{"id":252587,"date":"2021-12-06T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T19:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=252587"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:26:03","slug":"on-trial-hamid-noury-portrays-iran-regimes-fear-of-mojahedin-e-khalq-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-documents-statements\/on-trial-hamid-noury-portrays-iran-regimes-fear-of-mojahedin-e-khalq-mek\/","title":{"rendered":"On Trial, Hamid Noury Portrays Iran Regime\u2019s Fear of Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sweden-01-1988-massacre-\"<\/p>\n

Since August, Hamid Noury a former Iranian prison official<\/a> has been on trial in Sweden for his participation in mass executions carried out in the summer of 1988<\/a>. During that time, the court heard from more than 20 witnesses who observed him leading prisoners to the \u201cdeath commission\u201d and to the gallows at Gohardasht Prison during the period in question. During four sessions over the past two weeks, Noury spoke in his own defense and denied the undeniable evidence but confirmed key aspects of the Iranian regime\u2019s approach to jurisprudence and the brutal punishment of dissidents.<\/p>\n

Noury\u2019s denials carry no weight, being clearly desperate in their overreach and contrary not only to the statements from other witnesses at the trial, but also to statements from hundreds of other survivors and their families, as well as various other regime officials who took part in the 1988 massacre. The other eyewitnesses offered their informal testimony in gatherings outside the Stockholm court, as well as outside a court in Durres, Albania, to which the proceedings were temporarily relocated at the suggestion of prosecutors.<\/p>\n

That change of venue was motivated by the fact that over 3,000 members of Iran\u2019s main opposition group, the People\u2019s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) reside in Ashraf 3 in Albania, following their relocations from Iraq. Seven of these residents offered testimony before the Durres district court, while Ashraf 3, played host to a conference that featured detailed recollections from a dozen others.<\/p>\n

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Iranian political prisoner describes mass executions in Gohardasht prison in 1988<\/div><\/div>
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