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Bijan Pooladrag<\/p><\/div>\n
Here\u2019s an example: In recent days, Albanian police arrested an Iranian man, Bijan Pooladrag, with links to the MEK. The MEK immediately issued a statement disowning him and labelled him \u201can agent of the Iranian regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)\u201d. In fact, according to eyewitnesses Pooladrag was arrested straight after coming out of the MEK offices in Tirana where he had gone to get his salary. This is because, although still working for MEK, he refused to live inside their camp. In special circumstances and on a needs-must basis MEK allows members to live outside the compound on condition that they do not speak publicly about their experiences with MEK. The financial allowance they give is conditional on the subject continuing to work for MEK on computer messaging and trolling.<\/p>\n
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Bijan Pooladrag<\/p><\/div>\n
The arrest came about when Pooladrag\u2019s landlady and her daughter became suspicious that he was using their phones and computers without their knowledge. The Prosecution case states that he is \u201csuspected of committing the criminal offense of \u2018Illegal interception of computer data\u2019, \u2018Interference in computer data\u2019, \u2018Misuse of equipment\u2019 and \u2018Interference in computer systems\u2019 provided by Articles 293 \/ a, b, c, of the Criminal Code.\u201d Pooladrag allegedly utilized unauthorised phones to open accounts on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Telegram, which were used in Farsi language. This exactly matches with the MEK demand that members like Pooladrag who live outside the camp continue with social media work to get paid. It is also clear to those who know him that Pooladrag is not computer literate enough to set up his own networks and systems. These will have been done for him by MEK at some stage. Clearly, Pooladrag was engaged in clicking for Heshmat Alavi.<\/p>\n
For the absence of doubt, Pooladrag is a hardcore MEK member. He was injured in the September 1st massacre in 2013 in Iraq (number 24 on this list) as one of the 100 special members tasked with holding Camp Ashraf, willing to die for their leader. Since arriving in Albania, although he lives outside the camp, Pooladrag has made no attempt to contact his family in Iran (number 34 on this list), a requirement of MEK membership. His sister is still searching for contact.<\/p>\n
According to former MEK members who knew Pooladrag, he was warned several times by MEK about his behaviour outside the camp. He was told \u2018you can\u2019t go to the seaside and post \u2018naked\u2019 pictures of yourself and expect us not to do something\u2019. It seems that MEK have involved SHISH to set him up for punishment. Ironically, the punishment for these alleged crimes in Albania is 7 years imprisonment. The same sentence with which the courts of Saddam Hussein threatened those who wanted to leave MEK \u2013 seven years in Abu Ghraib prison for entering Iraq illegally. Interesting how quickly and seamlessly the Albanian judicial system has taken over this role of punishing MEK\u2019s enemies.<\/p>\n
Anyone who thinks that the MEK\u2019s words are not full of lies and misinformation is sadly naive. MEK is one of those strange entities that not only invent their own conspiracy theories but wholeheartedly believe in them too.<\/p>\n
Evidence of MEK influence over police behaviour can also be found in the statement about Pooladrag. As though to deliberately confuse the issue, among its list of \u201cMOIS agents\u201d who live in Albania, MEK has included one Italian Iranian Daniel Kasraei who is well known as a MEK go between, deported back to Italy for \u2018spying\u2019. However, the others listed are genuine former members of MEK, who have since denounced the group for its human rights abuses. Their backgrounds are interesting of themselves. Take the case of Ehsan Bidi. The MEK claim he was deported earlier this year. In fact, Bidi was, at the behest of the MEK, subject to illegal detention for a year, illegal trafficking by Albanian police over the Greek border in August this year, followed by a hasty return to Tirana with an apology by the chief of police after lawyers intervened. He was happily living in Tirana with his friends until the MEK again issued a statement on October 14th that Bidi had been deported. Three days later, Albania\u2019s police again placed Bidi in a detention centre \u201cfor a few days\u201d and asked him to sign deportation papers. The MEK\u2019s interference in the internal situation of Albania is becoming untenable.<\/p>\n
Another former MEK member mentioned in the statement is Hassan Heyrani who, according to the MEK, \u2018hangs out\u2019 at a caf\u00e9 in Tirana. In fact, Heyrani is manager of the Faranak Caf\u00e9. Like Ehsan Bidi, Heyrani represents the MEK\u2019s worst nightmare: a former member who is successfully recovered and standing on their own feet, working and living a free life since escaping the cult.<\/p>\n
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