Hossein Ali Rigi, the brother of Barat Ali Rigi asks him to leave the Mujahedin-Khalq (MEK/ PMOI). Barat has been taken as a hostage by the MEK for over three decades. He has never been allowed by the group leaders to visit his family. In the Video message, his brother asks him to think independently and leave the group in order to have a normal life in the free world.
Hamid Reza Noori has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin-e Khalq
for over 30 years. His family have been looking forward to contact him in all these years. They have sent petitions to the international human rights bodies in order to demand his liberation from the MEK.
They have also published several open letters in the hope that Hamid Reza will read them some day. Being stuck in the cult-like MEK, Hamid Reza has never been allowed by the group leaders to contact his family. This is the latest letter to Hamid Reza written by his daughter Somayeh who is 34 years old.
My Dear father,
I hope you are doing well. I have so far sent you several letters but you have never responded.
My beloved father,
I miss you so much. When ever I miss you, I begin writing a few words to you. I have never felt you as a father. When I was a kid and a primary school student, I would see the fathers of my classmates who dropped them at school. I always envied them wondering where my father is. In your absence, I grew up with so much regret.
I have already told you in my previous letters that I am married and have two children. I show your photo to my kids; they become happy to see you and ask when grandpa will to come over? I have no clear answer to give them. I just tell them to be patient. “Grandpa will come,” I tell them.
Dear father,
I ask you to release yourself from the Mujahedin-e Khalq and get back to your family. We are here waiting for you with open arms.
Your daughter, Samaneh
Samaneh Noori and her father Hamidreza Noori; hostage of the MEK
Nadeali Torabi, the brother of two female members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq call on the international community to aid him visit his sisters. The Torabis have been suffering through 40 years of involvement with the MEK.
One of their brothers GhorbaniAli was killed under torture in the MEK’s prisons and their two sisters, Masoumeh and Maryam, are still under the suppressive ruling of Maryam Rajavi in the group’s headquarters, Ashraf 3 in Albania.
Mohammad Reza Torabi, the son of Ghorbanali, left the MEK 5 years ago. His freedom from Ashraf 3 was a light of hope for uncle Nadeali. He is now making efforts to draw the attention of the international community and human rights bodies to the case of his beloved sisters who have been taken as hostages by the Rajavis for about 4 decades.
Nadeali Torabi demand to visit his sisters outside the Cult of Rajavi
When the MEK was located in Iraq, Nadeali traveled to Camp Ashraf several times. Except for one time the group leaders never allowed him to visit his sisters. The only time that Masoomeh and Maryam were allowed to visit their brother, they were being supervised by their commanders and eventually the ex-wife of Ghorban – previously forced to divorce— got mad at Nadeali because he wanted his sisters to keep in touch with family. Since then, they have never been allowed to contact each other.
Today, Nadeali is looking forward to a way to contact his sisters whose basic rights are violated in an isolated camp in the European territory. He sends letters to human rights bodies and the international organizations in order to demand that the human dignity of his family and all families whose loved ones are taken as hostages under the destructive Cult of Rajavi, be respected.
Mansoor Rahdar has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin-e Khalq for 35 years. His family have not had any contact with him since his mandatory recruitment by the MEK.
Mansoor was a young soldier from Gilan, fighting in Iran-Iraq war when in 1988 he was taken as a hostage by the MEK agents in the war fronts in Mehran region, South-West of Iran. Once he was captured in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, he was never allowed to contact his family in Iran.
Family of Mansoor Rahdar, MEK hostage, languishing for 35 years
Mansoor’s family have so far written several open letters published by Nejat Society in the hope that he will see the letters someday. In her most recent letter addressing Mansoor, his sister, Zahra wrote of her concerns over the health of the brother who is now an elderly residing in the MEK’s military-like camp in Manez, Albania.
“Why don’t you answer our letters?” Zahra Rahdar asks her brother. “Are you alive at all? I wrote you several letters and there was no answer. Even, three years ago, after I wrote you that our father had died you did not give any reaction.”
Considering that their mother is too old to wait for Mansoor, Zahra asks him to call them as soon as he can. As always, she leaves her phone number at the bottom of the letter in the hope that Mansoor will break the mental bars of the Cult of Rajavi and contact his family soon.
Sohrab Afshar, the father of Meysam Afshar visited the office of Nejat Society in Zanjan. He once more asked for the release of his son from the camp of Mujahedin-e Khalq in Albania.
Maysam was deceived by the MEK recruiters when he was a teenager. He has been in the MEK for over 20 years. His father has so far written so many letters to the International human rights bodies and the Albanian Prime Minister demanding his release and at least the permission to contact him.
The father of Meysam Afshar and Eskandari the head of Nejat Society Mazandaran office
Sohrab is concerned on mental and physical health of his son who has been taken as a hostage by Maryam Rajavi and has not been allowed to contact his family during the long years he has been kept in the cult-like atmosphere of the MEK camps in Iraq and Albania.
In his recent visit to Nejat Society, Sohrab called on the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights to take action for the release of his son and to pave the way for the visit of his family with Meysam.
On the occasion of Yalda Night, Zahra Gholizadeh published a letter to her beloved brother Ali, a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq.
As an historic tradition, the Winter solstice is celebrated by the Iranian families, every year. Family members, parents and siblings gather together to celebrate the start of winter. As well as many families of MEK members, the Gholizadehs miss a member of their family: Ali.
Ali Gholizadeh was a POW of Iran-Iraq war. He was a young voluntary soldier in the war when he was imprisoned by Iraqi forces. He was then deceived by the MEK recruiters to join them in their notorious Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
This is one of the numerous letters Zahra has so far written for Ali in the hope of the least likely chance that her brother will be able to break through the mental and physical bars of the MEK and read the letters.
Zahra Gholizade
She writes of her languishing family that has gone through so many Yaldas in the absence of their beloved Ali. “I wish you were here with us this year and we would talk about all those years that you were far,” she writes. “My dear Ali! we miss you. We cannot help crying when we think of you. My dear brother! missing your visit is very difficult and suffocating for us.”
Mahin Najafi, the sister of Mohammad Jaafar Najafi, member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq wrote a letter to the special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Javid Rehman.
Mohammad Jaafar Najafi has been taken as hostage by the leaders of the MEK for over three decades. He has never been allowed by the group leaders to contact his family in Iran. “My brother lives in the MEK’s camp in Albania or in better words, he is imprisoned in the MEK,” Mahin writes in the letter.
Mohammad Jaafar was a soldier serving for the Iranian army in Iran-Iraq war. He was taken as a war prisoner in 1988 and eventually he was taken as a hostage by the MEK recruiters working in Iraqi camps.
Mahin Najafi tells Javid Rehman that under the rule of the MEK leaders, her brother is deprived from freedom, the right to get married and have a family. “Are you informed that the MEK brainwashes its members?” she asks Rehman. “You must pursue the situation of human rights inside the MEK.”
As she states, this is the third letter Mahin has so far emailed to the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran. She warns the rapporteur on the abuses the MEK leaders commit in their modern slavery system. “The few thousand people who live in the MEK camp are not allowed to access the outside world, to contact their families,” she writes. “They are deprived from any form of freedom. Isn’t it violation of human rights? How long do I and other families of MEK hostages have to suffer separation from our loved ones.”
Mahin Najafi ends her letter by asking Javid Rehman to send a delegation in order to visit the MEK camp in Albania and to interview each member of the group in person.
Mahrokh Rabani, the wife of Massoud Toosi Bakhsh has not visited her husband for 35 years. Massoud Toosi Bakhsh is located in the headquarters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq in Albania. He has not been allowed to contact his family since he was recruited by the group in 1988.
Mahrokh Rabani was interviewed by the Iranian media in the recent event held by Nejat Society for the first public presentation of the documentary “from Tirana to Tehran”. As well as other families who took part in the event, Mahrokh spoke of her own experience of being the wife of a member of the MEK.
“My Husband was an educated person,” she said. “He was brainwashed in the MEK, it was like some drugs were injected into his body to make him forget his past life.”
Massoud Toosi Bakhsh family
Mahrokh Rabani who has grown up his two sons, Milad and Mehran, alone, continued, “My husband was a lovely man. When he was taken as a war prisoner my children were 6 months old and 6 years old.”
When the MEK was located in Iraq, Mahrokh and her sons traveled to Iraq several times to meet Massoud. They picketed behind the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, Iraq. They were never allowed to visit Massoud. They were even insulted by the group agents.
“I climbed a rail in front of Camp Ashraf and shouted the name of my husband,” she recounts. “My husband must have heard me but the MEK leaders pressured him under torture and did not allow him to meet us.”
Some years ago, MEK’s propaganda media published an article allegedly signed by Massoud Toosi in which he accused his family of being agents of the Iranian intelligence ministry and want to kill MEK members!
“Mother Saadat” addressed the audience in the premier for Nejat Society’s new documentary, “From Tirana to Tehran”. Hamael Ghanizadeh called Mother Saadat is the mother of three members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq who has not visited her children for over three decades.
Hamael Ghanizadeh aka Mother Saadat , a suffering mother whose children are at the MEK camp in Albania
Mother Saadat mourns in the absence of Mehri, Mahmoud and Nahid Saadat who left home to join the MEK in Iraq during the 1980s. This heart-broken mother used to be a sympathizer of the MEK but now she hates the MEK because she has come to know that her loved ones in Camp Ashraf 3 near Tirana, Albania, are kept there in ignorance from what is going on in the outside world.
During the movie premier, once she was up on the stage to take photos, Mother Saadat told the audience:
“I have not seen my children for 35 years. I raised them with difficulties and now I miss them a lot. They do not write letters and they do not call me. I am addressing Maryam Rajavi. Do you believe in another Islam? Are you allowed to get married with two husbands but our children are deprived from marrying and visiting their parents? I am an old heart-broken mother. I might pass away and never see my children.”
Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh, was a key speaker at the premier of the new documentary produced by Nejat Society. Last week, the first public presentation of “From Tirana to Tehran” was held by Nejat Society. The movie is a documentary based on the grieves of families of those held as hostages in the camp of the Mujahedin-e Khalq in Tirana, Albania. Soraya has been an active member of Nejat Society for the long years of separation from her son.
Soraya Abdollahi, who have been looking forward to contacting his son, hijacked by the MEK, addressed the audience: “Our beloved children are in captivity of the destructive cult of Rajavi and the monstrous Mujahedin. We, mothers, picketed in Iraq for 4 years only to hug our beloved children but they did not allow us.”
Expressing pleasure for those who have managed to escape the group in recent years she said: “My son has been taken as a hostage in the MEK for 20 years. I and other families have written a large number of letters to human rights organizations but there has been no response. However, we are still standing firmly calling for the release of our loved ones.”
Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh
Soraya Abdollahi has formed a foundation called “Mothers Organization”, members of which are mothers of those who are taken as hostages in the MEK’s headquarters in Albania. “Via our organization we have sent several letters to the International bodies asking for aid,” Abdollahi said.
The mother of Amir Aslan spoke of an intense and prolonged grief that cannot be spoken: the fact that a large number of mothers of MEK hostages are too old to wait for the release of their beloved children. “So many mothers passed away such as the mother of Hamid Atabay whose son has just left the group after 35 years but she is no more in this world to see her son,” she stated. “How do human rights bodies neglect such grieves?”
Amir Aslan Hasanzadeh is a member the MEK recruited by the group in 2002 (1381) when he was 21 years old. Now he is 42 years old. He is not married because as well as all members of the MEK, he has been kept in isolation as a jihadist by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. His mother Sorayah has made efforts to meet him but the MEK leaders have so far manipulated the international community and the Albanian government preventing her and hundreds of other Iranian mothers from contacting their children.
