{"id":255867,"date":"2022-02-17T04:28:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=255867"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:02:03","slug":"iran-the-mek-woman-chanted-anti-regime-slogans-once-seeing-the-noose-ex-prisoner-testifies-at-nourys-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-the-mek-woman-chanted-anti-regime-slogans-once-seeing-the-noose-ex-prisoner-testifies-at-nourys-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: \u201cThe MEK Woman Chanted Anti-regime Slogans Once Seeing the Noose\u201d Ex-prisoner Testifies at Noury\u2019s Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI heard the guards speaking of a woman who chanted anti-regime slogans once she saw the noose,\u201d Amir Houshang Atyabi told the prosecutor at Hamid Noury\u2019s trial on Friday, February 11.<\/p>\n

Friday marked the 66th<\/sup> session of Hamid Noury\u2019s trial<\/a>. Noury, an Iranian prison official, was apprehended in 2019 upon landing in Sweden for his role in the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners, mainly members, and supporters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) organization. During this genocide, Noury worked as deputy prosecutor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, where thousands of political prisoners were sent to the gallows by the \u201cDeath Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atyabi, a supporter of the Tudeh (Communist) Party of Iran, was arrested in 1983 once the regime banned the group from political activities. He had previously testified during Noury\u2019s 61st<\/sup> session on January 24. He gave harrowing accounts of large trucks taking bodies of executed prisoners out for days. During Friday\u2019s session, Mr. Atyabi answered Noury\u2019s lawyer and the prosecutor\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou told us that the truck came once or twice a week,\u201d asked the defendant\u2019s lawyer. \u201cNo, they came once or twice a day,\u201d Atyabi responded.<\/p>\n

On January 24, Atyabi had told the court: \u201cFor 12 consecutive nights, I saw a refrigerator truck and two guards for five nights. Imagine the noise of dropping something in a metal container. I heard the sound until the truck was filled with layers of bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat day, I saw the most horrible scene in my life that still haunts me to this day. Through the window, I saw the two guards going on the top of the truck. I could see them moving something to free up some space. Suddenly, I realized they were moving bodies. They were holding to limbs of dead bodies, moving them around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the earlier session, Atyabi had also told the court about hearing the kangaroo trials by Death Commission in Gohardasht. The \u201cDeath Commissions\u201d<\/a> were formed following a fatwa by the Iranian regime\u2019s supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1988, sentencing to death all those who refused to bow to the ruling theocracy and disavow the MEK. Tehran\u2019s Death Commission in Gohardasht only asked MEK prisoners whether they still harbor support for the group. A \u2018yes\u2019 was sufficient to seal the fate of the prisoner.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, we went to this cell to hear the [trials]. It was a matter of life and death for us too. We knew they would come for us. The cell was full of prisoners, and the guards perhaps heard the noises,\u201d Atyabi said.<\/p>\n

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The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: Eyewitness Accounts, Asghar Mehdizadeh<\/div><\/div>
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