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Iran: Farzad Kamangar's story, the Kurdish Teacher
Tortured, Sentenced to Death
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Iran: Farzad Kamangar's story, the Kurdish
Teacher Tortured, Sentenced to Death
2.3.2008
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March 2, 2008
Iranian Kurdistan, -- Farzad Kamangar is
borned in 1975. He was a teacher during 12 years in
Kamiaran, a village of Eastern Kurdistan (Northwestern
Iran). He is married and has children. He belonged
to the Teachers Union of Kurdistan and to other
activist associations. He wrote for the review Royan,
the review of Education department of Kamiyaran and
for newspapers of local Human Rights associations.
He has been arrested on August 19th 2006, by the
secret services of Sine. During 4 months after his
arrest, his family had no news and authorities
denied to be responsible of his disappearance.
Farzad Kamangar had been in fact transfered in the
9th Prison of Evin in Tehran, a non-official center
of detention of the VEVAK, the Iranian services. |
Farzad Kamangar, Kurdish teacher tortured and
sentenced to death |
In a letter he secretly
send out of his prison, he told how he was isolated
and tortured, beaten at his first interrogatory just
because he is Kurd. He should stayed also on a
chair, bound during 24 hours,www.ekurd.net
without food nor
possibility to go to the lavatory. Then he was
imprisoned in a small cell, without fresh air. He
could not get in touch with his family or his
lawyer. He faced also psychological pressures, for
example threatening against his relatives. Once, he
attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself in
stairs, but failed. His health was so bad that he
had to be cured in a prison hospital. His lawyer
tells that when he saw Farzand in their first
meeting, his body was shaken, his hands were
seriously burnt by boiled water. Beside, he suffers
of kidney infection, and tracks of blood in his
urine. ?
Between 2006 and 2007, he was several times
transfered in Kermanshah or Sine to be interrogated
and severely tortured. In Kermanshah, his cell,
where he was detained in February and March 2007
measured 1m x 1m x 0.6m. He was also sexually abused
in Evin, a common practice to psychologically break
prisoner's mind.
His mother and his brother were allowed to see him
only seven months after his arrest. When they meet
him, Iranian agents stayed all the tim with them and
forbid they speak in Kurdish. Farzad Kamangar, at
this time, did not know what were the charges
against him.
Farzad made several hunger strikes, with other
prisoners, to protest against their conditions of
detention. The last month, he was in the prison of
Gohardacht,www.ekurd.net
when prisoners revolted.
After a raid of safety services, he has been taken
and led in a isolated place, with Farhad Vakili and
Ali Heydaran.
On February 25th, the 130 Branch of the
Revolutionary Court condemned Farzad Kamangar to the
capital punishment, for endangering national
security. He was charged also to belong to PJAK,
though he pled non-guilty.
Human Rights Watch denounces the trial, the sentence
and the tortures.
Roj Bash ! | northerniraq.info/blog/
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
More about Iranian Kurdistan
KDPI
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
More about KDPI- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
PJAK
The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
More about PEJAK- Party for a
Free Life in Kurdistan
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