{"id":251366,"date":"2021-11-25T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=251366"},"modified":"2023-02-01T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T11:01:31","slug":"hamid-noury-trial-a-sadistic-torturer-or-a-caring-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/hamid-noury-trial-a-sadistic-torturer-or-a-caring-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Hamid Noury Trial: A Sadistic Torturer or a \u201cCaring\u201d Guard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday, a court in Sweden held the first hearing of Hamid Noury, an Iranian former prison official who has participated in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisons. In his highly contradicted remarks on Tuesday, Noury showed his true color as a henchman and a criminal.<\/p>\n

Noury was arrested in 2019 in Sweden<\/a>. His trial began in 2021. Noury\u2019s trial has featured harrowing testimonies by the survivors of the 1988 massacre. During the 1988 massacre, over 30,000 political prisoners, mostly members, and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization<\/a> of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) were executed.<\/p>\n

Noury was a prison official at the time of the massacre in Gohardahst prison. He was known among prisoners as Hamid Abbasi. Noury had initially claimed he had been mistaken for someone else. But on Tuesday\u2019s hearing, he acknowledged his identity.<\/p>\n

Noury\u2019s remarks consisted of three parts: praising known criminals in the regime, repeating the same baseless allegations against the MEK, and denying the 1988 massacre.<\/p>\n

He began his remarks by praising criminals such as Ruhollah Khomeini, Ebrahim Raisi (aka hanging judge), Assadollah Lajevardi<\/a> (aka butcher of Evin), and Qassem Soleimani, who is notorious for his crimes in the region.<\/p>\n

He described the regime\u2019s current president Raisi, as \u201cthe popular president of the people of Iran.\u201d Raisi played a key role in the 1988 massacre as a member of Tehran\u2019s \u201cDeath Commission,\u201d a committee that sentenced prisoners to death. Noury\u2019s \u201cpopular president\u201d was selected in June by the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Khamenei, while the majority of Iranians boycotted the regime\u2019s sham election.<\/p>\n

Noury then praised Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, the eliminated commander of the Revolutionary Guards\u2019 Quds Force, who was notorious for his crimes in the Middle East, mainly in Syria and Iraq. \u201cWhen [Soleimani] was insulted,\u201d Noury said, referring to one of the witnesses calling Soleimani a criminal, \u201cI felt that the world would break on my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noury then called Lajevardi the \u201cbeloved prosecutor\u201d of Tehran. Lajevardi had personally tortured, raped, and killed many prisoners in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

After Noury finished praising criminals, he began attacking the MEK, rehashing the Iranian regime\u2019s allegations against its main democratic opposition group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an organization that is so-called People\u2019s Mojahedin, but no one in Iran knows them by this name. All Iranians call them Monafeghin,\u201d Noury said, using the term that only the regime uses for the MEK. \u201cIf I mistakenly call them Mojahedin in my remarks, I apologize to the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monfeghin is a derogatory term only used by the regime.<\/p>\n

While Noury tried to downplay his role in the 1988 massacre and deny his presence in Gohardasht prison at the time, he admitted to his role in the regime\u2019s crimes in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Noury testified that he had participated in oppressing the Kurdish<\/a> ethnic minority in 1979. He acknowledged that he was allowed to work in prison upon his own \u201crequest\u201d. He held different positions in various prisons near Tehran. He narcissistically praised himself as a \u201ccaring\u201d guard who \u201cloved prisoners\u201d and \u201cfulfilled their demands.\u201d Yet, as witnesses testified during his trial, Noury was a sadistic torturer who took joy in harassing prisoners.<\/p>\n

Mojtaba Akhgar<\/a>, a former political prisoner, is one of the prisoners Noury personally tortured. According to Akhgar, Noury and his boss Mohammad Moghiseh, also known as Nasserian, tortured him weeks after the 1988 massacre.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day, Naserian came and called some names, including Javad Taqavi and me. He told us to go out, and we did. We were blindfolded in the prison yard. He told us that the Sharia judge had sentenced you to lashes. I was supposed to receive 160 lashes and Javad 100. They tied us to a metal bed and flogged us. I was severely injured and hardly got up from the bed,\u201d Akhgar said.<\/p>\n

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