May 4th 2022 - Stockholm District Court held the final hearing session of the trial of Hamid Noury, an Iranian regime official involved in the torture and murder of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988.
In 1988, the regime carried out a complete purge of prisons under the orders of mullahs’ regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, executing more than 30,000 prisons in the span of a few months. Most of the victims were members and supporters of the PMOI/MEK.
At the time, Noury was assistant deputy prosecutor of Gohardasht prison, west of Tehran. He actively participated in the execution of political prisoners at the facility. During the 93 court hearings, many witnesses testified on how Noury and other regime authorities tortured prisoners and took them to a hall where they were hanged in groups.
Nouri had made multiple trips to Sweden, prior to his arrest in 2018, to visit family. Upon his last journey, a group of witnesses and former political prisoners during this massacre, filed a complaint to Swedish police who then opened this case and made the arrest. Iranian communities staged protests outside the courthouse as well as the Swedish parliament, calling on the authorities to stand firm on this historic case and ensure that justice will be served.
Swedish prosecutors have strongly recommended a life sentence for Nouri and the judge has set the date of the verdict to be July 14th of this year.
Kenneth Lewis, the lawyer of plaintiffs from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in the Hamid Noury case, has stated that he feels confident that Nouri will be given a long sentence based on the evidence presented to the court as well as the expert opinions given.
