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November 15 - 38th trial session of Hamid Noury, an Iranian prison official charged with torturing inmates in Gohardasht prison (Karaj) during the 1980s and being directly involved in #Iran's #1988Massacre, continues in the district court of Durres, Albania.
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In Monday's session, Akbar Samadi, a former political prisoner who was arrested at the age of 14 for supporting the PMOI/MEK & sentenced to 10 years in prison, testifies on the atrocities in the regime's horrific prisons.
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Arrested in 1981, Samadi spent ten years in prison for supporting the MEK. He was transferred to Gohardasht prison in April 1986.

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Replica of Gohardasht prison made by MEK members & presented in the Durres courtroom.

On July 30, 1988, around the time the #1988Massacre of political prisoners started, Samadi was in the upper floor of Gohardasht’s Ward 2. The prison guards transferred Samadi and several other prisoners out of the ward and to what later became known as the “Death Corridor.”
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Prisoners waited until their turn before the Death Commission, a group tasked with deciding which prisoners would live or be executed. Members of the commission included current regime president Ebrahim Raisi and former justice minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi.
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The Death Commission was acting on the direct orders of regime supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini, who had issued a fatwa that stated anyone who continues to support the #Iran opposition MEK is an enemy of God and deserves to die.
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“All that we heard indicated changes and certain developments in the making. A number of the prisoners had seen Davoud Lashgari and a number of prison guards in the ward’s TV room. They had a wheelbarrow with ropes (nooses),” Samadi said.
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Rally of supporters of the Iranian Resistance and the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK coinciding with the Hamid Noury trial in Durres, Albania.

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In the Death Corridor, Samadi was placed next to a prisoner who had lost his mental stability due to the severe torture. “He wasn’t the only one to have such conditions,” Samadi said, adding he had seen at least four other prisoners who had lost their sanity under torture.
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The Death Hall was a large warehouse where prisoners were gathered to be executed during the #1988Massacre.

As one group of inmates were hanged, prison authorities forced others to watch until their turn to have the noose around their neck.

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While in the Death Corridor, Samadi heard from one of the prisoners that the executions had also started in Evin prison. “Tell the others that they are executing everyone,” he said.
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While in the Death Corridor, Samadi protested to Nasserian, asking why were they being kept in the corridor.

“Be thankful that you’re still breathing. I will personally throw the noose around your neck,” Nasserian told Samadi.

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In the Death Corridor, Hamid Noury led prisoners to the Death Commission & the Death Hall.

“I was there until late at night. Almost everyone was taken to the Death Hall,” Samadi said. "[Noury] read out 14 names... My name wasn’t on it.”

Samadi was taken to incommunicado.
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Lashgari took Samadi to the Death Commission. After being asked the same questions, he was sent back.
“I witnessed several times Hamid Noury reading out names of prisoners who were to be executed,” Samadi said. “He read names of prisoners & took them to the end of the corridor.”

At the time, #Iran's regime sought to force prisoners into televised interview against the MEK. “As [Nasserian] spoke, I realized this is one of the conditions for execution. My [indirect refusal] angered him. He and Hamid Abbasi wrote down my name.”

November 15 - Stockholm
Rally of supporters of the Iranian Resistance and the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK coinciding with the Hamid Noury trial in Durres, Albania.

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Samadi:
"They lined us up. I squeezed the shoulder of the prisoner who was in front of me as a sign of farewell... We moved and turned toward the Death Corridor that led to the Death Hall. We thought we were being taken for execution."

Samadi:
"I would clearly see Hamid Abbasi when he was busy reading out names & lining the prisoners up. I have no doubt it was him. On August 3 I saw Hamid Abbasi several times as he was reading out names and those prisoners were taken to the Death Hall."
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Samadi:
"I was just a few meters away from him. Hamid Abbasi was also busy in the Death Hall. His main task was to read out names and take prisoners to the Death Hall."
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Samadi:
“On August 6, I saw them bring Nasser Mansouri.”

Mansouri was paralyzed from the neck down.

“When they brought him to the Death Corridor, I was shocked... I thought they had brought him for administrative procedures, but they took him to the Death Hall.”

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In February, Samadi was transferred to Evin prison. There, he saw Moghiseh and Noury.
“Although I didn’t show myself to them, Noury saw me and said, ‘You slipped through our fingers. You should have been executed,’” Samadi said.
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Samadi explained that all prison personnel were forced to participate in the executions.

"[Noury] read out a list of prisoners & led them into the Death Hall... It is worth noting that on August 6, Nasserian told Davoud Lashgari, 'Call everyone. We want to start,'" Samadi said.

Samadi:
“The technical staff, clinic personnel, store managers, all of them went to the Death Hall. Even the members of the Death Commission went to the Death Hall and they all participated in the executions, including Nayyeri, the store manager, and the sentries.”
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