“Death Hall” — Horrifying eyewitness account of Iran’s 1988 massacre

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Iran, September 14, 2021—Through the past three decades the small number of survivors of Iran’s 1988 massacre have detailed their accounts in various articles, interviews and books. According to his eyewitness reports, Mr. Mehdizadeh is the only individual to have actually seen the room described “Death Hall” in Gohardasht prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) and survived. Inmates were executed in groups of 12 in the “Death Hall,” making Gohardasht, alongside the capital’s Evin Prison, one of the facilities where the regime executed several hundred if not thousands of political prisoners during the 1988 massacre.

Mr. Mehdizadeh describes the “Death Hall” as a large room with a stage and 12 ropes (nooses) hanging from the ceiling.

“Next to my solitary cell, I saw the lights of few other cells were on. I called the first one through the window. He introduced himself. He was Hadi Mohammadnejad. I also told him my name. He said: “Asghar, they took me to the death hall. They raise the subject of interviews and intelligence cooperation; anyone who refuses would be executed the next day.”

In the Death Hall twelve inmates would be placed upon chairs on the stage and executed simultaneously by members of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

The next morning, two guards came for me and told me to get dressed. When I approached the death hall, I saw that there was a crowd of prisoners. At one point, I asked a prisoner what was going on. He said, “Is it the first time you have come here?” I said yes. He replied, “Wait, they will first take you to show you the scene of the executions.”

“… the guard who had brought me called me and took me into the death hall. I took a loom from underneath my blindfold and saw many corpses in front of a stage in the hall. I was kept some distance away from the stage. I eventually uncovered my blindfold and fainted from what I saw.”

These accounts shed light on the sheer number of executions carried out by the regime in just one prison, and the rate that authorities deemed necessary to execute 12 prisoners simultaneously to render their own version of the “final solution” aiming to literally eradicate the PMOI/MEK.

Mr. Mehdizadeh recalls his thoughts after regaining his consciousness, describing the regime’s atrocities in further detail.

“I said to myself, God, what is going on here? I saw 12 MEK supporters standing on a chair each with a rope around their necks. I witnessed that next to them were other bodies of the martyrs whose feet were grabbed by the guards and dragged out of the hall.”
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