The Fake Courts of MEK to Deviate the Principle of Human Rights

The dark history of the terrorist group of the MEK began long before their fake courts, such as the court of Iranian diplomat Asadullah Asadi and Hamid Nouri. This group did so many terrorist attacks on their own country, Iran. In the 1980s, they killed 12 thousand of innocent people, including many women and children. This terrorist group also killed 4000 Iraqi Kurds in 1991, with the direct order of the Iraqi dictator Saddam. This was while the MEK was trained by Saddam Hussein's Estekhbarat (secret service of Iraq) and later by Israel's MOSSAD in intelligence gathering and secret operations, and with this training, this group, apart from the aforementioned terrorist acts, conducted several false flag operations around the world to show that Iran is responsible for them, such as the bombing in 1994 at the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which despite extensive research, the evidence shows the involvement of four senior Mojahedin intelligence officers in this operation, but the MEK spread it with the extensive false propaganda that Iran was responsible. Similarly, in recent riots in Iran, the group MEK killed several rioters and blame these deaths on Iran's army, however with the arrest of the killers, it became clear that they had received direct orders from the MEK to escalate the situation in Iran.

In the discussion of fake courts made by this group, we also witnessed many cases, such as the case of Asadullah Asadi, an Iranian diplomat, who was arrested in Germany on a false charge of bombing the gathering of MEK in France, while no evidence of a crime was found in his car or home. With these regards, he was sent to Belgium for trial, where he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and now Hamid Nouri, who is on trial for the executions of the terrorist members of MEK in 1988, while he was not involved in issuing the verdicts of the MEK members at that time. So basically, we are always faced with western dual policies when dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

As we have all heard, many double standard policies are always adopted and implemented in the world, and in many cases, these policies are simply ignored, and the international communities and the media try to close their eyes when they face them. In a general view, perhaps the essence of the matter can be expressed according to this clichéd phrase in such a way that “the goal justifies the means”, that is, in some cases, the behavior of Western countries in front of two identical events that happen in two different places, they have completely different behaviors and sometimes these behaviors are contradictory, one of these double standard policies is the fake courts.

Hamid Nouri's case is currently in the sixth session of the Court of Appeal, while Mr. Nouri, who does not enjoy the most basic rights of a prisoner and is not allowed to contact his family, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the initial sentence. He asked for permission to speak and defend himself many times in court, but he faced a negative order from the court judge, and in the end, this unjust sentence was issued to him. In the Court of Appeal, the sixth session of which was held on Monday, January 23, 2023, Swedish lawyer Hamid Nouri presented his defenses in the Court of Appeal session.

Defense of Hamid Nouri’s lawyer in the sixth session of the Court of Appeal

In the sixth session of the Court of Appeal, Thomas Bodström, the Swedish lawyer of Nouri, expressed concern about Mr. Nouri's life sentence and said that this sentence will have a bad effect on the relations between the two countries, Iran and Sweden.

Hamid Nouri's lawyer Thomas Bodstrom said: "In similar cases such as the killings in Rwanda, it was possible to investigate the crime scene inside the country, and the governing bodies there had extensive cooperation, but in this case, it is not possible to investigate the evidence proving the crime." And for this reason, it seems strange to issue a verdict without having solid and definitive evidence.

Now Hamid Nouri's lawyer is trying to show that the MEK betrayed their country in the Forough Javidan operation, which in that operation they faced a heavy counterattack by the Iranian armed forces in the Mersad operation, and this operation was both a betrayal in war conditions and an operation It is considered as an armed terrorist attack against its own country, and according to the international laws of that time, treason against the country in war conditions is punishable by death, in which case this terrorist group will be the one, who should be held accountable for terrorist crimes and treasons in the international court of Sweden.

The Swedish prosecutors demanded the arrest and trial of Hamid Nouri under the pressure of the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and appeal to the legal principle of "Universal Jurisdiction". The principle of "universal jurisdiction" allows major crimes, such as war crimes and crimes against humanity, to be investigated in the courts of other countries, regardless of the place where the crime was committed and the nationality of the accused or the victims.

Now let's take a look at the records of Mr. Nouri’s Swedish lawyer. Thomas Bodström who along with another lawyer named Hannah Larson, entered the appeal court case as Hamid Nouri's new lawyers on September 13, 2022, in addition to having 32 years of legal experience, he was the Minister of Justice of Sweden from 2000 to 2006 and He has already participated in two cases of the principle of universal jurisdiction.

Thomas Bodström has already participated in two cases of the principle of universal jurisdiction. In the case of Rwandan convict Clover Brinkindi (2016-2017), Bodstrom was the counsel for four of the plaintiffs. In the case of Rwandan convict Theodore Tabaro (2018-2019), Bodstrom was the defense lawyer of Tabaro in all three stages of the trial and appeals court, and the Supreme Court and had a tremendous impact on the case process.