In 1988, Iran’s supreme leader at the time, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued an execution order for all prisoners in the country who remained loyal to the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). As a result, thousands of prisoners were executed in the Gohardasht prison between July 30 and August 16 in 1988, the Swedish prosecutors said. Noury had claimed that the MEK had "wrongly accused him of participating in a fabricated course of events for political gains". But the Stockholm judge ruled against him and handed down a rare life sentence. "Nothing substantial has emerged which gives the court reason to question the investigation’s reliability and robustness,” Judge Tomas Zander.
