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The late Sir David Amess remembered in moving ceremony at Ashraf-3, Albania, home to Iran opposition

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Ashraf-3, Albania - An elaborate and moving ceremony was held at Ashraf-3, Albania, home to thousands of members of the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), on October 17, 2021, in a tribute to Sir David Amess, who was brutally murdered on Friday in Leigh-on-Sea, a London suburb.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), attended the ceremony, laid wreath in homage the late David Amess and addressed those in attendance. Senior MEK officials, including the NCRI’s representative in the UK, also paid tribute to Sir David, whose huge portrait was carried by an honor guard on a red carpet to the monument dedicated to the martyrs of Iran’s freedom. 

In her remarks at the event, Mrs. Rajavi paid homage to Amess, saying in part, “We have not gathered here to simply mourn Sir David’s demise. We are also here to celebrate his life and achievements. I firmly believe that he has now joined all those who gave their lives for human rights democracy and justice for which he was a tireless champion.

Indeed, he was the enemy of dictatorships especially mullah’s dictatorship. Therefore, after three decades of support for the Iranian People’s Resistance he is now among martyrs for freedom. Much can be said about Sir David’s character, his kindness, compassion, big heart, moral integrity, principles and values. What struck me the most, during the many meetings with him, was his constant smile and his commitment for human values. In victory or defeat, in good times and bad, he would always smile and tell everyone around him to persevere.”

Noting that the Iranian Resistance owed a huge debt of gratitude to David Amess, Mrs. Rajavi added, “He was active on many fronts. In 2007, he joined 34 of his parliamentary colleagues in the successful legal challenge to the politically motivated terrorism tag on the MEK, which had been done at the behest of the Iranian regime; His relentless efforts to ensure the safety and security of Iran’s combatants of freedom, MEK members, in camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq; And his campaign to ensure their safe relocation to European countries including Albania, beginning in 2012. And he came to Ashraf 3 as soon as he could to pay a visit to MEK members for whose safety he so valiantly campaigned.”

David Jones, a former Brexit minister the co-chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Iran Freedom in Britain issued a statement on behalf of the Committee members, which stated, “Sir David was a champion of human rights and democracy in Iran for more than three decades. He consistently spoke in support of the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations and the Iranian Resistance movement, NCRI. During his time in the parliament, he frequently raised the many serious threats from the regime in Tehran at parliamentary conferences, debates and in Early Days Motions advocating for a firm policy on Iran focused on human rights and holding the regime to account for its violations of those rights and terrorism.” The statement also quoted from Sir David’s remarks on September 6, in which he had said, “One of the proudest things I have ever done in my political career is to support the National Council of Resistance of Iran which calls for the Iranian regime to be replaced with a safer and more democratic government.”

David Amess was a champion of human rights to the very end. In an oped the day before his criminal assassination, he highlighted the involvement of the Iranian regime’s President Ebrahim Raisi in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran and supporting the call by the Anglo-Iranian community to arrest him if attended the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow in November.

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