The text of the letter is as follows:

Dear Dr. Tedros Adhanom
Director General of the World Health Organization
Greetings and best regards,

Congratulations on the occasion of the 7th of April, World Health Day, to you and all your colleagues around the world and wishing a healthy and disease-free world on the year 2021 which is named”Year of the Health and Care Workers”, with the slogan of”Building a fairer, healthier world”.

We would like to inform you that:
Covid-19 virus disease has taken a heavy toll on the world body, and its impact on countries that were previously considered vulnerable before the pandemic has been far greater. These communities, which are more prone to disease, do not have access to adequate health care services and as a result, face many difficulties in controlling the virus.

Your Excellency,
You are well aware that one of these countries is Albania. A country that has housed about 2,500 members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in a remote and isolated camp outside Tirana.
Since the outbreak of the disease, there is no exact information about the health status of the people living in the camp, despite numerous letters and expressions of concern from the families about the ambiguous health status of the camp, as well as the news that several people died of Covid-19 virus.
On the anniversary of the establishment of the World Health Organization, we, the families of those stationed in the MEK Camp in Albania, are increasingly concerned.

Therefore, in line with this year’s slogan of the World Health Organization, we desperately ask you to help us families to contact and get information about the situation of our loved ones in Albania.
A group of families of members of the MEK from Yazd province in Iran

CC:
Honorable representative of the World Health Organization in Iran
Honorable representative of the World Health Organization in Albania

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The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the WHO in Albania
Greetings and best regards

I am Mohammad Ebrahim Zarei, the brother of Gholam Hossein Zarei, who is now in a closed and remote camp of MEK in Albania with no connections to the outside world.

My family and I have not seen my brother for many years and we have not heard his voice on the phone and we have not even received a message from him, and this always bothers us.

But now the news worries us a lot, and that is that on the one hand, my brother is probably infected with the Covid-19 virus and is living in very acute conditions, and on the other hand, the health conditions inside the camp are unfavorable due to the group life.

We, the family of Gholam Hossein Zarei, have no desire other than hearing his voice and learning about his health. Of course, in support of the MEK, Albania does not grant us Iranians visas and does not allow us to travel. The MEK does not even allow a single phone call to its members.

I ask you not to neglect any action that is conceivable and fruitful in order to alleviate my and my family’s concerns, so that news of my brother reaches us and communication is possible.

Mohammad Ibrahim Zarei
Iran – Khorasan Razavi – Sabzevar
January 2021

Copy to:
Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the World Health Organization in Albania
Greetings and best regards

I am Esmail Taherkhani, the brother of Issa Taherkhani, who is apparently at this time in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania.

My brother was captured by Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq war and was deceitfully transferred to the MEK camp in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule. I have not heard from my brother since then and the family has not been allowed to contact him.

Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease and its epidemic all over the world, especially in Albania, according to the latest media reports, several dozen members of this group have died of the Covid-19 virus in recent weeks. They were buried in the local Manëz (Manzë) cemetery in Durrës, Albania.

The MEK, which operates a camp on the outskirts of Tirana, does not allow journalists and doctors to enter the area and works with patients with coronavirus disease and deaths outside the protocols of the World Health Organization and the Albanian government.

This has raised our concerns about the health of a large number of members, most of whom are elderly and over 60 years old. We have to wait for a humanitarian catastrophe in the Manëz area of Tirana and endanger the health of hundreds of thousands of people in this area and its neighboring areas, because the camp where the MEK members are based is completely closed and people have group life and are not allowed to have communication with their families. Also, the Albanian government does not grant visas to Iranians at the request of the MEK leaders to travel to that country and follow the issue closely.

I desperately urge you not to neglect any action that is imagined in order to alleviate the worries of me and my expectant family, so that news of my brother will reach us and we will be able to communicate. Please do not hesitate to take any action and follow up in this regard.

Thanks a lot
Esmail Taherkhani
Qazvin – Iran

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The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the WHO in Albania

Greetings and best regards,

I am Zahra Shahbaz Mansouri, daughter of Reza Shahbaz Mansouri.
My father is currently in the MEK camp in Albania. He left Iran years ago to find a job and more income. We later found out that he was deceived by the elements of the MEK and transferred to Iraq.

In all these years, we have not met him or even heard his voice, and it is the ultimate wish of every child to be able to communicate with his father and be informed of his condition.

You know that even in the most dreadful prisons in the world, and in the case of the most dangerous prisoners, families are allowed to contact the prisoner. But we are also deprived of this minimum possibility of meeting.
Who can help us deprived families? To which international body should we take our grievances to support us? Does anyone in the world pay attention to our rights?

Most importantly, my father has the infection of Covid-19 virus at the MEK camp in Albania and he is in critical condition. The sanitary facilities inside the camp are not so good due to the closed group life and many deaths have been reported so far.

I desperately ask you not to neglect any action that can be taken to alleviate my family’s worries.please help us get news of my father conditions and be allowed to contact him.

Surely you know a child’s worries about his father when he is sick. Please understand how we must be feeling and do not hesitate to pursue this issue.

Thanks and best regards,
Zahra Shahbaz Mansouri
Mashhad, Iran

Copy to:
Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Mr. Mohammad Ebrahim Haddadi Moqaddam, brother of Mahmoud Haddadi Moqaddam, trapped in the MEK camp in Albania, wrote a letter to the World Health Organization in Albania expressing concern over his brother’s health.

The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the World Health Organization in Albania
Greetings and best regards
I am Ebrahim Haddadi Moqaddam, brother of Mahmoud Haddadi Moqaddam. My brother is now in a closed, remote camp of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania with no connections to the outside world.
It is needless to say that my family and I have not seen or heard from my brother for many years, and we have not even received a message from him, and this always bothers us.

Now the news worries us a lot, and that is that on the one hand my brother is probably infected with the Covid-19 virus and he is in a very severe condition, and on the other hand the health conditions inside the camp are extremely unfavorable.

We, the family of Mahmoud Haddadi Moqaddam, have no desire other than hearing his voice and learning about his health. Of course, Albania does not give us visas in support of the MEK and does not allow us to travel. The MEK does not even allow a single phone call to its members.

I urge you not to neglect any action that is conceivable and fruitful in order to alleviate the concerns of me and my family, so that news of my brother reaches us and communication is possible.

You must know very well how a brother feels in such a situation. Is it acceptable to prevent MEK members from communicating with their families in these circumstances? Isn’t this a clear violation of basic human rights?

Mohammad Ebrahim Haddadi Moqaddam
Torbat Heydariyeh – Khorasan Razavi – Iran

Copy to:
Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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