{"id":11400,"date":"2021-01-16T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T07:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:00:30","slug":"protest-against-mek-in-albanian-city-manza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/11400","title":{"rendered":"Protest against MEK in Albanian city, Manza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of residents of the city of Manza in the Albanian province of Durres went out to protest against the members of the People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran who use this city as their camp called Ashraf 3, which is witnessing an outbreak of the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"700\" height=\"382\" class=\"wp-image-11401 size-full aligncenter\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albania-People.jpeg\"alt=\"Albanian protesters\"width=\"700\"height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albania-People.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albania-People-300x164.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Albanian news sites reported, Thursday, that&#8221;residents of the city of Manza went out today in a protest in the city against the existence of the MEK because of the organization&#8217;s occupation of the public cemetery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The protesters demanded, according to what was reported by the Ashraf News correspondent, the Albanian authorities to stop the violations of the MEK\u2019s leadership and its exploitation of the public<\/p>\n<p>One of the protesters said in an interview with Ashraf News,&#8221;This space (the cemetery) should be available only to the indigenous people and not to those who came from Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a related context, and as usual, the MEK claimed that&#8221;the protests that took place in the city of Manza against it were small and that they were instigated by members working for the Iranian regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The organization claimed, through one of its leaders, that&#8221;the coexistence between the MEK members and the residents of Manza is very friendly, but certain people in the village are being abused by the Iranian regime,&#8221;considering the protest stand as a security threat to the MEK members.<\/p>\n<p>Albanian media sources informed the correspondent of Ashraf News in Tirana, that the leadership of the MEK exerted pressure on the&#8221;Aura News&#8221;channel to delete the news of protests against it in the city of Manza.<\/p>\n<p>The sources associated with Aura News said,&#8221;The MEK managed through exerting heavy pressure to delete the news regarding the issue of the cemetery in the Albanian city of Manza,&#8221;adding that&#8221;the channel bowed to the leadership of the MEK and removed the news from its official 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