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NCRI – Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezi has refused to attend his own ‘show trial’ and branded the regime’s courts as illegitimate.<\/p>\nNCRI – Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezi has refused to attend his own ‘show trial’ and branded the regime’s courts as illegitimate.<\/p>\n
Moezi was to be tried on Sunday (February 17) by Salaveti – known as the ‘judge of death’ – but he did\u00a0 not attend because ‘the judges themselves were condemned’. The trial was held in Moezi’s absence.<\/p>\n
In a message from prison, Moezi wrote: “As this trial is a show trial and the trials are crimes in themselves, I, Ali Moezi, will not take part and any verdict that is issued can be handed down to my lawyer.”
He also wrote in a letter published recently: “In recent years, a number of my countrymen have been unjustly executed.<\/p>\n
“These courts are illegitimate from the very outset.\u00a0 Its judges and prosecutors are themselves condemned.”<\/p>\n
Moezi – a political prisoner from the 1980s and suffering from kidney disease – is currently in prison for visiting two children in Camp Ashraf in Iraq where thousands of members of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) used to reside before majority of them forcibly being evicted to Camp Liberty near Baghdad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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