33 years ago, I was in the same room with Iran's new president when he voted to execute political prisoners
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Mahmoud Royaei, who was a political prisoner in Iran, writes about the abuse he faced and the moment he met Ebrahim Raisi, then deputy prosecutor of Tehran and a key member of what was known as the "Death Commission."
It was exactly 33 years ago, on August 3, 1988, when I found myself in the same room with Ebrahim Raisi. At the time, he was a deputy prosecutor of Tehran and a key member of what was known as the "Death Commission" in Gohardasht Prison located in Karaj -- northeast Iran. I was a political prisoner in the middle of serving my 10-year sentence when I first met Raisi, like thousands of other friends and fellow sympathizers of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), a political opposition group. I was there to hear Raisi decide my fate.More Related News