Ms. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), welcomed the life sentence of Hamid Noury, one of the perpetrators involved in genocide and crimes against humanity in 1988, by the Swedish judiciary and called a first step on the road to full justice. She added that comprehensive justice will, of course, be achieved when the main perpetrators of the crime, especially Ali Khamenei and Ebrahim Raisi, and other perpetrators, are tried in the courts of a free Iran or in international courts.
In 92 hearings, some of the hearings took place in the Durrës court in Albania, the Swedish court dealt with a series of events in only one prison (Gohardasht) out of more than 100 prisons where the massacre took place. Files on the Evin massacre and the great crime that took place in more than 100 cities, and on the heroic actions of women associated with the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in the 1988 massacre and the executioners' crimes against those must be opened.
Ms. Rajavi added that the extensive legal, political and informational campaign of the Iranian Resistance in the last 33 months and the decision handed down by the court defeated the conspiracy of the Ministry of Intelligence and its agents to divert the Justice Movement against the MEK. The strong evidence and convincing documents of witnesses and prosecutors, especially in Ashraf 3 - Albania, played a decisive role in proving Noury's guilt and prevented him from escaping justice. In fact, the trial would have turned out differently if some of the court sessions had not been held in Albania.
Ms. Rajavi emphasized that the prosecution of Khamenei and Raisi is now more necessary than ever. In the face of regime hostage-taking and blackmail, and to avoid the very trap the Belgian government fell into, the Swedish government must immediately order the prosecution of Rais, as the executioner of 1988, for genocide and crimes against humanity. More than 1,000 political prisoners tortured by the Khomeini regime, more than 900 of whom are in Albania, are ready to file complaints.