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Iraj Mesdaghi, who collected evidence against the Iranian Nouri, fled executions to Sweden in 1994. According to him and other activists, there are several perpetrators of the same crimes in Iran’s sitting regime.
Stockholm Yesterday, Thursday, an Iranian citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment in the district court Hamid Nouri.
The news agencies Reuters and AFP reported on the matter, among others. HS publishes the name of the accused due to the seriousness of the crimes and the scope of the case.
Nouri’s sentence was given for a serious violation of international law and murder. According to the district court, Nouri had, in agreement with others, carried out the 1988 mass executions in Iran.
In 1988, Nouri worked as a lawyer and assistant to the deputy director of the Gohardashti prison in Karaj. According to Reuters, he is the first to be brought to trial for the 1988 executions.
Stockholm District Court’s sketch of Hamid Nour, sentenced to life imprisonment, and lawyer Thomas Soderqvist.
July–September Thousands of political prisoners all over Iran died in the executions carried out in 1988. The prisoners belonged to or supported the Iranian People’s Mujahideen (MEK). Iran has not acknowledged the executions.
The MEK opposed and still opposes the current Islamic Republic of Iran. The organization has previously engaged in terrorism, but later announced that it had stopped the attacks. In the European Union, MEK was classified as a terrorist organization in 2002–2009.
Nowadays, the Iranian opposition works mainly in exile abroad. It also has a separate but related organization to the MEK, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
In the charges brought against Nouri in Sweden, a total of 110 victims of the executions were named. According to NCRI, it is estimated that 30,000 people died in the executions.
The human rights organization Amnesty has estimated the victims to be at least 5,000, but according to Reuters, has stated in its report that the number may be higher.
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For life the convicted Nouri has previously denied all the charges brought against him.
His lawyer Daniel Marcus commented to Reuters by email that Nouri’s defense will now go through the verdict in detail.
“We will appeal the verdict,” Marcus said, according to Reuters.
The Iranian regime has labeled the Stockholm District Court’s verdict as political and demands Nouri’s release.
“Iran is absolutely sure that Nouri’s sentence was politically motivated, and that it is not legally binding,” a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry Nasser Canaan said in a statement, according to Reuters.
Opposition activist and writer Iraj Mesdaghi (third from left) in February 2019 at the premises of Reporters Without Borders in Paris, France. There were other Iranian activists and RSF staff: Reza Moini, Taghi Rahmani, Monireh Baradaran, Shirin Ebadi and Christophe Deloire.
Nourin in Sweden, among other things, have pushed for justice to come Iraj Mesdaghi.
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Mesdaghi himself is a former political prisoner who survived the 1988 executions, who escaped from Iran to Sweden in 1994. In addition to Mesdaghi, there have been dozens of people involved.
“We are asking the international community why Nouri was convicted, but an active member of the same commission is allowed to continue as president and is welcomed to visit other countries,” Mesdaghi tells HS by phone.
Iranian opposition organizations use the term “death commission” for the body that ordered the executions.
of Mesdagh according to the president of Iran Ebrahim Raisi came up “hundreds of times” in Nouri’s trial.
“The sentence given now only concerned Gohardashti prison, but Raisi participated in events in other prisons,” says Mesdaghi.
At the time of the events of 1988, Raisi worked as an assistant prosecutor. He has denied his involvement in the committee.
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