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Iranian Kurdistan: Thousands of Kurds
calls for Farzad Kamangar's release
21.7.2008
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July
12, 2008
Sanandaj (Sina), Iranian Kurdistan, —
More than 1,000 Kurds gathered outside the
prosecutor's office to call for Farzad Kamangar's
release form prison in the northwestern Kurdish city
of Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan (Eastern
Kurdistan). Kamangar, a teacher and political
activist, has been sentenced to death by the
mullahs' judiciary.
Citizens of various regions in the Iranian Kurdistan
had come to protest to the imprisonment of Farzad
Kamangar and other political prisoners.
From early morning hours,www.ekurd.net
the State Security
Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police –
cordoned the participant not allowing them to march
in the streets of Sanandaj.
The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)
arrested Kamangar in Tehran in July 2006 and held
him in various detention centers in Kurdistan,
Kermanshah, and Tehran. |
Farzad Kamangar, Kurdish teacher tortured and
sentenced to death |
During a period of detention in Ward 209 of the
notorious Evin Prison -- run by the MOIS -- in
August 2006,www.ekurd.net
officials tortured him to such an extent that they
had to transfer him to the prison clinic to receive
medical attention. He was severely tortured and was
subject to ill-treatment while in detention in the
cities of Sanandaj in Kurdistan province and
Kermanshah.
The mullahs' Supreme Court upheld an earlier death
sentence by a lower court for three Kurdish
political activists Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian
and Farhad Vakili on Friday. The three were first
arrested in April 2006 and tried in the lower court
in February 2007.
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ncr-iran org
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Îranę or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatę
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.
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members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
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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
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