Hamid Nouri's trial resumed; reading of Montazeri and Khomeini's correspondence about executions

In the fourth session of the trial of Hamid Nouri, former assistant prosecutor of Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, in Stockholm, the continuation of his indictment was read, which referred to the first and second waves of executions in the 1960s based on prisoners' documents and memories.

According to reports on social media by those present at the court session, the prosecutor placed great emphasis on the correspondence between Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ruhollah Khomeini's former deputy, and him in this regard.

In this meeting, all of Mr. Montazeri's correspondence with Mr. Khomeini was read, and the prosecutor said that unlike the first wave, in which Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa led to the widespread killing of members of the People's Mojahedin, there was no such fatwa in the second wave, which led to the widespread execution of leftist forces.

Ladan Bazargan, whose brother Bijan Bazargan was executed in 2018, wrote on Twitter that the prosecutor also read the names of a number of those executed in the session, based on the memoirs of former political prisoners such as Mehdi Aslani.

Part of the indictment that the prosecutor read in this session, based on evidence, was dedicated to the five daily floggings of leftist political prisoners who refused to pray in prison, their inquisition, and their torture until they agreed to pray.

In this meeting, the prosecution particularly emphasized Hamid Nouri's role in selecting political prisoners to appear before the death squad, including by providing them with a question and answer form.

Reports indicate that members of the People's Mojahedin Organization were present in front of the court, as in the previous three sessions, and their slogans were heard inside the session.

This is the second week of the trial of Hamid Nouri, a former deputy prosecutor of the Islamic Republic's judiciary and accused of participating in the 1967 executions in Iran.

On November 9, 2019, he arrived at Stockholm Airport on a direct flight from Iran and was immediately arrested following the efforts of Iraj Mesdaghi, a civil activist and former political prisoner.

Iraj Mesdaghi, a political activist and one of the plaintiffs in this case, explained in an interview with the media how the former official of the Islamic Republic's judiciary was "trapped" and said that, in addition to family matters, he had traveled to Sweden "for a luxury vacation trip around Europe and to meet with the Mahroyans."

Swedish television channels also mention in their reports that Hamid Nouri was brought to Sweden following a "planned entrapment."

It is also reported that all of these steps and the dragging of Hamid Nouri to Sweden were filmed by Nima Sarvestani, an Iranian-born documentary filmmaker living in Sweden, and will soon be shown in a documentary film titled The Executioner.

Source: Radio Farda