{"id":252748,"date":"2021-12-09T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=252748"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:36:34","slug":"hamid-nourys-trial-out-of-157-of-us-transferred-to-evin-prison-only-seven-survived-former-iranian-prisoner-testified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/hamid-nourys-trial-out-of-157-of-us-transferred-to-evin-prison-only-seven-survived-former-iranian-prisoner-testified\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamid Noury\u2019s Trial: \u201cOut of 157 of Us Transferred to Evin Prison Only Seven Survived\u201d Former Iranian Prisoner Testified"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The martyrs’ museum in Ashraf 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tuesday marked the 48th session of Hamid Noury\u2019s trial, an Iranian prison official apprehended in 2019 for his crimes against political prisoners in the 1980s, mainly his involvement in the 1988 massacre.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mohammad Khodabandeh-Loui, a former political prisoner, testified against Noury and his role in torturing prisoners in Evin and Gohardasht prison. Khodabandeh-Loui has spent seven years in prison and is a witness to the 1988 massacre<\/a> of over 30,000 political prisoners<\/a>, who were mostly members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)<\/a> organization.<\/p>\n

Khodabandeh-Loui’s father, Ali Khodabandeh-Loui was a dentist who was executed in 1980 for supporting the MEK. Mohammad\u2019s brother, Mahmoud Khodabandeh-Loui was arrested in 1989 with his cousin Gholamreza Pour-Eghbali, and both were executed later.<\/p>\n

During Noury\u2019s trial, Khodabandeh-Loui testified that during the 1988 massacre, he was transferred to Evin prison along with 157 other prisoners. \u201cOnly seven of us survived,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In 1987, prisoners in Gohardasht went on hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment by prison authorities. All were taken to a room called Gas Chamber. The Gohardasht prison\u2019s Gas Chamber was a small room where prisoners were compactly kept and could hardly breathe.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring a severe crackdown on prisoners in 1987 in the gas chamber, I saw Hamid Noury,\u201d Khodabandeh-Loui said. He testified that Noury and his boss, Nasserian along with other guards started beating prisoners and taking them out of the cell one by one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was the only one standing at the end of the room. Naserian, [Mohammad Mogheyseh], Davoud Lashgari, and Abbasi [Noury] entered the room. Naserian shouted: \u2018your dead body would get out of this door today,\u2019 then they started beating me. My blindfold tore open, and I saw their faces. Abbasi [Noury] hit me hard in the face, and I felt an agonizing pain in the right side of my face,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As a result, Khodabandeh-Loui lost one of his eyes.<\/p>\n

The extent of the 1988 massacre in Iran<\/a><\/p>\n

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The extent of the 1988 massacre in Iran<\/div><\/div>
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