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
The brother of Behzad Farrokhi, a hostage of the Mujahedin-e Khalq declared his support for the six arrested members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania.
In a visit to Nejat Society Mazandaran office, Hamid Farrokhi whose brother, Behzad have been taken as a hostage by the MEK for 35 years expressed his sorrow for the detention of six defectors of the group who are now members of ASILA.
Behzad was a soldier serving in Iran-Iraq war when he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraq forces and he was then recruited by the MEK through their fraudulent tactics in 1988. “They took my brother to their camp, Ashraf and we have not been able to contact him since then,” he said. Behzad is now in the MEK’s headquarters in Albania called Ashraf 3.
Hamid Farrokhi and the head of Nejat Society Mazandaran office
Regarding the arrest of six former members of the MEK who had founded the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) by the Albanian border and immigration Police, Hamid suggests that their detention is an “inhuman act” that has been done under the influence of the MEK in the Albanian government. “The MEK makes efforts to pressure ASILA in order to stop their revealing activities against the group,” he supposed.
He expressed his support for ASILA association as an entity that gives his family the hope for liberation of his brother from the bars of the Cult of Rajavi. “As a family member whose loved one is taken as a hostage in the Cult of Rajavi, I condemn what the Albanian government committed against six members of ASILA,” Hamid Farrokhi stated. “I am seriously concerned about the conditions of the detained members and I ask the Albanian authorities to release them immediately so that they can join their families.”
Amir Mohammadi Zadeh, the brother of Fereshteh Mohammadi Zadeh, a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), called on the International human rights bodies for the release of his sister. Fereshteh has been taken as a hostage by the group for near four decades.
“My parents have been languishing in the absence of Fereshteh in all these long years,” Amir told Nejat Society Golestan’s representative. “They are old and sick now and they miss Fereshteh a lot. They need her more than any time.”
Fereshteh Mohammadi’s brother wrote letters to the intentional human rights bodies for the nth time. “I ask the international human rights community to make a decision and take action in order to aid my parents visit their beloved daughter –who is imprisoned behind the mental and physical bars of the MEK– while they are still alive,” he wrote.
Fereshteh Mohammadi zadeh
Born in 1965, Fereshteh married her cousin, Ali Akbar Mohammadi, before turning 20 years old. In 1982, as sympathizers of the MEK, together with her husband, Fereshteh left Iran and took refuge in Germany where she gave birth to her daughter, Alan. They eventually joined the MEK in its military headquarters in Iraq.
Alan Mohammadi
In 1991, Alan Mohammadi was separated from her parents at Camp Ashraf and was smuggled to Germany where she was kept in the MEK safe houses and foster houses along with other MEK children. She was only thirteens when she was smuggled back to Iraq to serve as a child soldier in the MEK’s so-called National Liberation Army (NLA). Alan was forced to wear hijab and military uniform and to receive military trainings. She was not able to tolerate the suffocating atmosphere of the cult of Rajavi. Thus, she committed suicide while she was on guard duty in the guard tower at Camp Ashraf.
Fereshteh Mohammadi Zadeh, the mother of Alan, got to know about the heartbreaking death of her daughter from an announcement on the walls of Ashraf while they were both residing in the same camp. (Based on memoirs of Amin Golmaryami, former child soldier of the MEK)
Fereshteh is now in the MEK’s headquarters called Ashraf 3, located in the village of Manez, North of Tirana, Albania. She is not allowed to contact her family in Golestan province, in Northern Iran. Her brother Amir hopes that Fereshteh will notice that her daughter was killed because of the MEK’s destructive ideology and take a step to leave the group before her parents die.
Families of Nejat Society office in Golestan province asked the Albanian officials to release the detained members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA).
Families of the Golestani members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, who are taken as hostages in Camp Ashraf 3, the MEK’s headquarters in Albania wrote a letter to the authorities of the Albanian government.
In an open letter addressing Prime Minister Edi Rama and the Minister of Interior Bledar Cuci, they asked for the immediate release of six members of ASILA. Hassan Heirani, Gholamreza Shekari, Ali Hajari, Mehdi Soleimani, Hassan Shahbaz and Ehsan Bidi have been detained by the Albanian immigration and border department for over 5 weeks without being accused of any crime.
“Members of ASILA established their association under the official permission of your government,” they wrote. “However, they were arrested by the Police of your country and were detained in Karrec detention center which is for illegal refugees. They are deprived from the most basic life facilities.”
As victims of the MEK’s cult-like system, families ask the Albanian authorities to liberate the detained members of ASILA because the association is their only hope in Albania that may help them get news of their loved ones captured in Camp Ashraf 3.
Families of members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq signed an open letter to the Albanian government of the event to launch the new documentary produced by Nejat Society. On the sidelines of the opening ceremony of “From Tirana to Tehran” the families whose loved ones are taken as hostages by the MEK in Albania and former members of the group signed the letter calling on the Albanian authorities to aid them release their beloveds from the group.
Recounting some of the human rights violations committed by the MEK leaders against their own members, the signatories of the letter declared their concerns over the situation of their loved ones isolated in the MEK’s camp called Ashraf 3 in Manez, a village in north of the Albanian capital, Tirana.
Open letter by families of MEK hostages to Albanian authorities
The families who have been looking forward to contact their loved ones in the MEK for many years now, ask the Albanian government to prevent the MEK leaders from violating the most basic rights of their members including their right to contact their families freely, to marry, to express their opinion and to live a normal life.
Expressing their support for Nejat Society, of which the mission is to aid save the MEK members, the signatories of the letter condemn the MEK’s attitude to violate the rights of its own members. “By signing this petition, we expect the Albanian government and the international human rights bodies to pursue the case of our loved ones and to be responsive to our demands,” they write.
They mention the misinformation launched by the MEK’s propaganda against families. However, they emphasize that the emotional bond with their loved ones is unbreakable. They state, “We are still longing for liberation of and visiting our loved ones despite the MEK’s poisonous propaganda, insults and accusations against us.”
Families of the hostages in Camp Ashraf 3 underlined their determination to keep on their efforts to break through the mental and physical bars that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have built around their loved ones. In order to achieve this goal, they highlighted the necessity of being accompanied by enlightened and open-minded and unbiased persons, organizations and media.
The letter notifies the case of at least 200 residents of Camp Ashraf 3 who have declared their defection from the group but they have not been allowed to leave the camp. Instead, they have been quarantined by the group commanders. “We have serious concerns on the mental and physical conditions of these people and we warn about the outcomes of the MEK’s maltreatments against them asking for their immediate release,” it put.
According to the families who signed the letter, regarding the recent incidents in Iran, the MEK has gotten more isolated among the Iranian public opinion than it was before and this indicates that the group can not be considered as an alternative to the current government in Iran. Therefore, the group should not be granted the opportunity to abuse the most basic rights of its members anymore.
Reviewing the MEK’s atrocities and acts of terror in Iran and its treasonous siding with Saddam Hussein during Iran-Iraq war, the signatories warn the Albanian authorities about the MEK’s claims for properties as it claimed for possession of its headquarters in Iraqi territory. “In our opinion, the history is repeating itself,” they state. “We are witnessing MEK’s building another headquarters imposing pressure on the host country. What we deeply perceive is the victimization of the Albanians’ national security and interests by the MEK’s evil policies.”
The letter was signed by the families of MEK hostages and former members of the group who had attended the event for the first public presentation of the documentary “From Tirana to Tehran” held by Nejat Society. It was also supported by those families of MEK victims who could not manage to take part in the event. Their messages of support are published on Nejat Society website.
“From Tirana to Tehran” is a documentary based on the stories told by families of members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). The documentary depicts the grieves and suffering of families of those who are taken as hostages by the MEK leaders in Camp Ashraf 3, in Albania. The accounts of these families are narrated through a trip from Tirana to Tehran. The travelers are three Albanian members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA).
Gjergji Thanasi, Dashamir Mersuli and Vladimir Veisi are the Albanian members of ASILA who were invited by Nejat Society to visit Iran on the last days of Spring, 2022.
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They arrived in Tehran on June 9th and began a journey of listening to parents and siblings who open up, reassuring them to aid them in order to end the imprisonment of their loved ones isolated in the Cult of Maryam Rajavi.
During their trip to Iran, they visited a few cities including Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashhad where they had meetings with heart-broken families of members of the MEK who have been looking forward to contact their loved ones barred physically and mentally in the group.
From Tehran to Tirana portrays the efforts of Nejat Society and ASILA along with anguishing families of MEK members to aid the hostages’ release from Ashraf 3.
“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.
Fatemeh Mohabbati, is the mother of Azadeh Saboor. Azadeh is a member of the Rajavi cult. In 2000, Azadeh and her husband were deceived by the MEK and were captured by them. During all these years, the mother has had no contact with her daughter.
Ms. Mohabbati asks the Albanian Authorities to accelerate a way to visit her daughter,Azadeh Saboor.
