Message from Mr. Jalal Gholamzadeh Golmarz to his brother Jalil, based in the MEK camp in Albania and the government officials:
There is no information about her current whereabouts. She was the daughter of a Mujahed family. Her father Mohammad Khabazian and her mother Maryam Hajkhanban were members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ PMOI/ MEK/ Cult of Rajavi).
In 1991, Adeleh and her siblings together with hundreds of children of the MEK members were sent from Camp Ashraf, Iraq to Europe. The authorities of the group relocated Adeleh and her younger sister Atefeh in Germany and their two brothers in the United States.
At the time, Adeleh was a seventeen-year-old student. The group had charged her with the responsibility of training younger children of the Mujahedin. Like other children, she had also some other organizational duties such as fundraising activities. “On the weekends, she had to work for the group from early in the morning until late in the evening in cities across Germany,” Nadereh Afshar writes about Adeleh in her book on the MEK titled “Love Forbidden”.
For Adeleh, forced hijab was the subject of disputes with the authorities of the MEK. Although she was living in Europe, she was forced to cover her hair by the group commanders. Nadereh Afshar writes about Adeleh’s issues with the MEK:
“She complained about forced hijab constantly and in response she was always attacked by the group authorities… After too much fighting, Adeleh decided to uncover her hair. Tayebe Rahmani Lahuti — who was a member of the group’s Elite Council and wanted to bring freedom for Iranian people—told her that her mother should allow her to remove her scar , after she realized that beating and intimidating Adeleh would not work!
“They brought the mother on the phone (the line of resistance!) to intimidate her daughter to cover her hair. The innocent girl told her mother: “I am ashamed that my mother is a Mujahed”. She hung up the phone while her mother was lecturing about the revolutionary advantages of hijab.”
The MEK commanders held several meetings for Adeleh to convince her to keep her hijab. Having been failed in their efforts, they finally labeled her “traitor chicken” and expelled her and her sister out of the organization.
Adeleh who had got rid of tough days of living inside the group, started exposing facts about the world inside the mujahedin khalq. Now, it was the father’s turn to take action to coerce the daughter to the organization’s rules.
“The father himself was a victim of Massoud Rajavi’s doctrine, came to punish his daughter. Adeleh was punched and kicked by her father although he had never harassed his children until that day,” Afshar writes about the fate of Adeleh in the MEK.
Mahin tavakoli is the mother of Ahmad Abdi, member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). She has been looking forward to meet her son for 40 years.
Ahmad was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces in 1980 when he was a volunteer military in Iran-Iraq war. He used to contact his family from inside the Iraqi prison until 1988 but since then his family had no news about him. In 2001, defectors of the MEK told Ahmad’s family that he was in Camp Ashraf.
Ahmad’s father died a few years ago while he was looking forward to see his beloved son. Now, his mother asks him to contact her hoping that Ahmad will see the video someday.
A letter was sent by Ms Sorayya Abdollahi, Head of the “Mothers, Forgotten Victims”, to the Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, Ms Maria Arena.
The text of the letter is as follows:
Ms Maria Arena, Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights
Greetings and Regards
We are the mothers and families of those who were deceitfully transferred by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) from countries such as Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait as well as the prisoners of Iraq-Iran war during the era of Saddam Hussein to MEK camp in Iraq. These people were then transferred to Albania in 2016 and settled in an isolated and remote camp.
The families of MEK members based in the camp in Albania, especially the suffering mothers, have been unaware of their children’s condition for some forty years, as MEK members are completely out of touch with the outside world.
The desire of families is to meet their loved ones or at least hear their voices for a few minutes. Now, if we consider these people as prisoners, according to international regulations and laws in any country, visiting the family and meeting the next of kin is the least recognized right. Now, considering this important issue, it is necessary to mention that the members captured in the MEK camp in Albania are deprived of the slightest human rights.
A campaign received more than 11,000 signatures from families and their relatives in Iran and other countries requesting the Albanian government to let them meet with their loved ones in Albania, or at least let them an audio and video communication. The Albanian authorities in support of the MEK did not pay any attention to the families’ demands. The photo and all the necessary documents were also sent to Albanian government officials and international organizations, but so far we, the families, have not received any response.
As a suffering mother, my son Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh has entered this terrorist cult with deception, and on behalf of all mothers and families, I urge you, as a European human rights official, to call on the Albanian government and ask them for what sin mothers are not allowed having any contact with their children.
Sorayya Abdollahi
“Mothers, the Forgotten Victims”
Amir was born in Paris after his parents left Iran to join Masoud Rajavi there. He and his family were then sent to Iraq to relocate in Camp Ashraf, the land Saddam Hussein had donated to the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). However, Amir’s connection with his parents was cut in Camp Ashraf, just like hundreds of other children.
As a child, he was again sent to Europe, enduring problems far from his parents. His destiny became worse when he was made return to Camp Ashraf as a teenager by the group leaders.
Amir is free now. In January 2019, he spoke of his dreadful days in Camp Ashraf for the first time, in an interview with Saeed Behbahani the host of Mihan TV. In the long detailed interview Amir revealed facts on difficulties, segregations and mental pressure he suffered during his stay in the cult-like structure of the MEK.
Fed up with the oppressive atmosphere of the group, he asked to leave the group but he found his mother Akram Habibkhani against himself. During an hours-long session to convince him to stay with the MEK, the leaders of the camp humiliated him constantly before the eyes of his mother. They verbally abused him, spitted in his face while his Mom was just weeping tears looking at him. Finally, his mother told Amir: “Amir! Promise me not to leave unless your blood is shed!” BY the way. Amir could ultimately manage to leave the MEK.
Years after leaving the MEK, Amir is still shocked by his mother’s words. He wonders what state his mother was stuck in that she wished the killing of her son instead of leaving the group. He still envies normal children who enjoy the love of a normal mother. “When I am on trains looking at mothers and their children sitting next to each other, I envy them.”
Nevertheless, he has recently taken action to visit her mother in the MEK camp in Albania. “That day, I stayed in front of the MEK camp in Albania for hours,” Amir tells the story of that very day. “Finally they told me: it is not clear where your mother is. She might have gone shopping or she might have not been in that camp at all. The Albanian guards of the camp did not let me talk to the MEK members. We had to get back without visiting my mother. Even the political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran have the right to visit their families but I am still wondering why the MEK did not allow me to visit my mother although I had already informed them.”
Amir’s father, Esmail Vafa Yaghmai who defected the MEK years ago, writes how the MEK abducted his son.
“The efforts of his mother together with the MEK leaders in order to mobilize teenagers to Iraq and my problematic conditions in France made Amir go to Iraq in July 14, 1998,” he writes on his blog.
“In the age of fourteen while he weighed only 30 kilograms, He took a Kalashinkov… this was the fate of one of the children in the MEK. Amir passed twenty two years of his life in grieve and turmoil. I cannot forgive myself for not preventing him from going to Iraq just because I wanted to respect his mother.”
Today, Amir has a PhD degree in Eco-logy, living in Europe with his wife and their newly born kid. Another defector of the MEK, Atefeh Eghbal writes about Amir’s unsuccessful trip to Albania to meet her mother: “The whole story is so simple that one may wonder why the MEK makes it so complicated. Amir went to Albania last year in the hope of meeting his mother telling him the news of the grandchild she has now but was not given the chance to tell her. Today, the MEK do not even let him call his mother.”
Rahim Kiukan was born in March 1945. In 1981, while a supporter of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), he fled and in 1982, he left the country and went to Pakistan and then Iraq and joined the organization. At that time he had a wife and four children.
His wife, Ms. Behjat Sediqi, raised their children Mozhgan, Mehran, Mohsen and Leila with great difficulty in the absence of their father. She was both a mother and a father to their children. The children are educated and married and have jobs and children, and of course they always felt and feel the father’s absence in their lives. No information was available on Rahim Kiukan during these years.
His daughter Leila was only two years old when Rahim left Iran.”My father and I have never heard each other’s voice”, she says. Leila has no memory of her father. Only an old photograph of his father’s youth remains, which she has enlarged, colored and framed.
Rahim Kiukan is currently in the MEK camp in Albania. He is not allowed to visit or contact his family after 39 years. Some former members have provided news and information about him to his family. He now has 7 grandchildren. Does he know about it?
Mozhgan and Leila came to the office of the Nejat Society in Tehran to get news from their father and take it to the rest of the family. They also gave a video message so that it might somehow reach the father and he could at least write a letter to them.
Mozhgan says in a message to his father Rahim:”I want to know why the MEK does not allow the members to contact their families. They can have at least one call with their families and ask them how they are and let them know what they are doing”.
And Leila tells her father:”It is the just right of a daughter to hear her father’s voice for the first time at the age of forty-one, and I wish this right exists for you and to be considered for us so that we can communicate with you”. She continues: “My mother is old now and we miss seeing you,”
Writing setting by: Atefeh Nadalian
Ramin Abdollahi deceived by the MEK operatives into joining the group about 17 years ago.Since then he have had no contact with his family.
His aging,ailed mother regularly send letters to the international human rights bodies in order to help her contact his beloved son.
her recent letter to the Albania’s PM, reads:
“Mr. Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania,
I, as a heartbroken mother, ask you and all the officials of the Government of Albania to accelerate the conditions and help me visit my dear son even just for a few seconds.
Thank you in advance for taking steps to respect human rights.“
Greetings and Regards
Your Excellency,
I am Khadijeh Nargesi. My sister Leila Nargesi is currently being held in Albania by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) led by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
In 1997, my sister left the country illegally with her friends and then deceived into joining the MEK. My family and I, especially my aged mother, are worried about our sister Leila.
Dear Mr. President,
I urge you to help us – the families of the victims – and to remove the obstacles, so that we can meet our sister in your country after 23 years, or at least have the opportunity to call her and hear her voice.
With respect,
Khadijeh Nargesi
Golestan Province, Iran
Faramarz Mohammadi family from Khuzestan Province ask the Albania authorities to allow them visit their brother who is living in MEK Camp in Albania with no contact with his family members. The MEK leaders forbid their cult members any contact with their family.
The family members of Bahman Mohammadnezhad appeal to the Albanian authorities to allow them to come to Albania and meet him who has been held in quarantine at the MEK camp since 1981.
Bahman family members: Said Mohamedi Nejad Caushi (nephew), Mohamed Riza Caushi (brother), Zahra Guzel Caushi (brother’s wife), Layla Mohamedi Nejad (sister) appeal to the government to allow them to meet their radicalized brother in the camp of MEK.
Bahman’s family members reject MEK’s slander which claims that there is a religious and fascist oppression in Iran. They urge Bahman Mohammadnezhad to return to Iran and abandon the violent jihad of Mujahedin-e Khalq.
Mr. Bahman Mohammadnezhad left Iran in 1981. Since then he have had no contact with his family.
Bahman’s Brother says: Massoud and Maryam Rajavi don’t let us have any contact with my brother. I demand the Albanian government to let us have contact with Bahman…
MEK claims that the families are the agents of the Iranian regime!
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi asks Bahman’s family:
What do you want to do here in Albania? Are you going to kill them? Because this is what Maryam Rajavi claims.
See what the family’s reply was:
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi says:
“…I want to show to all the world that you guys in Iran, the family members of Mr. Bahman Mohammadnezhad , are not terrorists, are not killers, you are not agents of the secret service of Iran. You are an honest family who want to meet their uncle, their brother and their relative.
We know that there are thousands of families in Iran who want to see their family members who were abducted and brainwashed by MEK since three decades.
Through this video I want to appeal the PM here in Albania, to our government, to the Americans as well who protect MEK to allow your family members, come to Albania and to see your relatives….”