make the right decision. From the beginning of its presence in Albania, the MEK tried to disrupt the relations between the two countries and put the two countries against each other, thus consolidating its own position. Giving a free hand to the MEK for travel and any practical action and tightening ASILA’s hands and limiting it will definitely not help the current difficult situation.

I hereby request that the legal issues of ASILA members and especially the possibility of their families traveling to Albania or the possibility of their traveling to outside of Albania be provided. Arrangements should also be made so that families can communicate with their loved ones in the MEK camp in Albania.

Respects
Ebrahim Khodabandeh

Copy to:
Albanian government officials
Members of Parliament of Albania
Security and police officials
Media

June 13, 2023 0 comments

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Ebrahim Khodabandeh pens letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery

United Nations Human Rights
Office of the High Commissioner

Prof. Tomoya Obokata
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery

Greetings and Regards
This is Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society in Iran. Nejat Society belongs to the families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) lead by Maryam Rajavi. The group is now living in a remote and closed camp in Albania isolated from the outside world.
MEK is a mind control destructive cult. They had their bases in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and were active during the Iran-Iraq war on the side of the enemy. Their main base was Ashraf Garrison. They were fully armed and financed and supported by Iraqi Ba’ath Regime.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, many MEK members managed to flee from Ashraf and reported lots of atrocities against the members including physical and mental pressure, solitary confinement, torture, and even execution. Those who tried to escape ended up in Abu-Ghraib prison.
According to the cultic rules and regulations of the MEK, the followings are forbidden inside the cult and the wrongdoers are liable for punishment.

– Marriage and forming a family,
– Trying to leave the cult,
– Criticizing the leader and the cult,
– Contacting the outside world particularity family and friends,
– Having private thoughts and belongings

The MEK moved to Albania in 2016 and they established the same remote and closed camp in Manëz in the province of Durrës, also isolated from the outside world with the same Cultic rules and regulations.
The MEK members are suffering from modern slavery. They have no way out and they have been subject to mind manipulation and brain washing for decades away from society and their families.
The families of these members expect you as a UN official to intervene into the matter via the Albanian government to arrange for the families to have access to their loved ones inside the camp in order to be in touch with them. Some of these families have had no contact with their relatives for decades.
I am anxiously looking forward to hearing from you
Regards
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of the Nejat Society

P.S.
Some references for further information:
Destructive and Terrorist Cults: A New Kind of Slavery: Leader, Followers, and Mind Manipulation Paperback – September 15, 2014
By Masoud Banisadr (Author), Prof Janja Lalich (Author), & 3 more

The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq
A Policy Conundrum
By RAND, Jeremiah Goulka, Lydia Hansell, Elizabeth Wilke, Judith Larson
https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG871.html

No Exit
Human Rights Abuses inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps
By Human Rights Watch (HRW), May 2005
https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/

June 11, 2023 0 comments

Albania

Double Standards of the Albanian Prime Minister

According to the recently published article by Andrew Higgins of the New York Times, titled “A NATO Minnow Reels from Cyberattacks Linked to Iran”, published on February 25th, 2023, Edi Rama the prime Minister of Albania has assured the Albanian nation and the international community that no political activities are done in the headquarters of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK/ PMOI).

It is unlikely that the honorable Prime Minister is so unaware of the affairs inside his own country that he is nit able to know that not only political actions are taken by the MEK but also it commits all types of crimes and illegitimate acts in Albania and in response no one in the government expresses concern or sorrow.
The increasing dissatisfaction of the Albanian nation and the entire European Union regarding the presence of the Cult of Rajavi in the European territory, as well as the hatred of the Iranian people and Iranian opposition groups towards the MEK, is undeniable. Also, the fact that the MEK violates the most basic rights of its own members has become a serious problem for the Albanian government.

On the one side, Albania wants to distance itself from Maryam Rajavi and her notorious group in order to get closer to the EU. On the other side, it can not neglect the financial aids by Saudi Arabia and the intelligence and propaganda aid by Israel. The two governments that currently support the MEK.
Mr. Edi Rama should be asked that the news of Maryam Rajavi’s meeting with British Parliamentarians and his recent expression of support for the Iranian revolution which was published on the MEK’s website was considered “agricultural activity”?

By Ebrahim Khodabandeh

The NYTimes article:

A NATO Minnow Reels from Cyberattacks Linked to Iran
By Andrew Higgins
Published Feb. 25, 2023

A NATO Minnow Reels from Cyberattacks Linked to Iran
Albania has been the target of repeated digital assaults believed to be linked to its sheltering of an Iranian dissident group on its soil.

The Albanian government has resisted succumbing to blackmail and has refused to evict M.E.K. Doing that, Mr. Rama said, would be “the biggest shame” for a country with a long history of sheltering refugees nobody else wants, including thousands of Afghans in 2021.

But he complained that M.E.K. were “not easy people, frankly,” and that the group had violated an agreement that it would refrain from using Albania as “a safe haven to make political activity against the Iranian regime.”
Instead, the group has organized high-profile events in Albania aimed at rallying opposition to Tehran, including an annual gathering called the Free Iran World Summit, whose paid speakers have included prominent American supporters like Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York mayor and a onetime personal lawyer to former President Donald J. Trump.

The Iranian dissidents, Mr. Rama said, have “friends on Capitol Hill that lobby for them” but have now been ordered to halt public activities against Iran. M.E.K. canceled the Free Iran event last year. “There is no more of this now,” the prime minister said. “We hope that they will not try again because it is not beneficial to this country and they have to accept that.”

The NCR article:

Renowned British Lawmakers Visit Ashraf 3, Support Iran’s Resistance and Revolution
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1st March 2023

March 4, 2023 0 comments

Albania

Would there be a change in the circumstances of Albania?

Introduction:
Hacking the Albania’s government systems on several occasions last summer and Iran being accused in this regard and the widespread propaganda against Iran, the disclosure of documents obtained from the hacks, which the public prosecutor of Albania declared prohibited, widespread poverty among the people and increasing corruption in the judicial system and the government of this country (including security and police), which wants to join the European Union, the protests and unrest of the last several months in Albania, the prospect of the opposition winning the upcoming elections, and the lack of full support of US and NATO from Albania changed the conditions of this country this year in such a way that Edi Rama’s government became closer and even totally dependent on Israel and Saudi Arabia, both of which are supporters of the MEK.

It seems that despite the fact that the meeting of the MEK was canceled last summer due to the intervention of the American embassy, and the State Department of the US government publicly opposed this group, the MEK has expanded its place due to the influence of the United States, money of Saudi and UAE, and propaganda machine of Israeli. MEK gained much more freedom of action in this poor and mafia-based country, especially in Durres province, where the MEK is very active politically, financially and by propaganda.

Some observations:

Albania has been seeking to enter the European Union for a long time, and in this regard, there is a consensus among all parties, despite their conflicts, and no one in Albania is against this. On the other hand, the European Union must evaluate and confirm the eligibility of this country to be a member of this union, and many delegations, commissions and personalities have been responsible for this task, and high-level officials of the European Union and various delegations have made many trips to Albania.

Among other things, on December 2, 2022, the President of Germany visited Albania. On December 6, a number of European Prime Ministers and Presidents attended a summit in Albania, on December 7 the Prime Minister of Greece visited Albania (Greece is important to Albania as an EU member neighbor).
On the other hand, it seems that the European Union, which did not go along with the US in some international issues, is compromising and giving concessions to Iran after failing in the recent unrest. England, which is no longer a member of the European Union and is considered US’s closest ally, dismissed the Iran International TV channel (against IRI) based in London and forced them to go to Washington.
In addition to corruption in the government and the judicial, security and law enforcement systems of Albania, one of the topics discussed is the presence of the terrorist organization of the MEK in this country, which was transferred to an isolated and remote camp during the administration of Donald Trump and is free to carry out Illegal acts, and even violation of the basic human rights of the members.

An internal report:

What is significant in the current situation is an internal report of the Albanian government that has been made available to EU officials. In part of this report, it is stated:
“After the Munich conference, Prime Minister Rama is trying to assess the real importance of the MEK. He is not sure that Maryam Rajavi is of great importance, because no one from the MEK was invited to that conference. While the heir to the throne of Iran was invited to that conference and held a press meeting at the conference. French President Macron, who was the former host of Maryam Rajavi, never agreed to meet her and even Maryam Rajavi’s asylum status in France was canceled, but He met with Masoume Alinejad and other figures of the opposition of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Prime Minister Rama will definitely take some steps to distance himself from Maryam Rajavi, of course, without burning the bridges behind him.”

Following this report, a source from within the Albanian judicial system predicted: “There is a possibility that Musa Jabrifar (Ashkan) will be released from prison for humanitarian reasons and all claims against him will be withdrawn. I think tomorrow or the day after tomorrow he may be at home under a restraining order (Ashkan was released two days after the date of this prediction). If that happens, it is possible that the Iranians of Karrec Camp will be released as well. We will have to wait and see if that happens. Will they be released before the Iranian New Year or not?”

Summary of reports and data:

Other reports have been received from various sources in Albania, which can be summarized as follows:
1. MEK is strengthening its influence in various ranks of important Albanian institutions, such as the state police (especially the counter-terrorism department), which tries to create legal problems for former members not with the organization, and any legal basis for sending them to prison.

2. Police officials and prosecutors and judges are tired of the MEK and their letters of protest and their continuous fake information about Iran’s spy rings and Iran’s terrorist efforts with the help of former members in Albania, but because they received good sums. They do not immediately deny such claims. They play with time and justify that it takes time to investigate such information and complex cases, and they need more facts and evidence.

3. The MEK constantly delivers fake information to the Albanian authorities under the title of Security and Anti-Terrorism Commission of the National Council of Resistance to prove that the former members are engaged in espionage and terrorist activities against them. Most of this information is considered unimportant.

4. MEK is strengthening their relations with the Durres City Council (the mayor and other managers and members of the city council). They use Israeli and Abu Dhabi diplomats and entrepreneurs, as well as the Jones International Company owned by a retired American 4-star general. Jones himself is in contact with Durres City Council as an intermediary.

5. MEK uses a soft method to infiltrate the local community:
First. Inviting selected groups of people from the city of Manëz to enter the camp for reception. They donate prescription glasses not only to the residents of Manëz administrative unit, but also to other areas of Durres municipality.
Second. The MEK is doing a lot of advertising for the residents of Manëz to convince them that with the cooperation of the Albanian government, the MEK and the Durres Municipality, they are investing in the Manëz region and also receiving financial aid from friendly Arab countries (investment in construction such as: asphalting roads, upgrading the local power grid, installing new trash cans, etc.).
Third. They even tell the people that the reconstruction of houses damaged and destroyed by the November 2019 earthquake in Manëz is being done faster than other regions of Albania thanks to the intervention of the MEK among the Albanian authorities.

6. The MEK has given some of its members a one-year residence permit by the border police and immigration of Albania, but they keep the documents with themselves. The MEK has set up small businesses using Albanian citizens as cover (even money exchanges). The elected commanders of the MEK are conducting the driver’s license test to obtain an Albanian driver’s license.

7. The MEK donates aid packages to 120 families (generally in Manëz city) every month. The package is nothing big (15 kilos of flour, sugar, rice, cooking oil, can of cheap sardines, cheap macaroni, biscuits, 1.5-liter bottle of Albanian cola, etc.) and the price of each package is no more than 20 euros. However, such moves have allowed the MEK to have their circle of informers among the local population.

8. The MEK is strengthening its ties with high-ranking Albanian politicians, both from the opposition and from Edi Rama’s party. In May, we have local elections in Albania, where the opposition has a high chance. MEK is in contact with the current mayor of Durres (she will run again) as well as with someone from the opposition who will challenge her.

9. MEK pays a lot of money to media owners (tens of thousands of dollars) to prevent the publication of any positive news about ASILA, especially the hunger strike that happened in the refugee camp in Karrec. This help is also given on the condition that such media, publish negative advertisements about Iran as much as possible.

Based on evidence and reports, it can be concluded that in the near future we will see changes in the conditions of Albania.

February 25, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

300 Fake MEK-Facebook Accounts Tip of the Iceberg

Removing 300 fake MEK accounts after so long is only one percent of the actual amount of this type of account

Associated Press (AP News) reported on April 7, 2021 that Facebook has removed about 300 Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) linked fake accounts run from Albania.

https://apnews.com/article/europe-albania-iran-media-misinformation-8afcd143546fada00b88ff09ac810b31?fbclid=IwAR2F_i3EebAhavZjH5F6fPtOUvXzoUTnjoTE7Gl_3Jv-rWIC5dsfusZQNEc

The news was widely reported in the international media.

Link to the detailed report by Facebook (PDF)

However, it should be noted that according to information obtained from a large number of former members of the Rajavi cult in Albania, which has been reflected in international media in the past couple of years, the MEK cyber unit or troll farm in this country contains 1,500 people, each with about 20 fake accounts in cyberspace which target the peace and security of Iranian society.

The followers of this destructive mind control cult, who are in fact modern slaves, are engaged in producing and spreading rumours and posting misinformation from various accounts against the national interests of the Iranian people all day long, like robots, based on a specific schedule.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Aljazeera_Alavi_MEK.mp4

Removing 300 fake MEK accounts, after so many years, constitutes only one percent of the actual amount of this type of account operating from Albania.

Last year, on April 22, 2020, The Intercept reported on a fake identity created by the MEK in Albania called “Heshmat Alavi” whose misinformation was quoted by Donald Trump as well as Mike Pompeo against Iran.
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/22/trump-heshmat-alavi-twitter-mek/

The Intercept also reported on June 9, 2019 that Alavi is a composite identity run by a team of MEK members based mainly at the group’s compound in Albania, according to defectors who were involved with managing the account and other sources. The article says:

“Alavi’s articles also mixed criticisms of Iran and U.S. policy with overt advocacy for the MEK. His pieces in the Daily Caller, The Hill, and other outlets — though less numerous than his contributions to Forbes — employed a similar mix of advocacy against the Iranian regime and praise for the MEK. Though the MEK is known to be widely loathed among Iranians, Alavi described the group as the “main Iranian opposition group” in a 2017 Daily Caller article.”

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/heshmat-alavi-fake-iran-mek/

Aljazeera News, wrote on June 15, 2019 in an article titled ‘US-Iran debates: Fake writers and state-funded trolling’ that:

“As the Trump administration continues with its hawkish talk on Iran, we need to look at how that story is being crafted and by whom: Heshmat Alavi was once cited by the White House as a credible commentator on Iran. Shame he doesn’t exist. It turns out he is a fictional persona reportedly created by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a shadowy group opposed to the Iranian government and supported by Washington.”

In this regards The American Conservative in a lengthy article titled ‘Another Opinion Columnist Pushing War with Iran Who Doesn’t Actually Exist’ wrote about this matter on Sep 2, 2020, emphasizing that:

“The list of MEK disinformation tactics also includes fake online since-deleted sites such as PersiaNow and ArabEye and questionable sites such as Iran Focus whose domain was formerly registered under the name of an NCRI spokesperson and is now anonymously held.”

“MEK’s recent influence campaign on Facebook spearheaded by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) was recently reported on last year by Lachlan Markey at the Daily Beast. Markey explained how NCRI lobbyist Soheila Aligholi Mayelzadeh has helped place paid ads on Facebook reaching between 500,000 to 1.4 million users as part of the campaign to sway US public opinion in favor of MEK and intervention in Iran.”

“The list of outright fakes recently in the realm of foreign policy analysis is significant: there is the apparent Emirati fabrication Raphael Badani to MEK sock puppet Alavi, first revealed by The Intercept, to deep fake non-existent anti-Palestinian activist Oliver Taylor, whose work was placed at highly-respected publications in the United States and Israel.”

The American Conservative also wrote on January 6, 202I in an article titled ‘Rejecting Regime Change for Good’ that:

“The U.S. government doesn’t understand the countries in question, it relies on bad information that is frequently offered to them by self-serving exiles and activists, and it doesn’t know how to do state-and-institution-building on such a large scale in any case. The U.S. has expended vast resources for decades on some of these policies with remarkably little to show for it, so it is laughable to think that the problem is insufficient resources. There are things that are simply beyond our government’s power. The answer is not to do regime change on the cheap, as the U.S. tried in Libya, but to reject regime change.”

The Independent wrote on June 11, 2019 under the title ‘Heshmat Alavi Gate’ (Trump and MEK):
“The Heshmat Alavi persona had a strong presence on Twitter and harassed Iranian journalists, academics, and activists who are critical of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq organisation, a one-time armed guerilla group now holed up in Albania. There is no known link between the Iran Disinfo programme and the fake persona. At least one was cited by the Trump administration as proof against the effectiveness of the Obama-era nuclear deal. Some of the MEK articles were also picked up by US government funded Voice of America’s Persian-language service.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-iran-congress-meeting-money-trump-conflict-a8954191.html

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