The Swedish court specialized in international crimes will continue its twenty-first session today, Tuesday, in Stockholm to judge Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prison official, for committing crimes against humanity and his role in carrying out mass executions that claimed the lives of 30,000 political prisoners, mostly from the opposition People's Mujahedin Organization, in 1988. Ahmad Ebrahimi, a political prisoner and one of the witnesses to the horrific torture and widespread executions, will testify before the court. He will speak about his observations of Noury's crimes at Gohardasht prison in Karaj, located west of Tehran.
Ebrahimi was arrested in December 1980 for supporting the People’s Mujahedin Organization, and he was directly transferred to the notorious Ward 209 in Evin Prison, where he was subjected to vicious interrogation and torture. He spent ten years in Evin, Qazal Hesar, Gohardasht, and a prison in Qom city. During his imprisonment, he witnessed horrific torture and large-scale executions of members of the People’s Mujahedin in Evin Prison. In the first trial, he was sentenced to death, but this was reduced in the subsequent trial. In 1988, during the implementation of Khomeini's decree regarding the extermination of members and supporters of the People’s Mujahedin, he entered the "death corridor" and stood before the death squad.
In parallel with the trial, a number of Iranian opposition activists will hold a massive demonstration in front of the Swedish court in Stockholm, coinciding with the session. It is noted that the court has charged Noury, who was arrested under universal jurisdiction, with "war crimes," "mass murder," and "violations of international law," according to the indictment presented by the prosecutor in the initial sessions that began last week. The court based its charges on numerous documents, dozens of witnesses, corroborations from the "Iran Tribunal," as well as reports from Amnesty International and other international human rights organizations. The opposition accuses the Iranian regime of carrying out mass executions in 1988, amounting to around 4,000, in addition to torture and beatings, alongside the existence of hidden mass graves.
