{"id":250709,"date":"2021-11-13T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T14:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=250709"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:58:37","slug":"iran-trial-of-former-prison-official-in-albania-and-shocking-testimonies-of-mek-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-trial-of-former-prison-official-in-albania-and-shocking-testimonies-of-mek-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Trial of Former Prison Official in Albania and Shocking Testimonies of MEK Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-\u2014-November-10-2021-min\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-250711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-\u2014-November-10-2021-min.jpg\" alt=\"Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-November-10-2021-min\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-\u2014-November-10-2021-min.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-\u2014-November-10-2021-min-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-\u2014-November-10-2021-min-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-\u2014-November-10-2021-min-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Trial-of-Hamid-Noury-the-Executioner-of-the1988-Massacre-at-the-Durres-Court-in-Albania-\u2014-November-10-2021-min-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 37<sup>th<\/sup> session in the trial of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury took place in Albania on Friday. It was the third session held in the Balkan country, as part of a trial that is being prosecuted by the Swedish judiciary. The temporary change of venue was requested by prosecutors in order to hear testimony from seven eyewitnesses who reside in Albania in Ashraf 3, established by exiled members of the People\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">Mojahedin Organization<\/a> of Iran (PMOI\/MEK). Proceedings are expected to return to Stockholm after next week, and the trial is currently scheduled to conclude in April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The testimony from residents of Ashraf 3 was deemed important largely because the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> was the primary target in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners which Noury took part in in 1988.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" rel=\"noopener\">National Council<\/a> of Resistance of Iran has held a number of conferences in recent months to bring further attention to that crime and to urge the international prosecution of known perpetrators. Presently, Noury is the only person to face prosecution anywhere for his role in the massacre, and that role was allegedly much smaller than that played by higher-profile officials. Chief among these is the Iranian regime\u2019s president Ebrahim Raisi, who was inaugurated in August right around the time the Noury trial began.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Lashgari would summon the prisoners one by one, asking about their charges. Anyone who said \u2018MEK supporter\u2019 was handed over to Hamid Abbasi [Noury], who took them to the Death Corridor and the Death Commission in groups of seven or eight,\u201d Mehdizadeh said.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1988Massacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1988Massacre<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i5eZJIXye6\">pic.twitter.com\/i5eZJIXye6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1459129797536215050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi was reportedly one of four officials who sat on the Tehran \u201cdeath commission\u201d that was tasked with implementing a fatwa regarding the MEK, issued by the regime\u2019s founder and first supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini. That religious edict declared members of the country\u2019s leading opposition group to be inherently guilty of \u201cenmity against God\u201d and thus subject to the death penalty. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/how-the-iran-1988-massacre-started\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Khomeini\u2019s instructions<\/a> to the death commission were to \u201cannihilate the enemies of Islam immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This language has been cited by scholars of human rights and international law in recent NCRI conferences, to support holding Raisi to account for genocide. The charge of genocide was mentioned by MEK members and supporters this week, in comments to the media outside of the Albanian court, and in a separate gathering held at Ashraf 3 to commemorate the victims of the 1988 massacre and share stories among the survivors who are not participating directly in the Noury trial. Meanwhile, those who are participating shared equally broad-ranging accounts of their experiences, some of which noted personal interactions with Raisi as well as with Noury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Thursday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/the-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran-eyewitness-accounts-majid-saheb-jam\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Majid Saheb Jam<\/a> recalled seeing Noury at Gohardashst Prison calling up prisoners for execution in groups. On Friday, Asghar Mehdidzadeh offered similar testimony, noting that at one point he spent five consecutive days in the \u201cdeath corridor\u201d and saw prisoners being taken out in groups of between 10 and 15, approximately 15 times per day. Both men recalled that many detainees were forced to watch their fellows being hanged, and Saheb Jam even recounted having been subjected to a mock execution after becoming one of the very few political prisoners to avoid a capital sentence from the death commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The testimony affirmed that Noury was directly involved in that mock execution, having ordered several prisoners to line up facing the gallows before abruptly sending them back to their cells. Stories like this one underscore the fact that Noury was accused not only of facilitating mass executions but also of torturing political detainees both during the 1988 massacre and throughout his career as a prison official. Many of the witnesses in his trial have emphasized that their mistreatment was accelerating for months before the massacre began in earnest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/the-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran-eyewitness-accounts-asghar-mehdizadeh\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Asghar Mehdidzadeh<\/a> reported having witnessed Noury\u2019s participation in the torture of other prisoners, as well as being victimized by him personally. On one occasion months prior to the massacre, he said, he saw Noury \u201ctaking a number of the younger inmates to the courtyard\u201d in winter and \u201cforcing them to crawl on the ground in that cold.\u201d Then, at the height of the massacre in early August, Mehdidzadeh recognized Noury among several officials who stormed the cell where he was being held in solitary confinement and took him out, blindfolded, to be tortured after they accused him of being \u201cstill firm in his support\u201d for the MEK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: Eyewitness Accounts, Asghar Mehdizadeh\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_TB5BdTz5-BE\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FTB5BdTz5-BE%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TB5BdTz5-BE\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT35M10S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-22T20:42:31Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_TB5BdTz5-BE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FTB5BdTz5-BE%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: Eyewitness Accounts, Asghar Mehdizadeh<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TB5BdTz5-BE\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FTB5BdTz5-BE%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: Eyewitness Accounts, Asghar Mehdizadeh\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Read More: I am Asghar Mehdizadeh, born in 1957 in the city of Soomehsara. I was in Soomehsara, Fooman, Rasht, Evin, and Gohardasht prisons for 13 years. I was arrested in Tehran in early 1982, along with MEK supporter Mohsen. Mohsen was martyred under torture because he always defended the aspirations of the MEK. While I was under interrogation, I saw many brothers and sisters who were martyred under torture. I then had my interrogation continued in solitary confinement in Gohardasht. After spending a year and a half there, many prisoners, including Farhad Komayi, who was my superior and was very much loved by the people of Soomehsara, were executed. I was sentenced to 15 years. See the full text at \u201cEyewitness Accounts.\u201d https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/ https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IranNCR\/ https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy Subscribe to NCRI weekly newsletter t.ly\/MybJ\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Throughout the Noury trial and in the various conferences, it has been stated repeatedly that such \u201cfirm support\u201d was alone sufficient to secure a death sentence for any political prisoner. As a result, entire political wards were reportedly emptied by death commissions in various prisons. On Wednesday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/iran-1988-massacre-first-session-of-hamid-nourys-trial-in-albania-testimony-of-mohammad-zand\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Zand<\/a> testified that he was sent to solitary confinement for three months in the middle of the massacre and when released, asked an inmate from another ward how many of his fellow detainees were left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cAs far as I know, you\u2019re the last one,\u201d he was told. Zand reported that prior to his solitary confinement, there had been between 160 and 170 prisoners in his ward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In separate comments published on the NCRI\u2019s website, another survivor of the massacre named <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/04\/opinions\/ebrahim-raisi-1988-iran-political-prisoner-executions-royaei\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Mahmoud Royaei<\/a>, who has since published five books on the topic, emphasizing that the clean sweep of certain wards meant that there were no survivors to give accounts of the massacre from certain regions. This, he said, left open the possibility that the current estimate of 30,000 victims may be an undercount.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The MEK, NCRI, and other concerned parties have long advocated for a formal international investigation into the 1988 massacre, in order to establish its true scale, details of the accompanying abuses, and the location of victims\u2019 bodies. Many of those victims were promptly interred in secret mass graves, and in recent years the Iranian regime has undertaken extensive efforts to destroy and build upon those sites, as part of an effort to downplay the massacre and impede any future investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While these efforts have been a source of despair for many victims\u2019 advocates, the Noury trial has been embraced as a possible sign of newfound political will on the part of some Western powers that are in a position to spearhead an investigation. The particular circumstances of the trial suggest that \u201cuniversal jurisdiction,\u201d the principle behind Noury\u2019s prosecution, should also be used to arrest the regime\u2019s president Ebrahim Raisi if he travels to certain foreign countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 37th session in the trial of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury took place in Albania on Friday. 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