In court, Hamid Nouri, his lawyer, protested that Khomeini's fatwa on the 67 executions was not valid.

According to an Iran International correspondent, during the court hearing, Hamid Nouri's lawyer protested that Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa on the 67 executions was not valid. In response, the prosecutor in the case said that they had evidence that this was Khomeini's fatwa, and that this fatwa was also mentioned in the memoirs of Hossein Ali Montazeri.