{"id":13212,"date":"2021-09-11T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T07:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=13212"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:21:41","slug":"my-brother-does-not-enjoy-any-human-rights-in-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/13212","title":{"rendered":"My brother does not enjoy any human rights in MEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra Gholizadeh is the sister of a man who has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ the Cult of Rajavi) for many years. Ali Gholizadeh was very young when he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces in the Iran-Iraq war. He was then kidnapped by the agents of the MEK in Iraq camps. Since then, he has been barred from contacting his family in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Zahra participated the last month\u2019s online conference of Nejat Society speaking for the audience who included former members of the MEK and families of other members who are taken as prisoners in the MEK\u2019s camp in Albania.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13213\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13213\" class=\"wp-image-13213 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gholizade_Zahra.jpg\" alt=\"Zahra Gholizadeh - Ali Gholizadeh sister\" width=\"600\" height=\"628\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zahra Gholizadeh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Introducing herself to the audience Zahra said, \u201cI am here as the representative of my family. My brother was a POW in the early years of his adolescence and the damned Saddam Hussein gave my brother to the Cult of Rajavi that deceived him by dishonest promises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating the actions taken by the conference organizers, she asked all human rights bodies to aid the families who are looking forward to visit their loved ones in the MEK. \u201cWe just want our brother,\u201d she said. \u201cThe cult of Rajavi deprives my brother from his most basic right which is contacting his family.\u201d<br \/>\nExplaining about the efforts made by her family to contact her brother, she said, \u201cI myself traveled to Ashraf three times but the cult did not allow us to visit Ali.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13214\" style=\"width: 562px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13214\" class=\"wp-image-13214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gholizade_Ali_6.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Gholizadeh - MEK hostage in Albania\" width=\"552\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gholizade_Ali_6.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gholizade_Ali_6-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gholizade_Ali_6-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Gholizadeh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Zahra Gholizadeh and her family got pleased when they were informed that Ali was relocated in Albania but \u201cnothing changed\u201d. They were never allowed to travel to Albania to meet thier brother. \u201cWe wrote a lot of letters to my brother but there was no answer,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cIsn\u2019t it the right of my father to know about his son,\u201d she wondered. \u201cWhat a rule, what a religion, what an ethic separates a child from his family?\u201d Calling on the human rights bodies she stated, \u201cMy brother does not enjoy any human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the support of her family for the petition submitted by 42 former members of MEK to the International Court of the Hague, Zahra Gholizadeh expressed hope that the petition would be a preliminary for the release of his brother from the cult of Rajavi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra Gholizadeh is the sister of a man who has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ the Cult of Rajavi) for many years.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24562,599,469,125],"module":[10],"ctype":[],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-13212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organization-members-families","tag-ali-gholizade","tag-mko-bar-reunion-families","tag-nejat-families","tag-nejats-meetings","module-meetings","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}