New Court Session for Hamid Nouri; Partial Recovery of Data Deleted from His Mobile Phone
The eighty-sixth court session for Hamid Nouri, a former judicial official during the summer 1988 executions, was held on Thursday, the first of Ordibehesht, with an extraordinary interrogation session of the defendant, with the majority of this session focused on phone numbers deleted from the defendant’s mobile phone.
This interrogation session was held at the request of the case prosecutors due to the presentation of audio and visual documents known as “Protocol 16” to the court. These documents had been deleted from Hamid Nouri’s mobile phone the night before his flight, but Swedish experts have succeeded in recovering some of these documents.
Among the phone numbers deleted from the defendant’s phone, several numbers belonging to bodyguards of Mohammad Moghisseh, known as “Nassarians,” were found. In explaining this matter, the defendant said: “Moghisseh was my boss. They assigned a bodyguard to him so they wouldn’t assassinate him. I don’t have Moghisseh’s number or my dear boss Nassarians’ number. He didn’t give it to me… because I gave his phone number to everyone. You understand, I give his phone to everyone. He changed both of his mobile lines and didn’t give them to me anymore. When he came with his bodyguards, I would take his bodyguards’ phone numbers. I was smarter than him.”
The name of Mohammad Moghisseh has been mentioned repeatedly in Nouri’s court as one of the most important perpetrators of torture and executions of political prisoners in the summer of 1367 (1988), heard from the mouths of witnesses and plaintiffs. Hamid Nouri speaks of him with great respect.
Regarding the list of phone numbers of bodyguards of Hossein Ali Niri, the religious judge at the time of the summer 1988 executions, Hamid Nouri provided similar explanations and said: “There was a possibility of his assassination, I would take his bodyguards’ phone numbers. Because he wouldn’t give me his own phone number.”
Hamid Nouri is accused of participating in mass executions of political prisoners at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, an accusation which he denies. He arrived on November 18, 2019, on a direct flight from Iran to Stockholm Airport and was immediately arrested.
Hamid Nouri, who according to the plaintiffs’ account was the deputy judicial official of Gohardasht Prison during the executions, had claimed in previous court sessions that he had been in Evin Prison from 1361 to 1372 (1982 to 1993) and described reports about the summer executions of 1367 (1988) as “entirely imaginary, illusory, and fabricated stories, false and undocumented.”
Hamid Nouri, who according to the plaintiffs’ account was the deputy judicial official of Gohardasht Prison during the summer executions of 1367 (1988), also said in his eighty-sixth court session in Sweden that “we only granted furloughs in prison to the repentant; those who had abandoned their position and repented.”
He explained: “They cooperated with us and we also granted them furloughs.”
The next court session is scheduled to be held on the fifth of Ordibehesht in Stockholm.
Source: Radio Farda
