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November 16 - 39th 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 Tuesday's session, Mahmoud Royaei, a former political prisoner who spent ten years in prison for supporting the MEK, testifies on the atrocities in the regime's horrific prisons.
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Royaei, arrested in 1981 at the age of 18, has described the crimes #Iran’s regime committed against political prisoners in a series of five books. His writing also includes the role Hamid Noury played in the #1988Massacre as one of the senior prison guards in Gohardasht prison.

Royaei's testimony indicates #Iran's #1988Massacre was years in the making.
“In March 1988, a group of prisoners were brought from Kermanshah to Gohardasht... under a plan to classify prisoners, employed by Davoud Lashgari, Nasserian [Mohammad Moghiseh] & Hamid [Noury]," he said.

“These series of events reminded us of the dark memories of 1981. Every night, hundreds of prisoners were executed while the authorities shouted ‘Death to the Monafegh’ [the term the regime uses to refer to the MEK,” Royaei said.
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“It became clear to us that the first executions were from the prisoners of Karaj because [current regime president Ebrahim] Raisi was the prosecutor of Karaj and personally knew them,” Royaei said.
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"33 years ago, I was in the same room with Iran's new president when he voted to execute political prisoners"

By: Mahmoud Royaei

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cnn.com/2021/08/04/opi…

Raisi was a member of the “Death Commission” that decided the fate of each political prisoner. Those who did not disavow their support for the MEK would be sent to the gallows.
The Death Commission was acting on direct orders from regime supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini.

On August 2, 1988, Royaei was summoned along with several other prisoners. The prisoners were taken to a corridor that became known as the “Death Corridor,” where prisoners waited for their turn to meet the Death Commission.
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At the end of the Death Corridor was the “Death Hall,” the warehouse where prisoners were hanged in groups. As one group of inmates were hanged, the prison authorities forced the others to watch until it became their turn to have the noose thrown around their neck.
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"After about half an hour, I recognized the voice of Hamid Abbasi [Noury] calling names. I pushed up my blindfold a bit and saw Hamid Abbasi standing in the middle of the hallway and reading names,” Royaei said.
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“Around 5 or 6 pm, Nasserian took me to the Death Commission,” Royaei said. “There was [Hossein Ali] Nayyeri; intel ministry representative [Mostafa] Pourmohammadi, [Morteza] Eshraghi, and [Ebrahim] Raisi whom I thought to be a prison guard," he added.
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In the Death Corridor, Royaei heard Noury calling 10-15 names, those being taken for execution.
“I was sitting less than a meter from [Noury]. I could see a few meters from under the blindfold. The guards were wearing military attire. But Nasserian & [Noury] wore plain clothes.”

November 16 - 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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Royaei:
I came to Gohardasht prison in 1986 & I would see Hamid Abbasi & Nasserian from then on. I’ve remembered his face ever since… In total I had seen Hamid Abbasi about five or six times from 1986 to the days of the Death Corridor.
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