{"id":30747,"date":"2021-12-17T08:12:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=30747"},"modified":"2021-12-17T08:12:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:12:53","slug":"former-iranian-political-prisoner-gives-detailed-testimony-at-50th-session-of-hamid-nourys-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/1988-massacre\/2021\/12\/former-iranian-political-prisoner-gives-detailed-testimony-at-50th-session-of-hamid-nourys-trial\/30747\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iranian Political Prisoner Gives Detailed Testimony at 50th Session of Hamid Noury\u2019s Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mohsen Zadshir, a former political prisoner, served 10 years in Iranian prisoners for supporting the MEK<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The 50th<\/sup> session of the trial of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury<\/a> took place on Friday, December 10, at a court in Sweden. Noury was arrested in 2019 on a trip to the Scandinavian country and is being tried under the principle of universal jurisdiction for his active role in the Iranian regime\u2019s crimes against humanity in the 1980s, most notably the massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners in 1988<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The majority of victims were members and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI) said<\/a>, \u201cNoury\u2019s trial began in August 2021 in Sweden, two years after he was incarcerated arriving in Sweden. A number of sessions of the trial were transferred to Albania in November per prosecutors\u2019 demand to hear the testimonies of seven MEK members who are among thousands of MEK <\/a>members in Albania since their relocation from Iraq in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohsen Zadshir, a former political prisoner, served 10 years in Iranian prisoners for supporting the MEK. He testified in Noury\u2019s trial, giving detailed accounts of what he witnessed when he was transferred to Gohardasht prison, where Noury was working at the time of the 1988 massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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