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On Thursday, the 50th session of Hamid Noury\u2019s trial<\/a> in Sweden ended. Noury, an Iranian prison official, involved in crimes against humanity in the 1980s, was incarcerated in 2019 upon his arrival in Sweden.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He is accused of active participation in the 1988 massacre<\/a> of over 30,000 political prisoners. The prime victims of this massacre were the supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Noury\u2019s trial in Sweden resumed last week after the trial location was briefly transferred<\/a> to Albania per prosecutors\u2019 request to hear testimonies of the MEK members who were in prison in 1988 and are plaintiffs to Noury\u2019s case. It is worth noting that nearly 3,000 MEK members reside in Albania after their relocation from Iraq in 2016.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On Thursday\u2019s session, Reza\u00a0Shemirani, a MEK supporter, testified.\u00a0Shemirani\u00a0had spent ten years in prisons in the 1980s and witnessed the massacre of political prisoners in Evin prison in 1988. He has written a book about his memories in prison.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe massacre of political prisoners began on July 27, 1988, and continued for several months,\u201d\u00a0Shemirani\u00a0told the court on Thursday. \u201cAround 3,500 to 4,000 men and women were executed just in Evin prison. When the massacre ended, only around 120 male prisoners and 20 to 30 female prisoners were alive.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Shemirani\u00a0recalled that\u00a0Mosa\u00a0Vaezi, the regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence representative, had acknowledged they had massacred<\/a> prisoners by order of the regime\u2019s then-Supreme Leader, Ruhollah Khomeini.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn the middle of October, he told me that we committed [this massacre] by the orders of Imam [Khomeini]. We would arrest and immediately execute you if you attempt to join the MEK. Then, we will tell you, families, they are now with the MEK in Iraq, parading,\u201d\u00a0Shemirani\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAround a month before the massacres, in June 1988, I was in a \u2018closed-door\u2019 cell with ten to twelve inmates. Mojtaba\u00a0Halvaie\u00a0and Mohammad Elahi [prison officials] came to our cell and told us to pack our belongings. You are leaving.\u201d\u00a0Shemirani\u00a0said. When one of the prisoners asks where they are going,\u00a0Halvaie\u00a0says, \u201cYou are going to a good place with all the facilities you want.\u201d They were taken to the so-called \u201cResidential\u201d building. Prisoners were separated into groups of two to three. According to\u00a0Shemirani, they were in their cells until July 1988.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOn July 24, a guard came to our cell and gave us a form to fill. We had to write our names, our father\u2019s name, address, date of birth, and accusation. They encouraged us to write MEK supporters. When the guard left, we started talking and wrote MEK supporter. It was very odd that they insisted on writing MEK name as it was their red line,\u201d\u00a0Shemirani\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the court in Stockholm this morning, criminal Hamid Noury explicitly underscored that the name of People's Mojahedin Organization (#MEK<\/a>) in Iran is the red line and anyone who mentions the name of the Mojahedin will be prosecuted & arrested. #ProsecuteRaisiNow<\/a> #1988Massacre<\/a><\/p>\n — Shahin Gobadi (@gobadi) November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n