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Some of you will remember the jailed Iranian trade unionist Farzad Kamangar (pictured).
He was the subject of a LabourStart campaign more than a year ago.
Kamangar was accused by the regime of "endangering national security" and "enmity against God".
He was convicted in a sham trial that lasted less than five minutes, sent to prison and tortured.
Teachers' unions around the world campaigned for his release, backed by the labour movement and human rights groups like Amnesty International.
Last weekend, the Iranian regime executed Farzad together with several other prisoners.
He was hanged secretly, without his family being informed, in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
As the one-year anniversary of Iran's fraudulent Presidential elections approaches, we have reason to fear that the regime will become even more brutal in its crackdown.
Other trade unionists languishing in Iranian jails now fear for their lives too.
We must act now to send a loud and clear message to Tehran -- no more executions!
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Some of you will remember the jailed Iranian trade unionist Farzad Kamangar
He was the subject of a LabourStart campaign more than a year ago.
Kamangar was accused by the regime of "endangering national security" and "enmity against God".
He was convicted in a sham trial that lasted less than five minutes, sent to prison and tortured.
Teachers' unions around the world campaigned for his release, backed by the labour movement and human rights groups like Amnesty International.
Last weekend, the Iranian regime executed Farzad together with several other prisoners.
He was hanged secretly, without his family being informed, in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
As the one-year anniversary of Iran's fraudulent Presidential elections approaches, we have reason to fear that the regime will become even more brutal in its crackdown.
Other trade unionists languishing in Iranian jails now fear for their lives too.
We must act now to send a loud and clear message to Tehran -- no more executions!
Please take a minute and send off your message.
And afterwards, please make sure to spread the word in your union.
We must act quickly to save the lives of our fellow trade unionists.
At a time like this, we cannot remain silent.
Thank you.
Eric Lee
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‘Today, my work has just begun,’ mother of executed political prisoner, Farzad Kamangar
‘If we stay silent, these executions will continue,’ Mohammad Amin Kamangar, brother of executed political prisoner Farzad Kamangar
In the early hours of Sunday 9 May 2010, the Islamic regime of Iran executed political prisoners Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam-Houli and Mehdi Eslamian. The four young men and one woman were executed for their political opposition to the regime. Farzad Kamangar was a teacher and human rights activist who was arrested in 2006 and charged with ‘enmity against God’ in a ‘trial’ that lasted seven minutes. Mehdi Islamian was arrested on May 4, 2009 and spent six months in solitary confinement; his brother has also been executed. Shirin Alam Hooli was arrested in May 2008 in Tehran and sentenced to death in November 2009. Ali Heydarian and Farhad Vakili were imprisoned since 2006/2007.
The sentences were carried out in secret, without their families or lawyers being informed, and despite the fact that three of the cases were under review. The Islamic regime has refused to hand over the bodies of the dead unless their families guarantee that there will be no protests in Iran and abroad.
Since yesterday, thousands have gathered in protests at the Islamic Republic’s embassies and consulates in various cities across the globe. In London, Paris and Frankfurt angry demonstrators pelted the buildings with eggs, red paint and stones. The families of the five had called for a demonstration outside Tehran University in Iran on Monday 10 May, which was attacked by the regime’s security forces. On May 13 a general strike has been called in Iranian Kurdistan and elsewhere. Many are expected to join this day of protest.
Iran Solidarity is outraged at the executions of the five political prisoners as well as the recent execution of 45 Afghan immigrants in Iran and calls on people everywhere to stand in protest against executions in Iran and everywhere by joining the May 13 general strike and ongoing protests at the regime’s embassies or consulates or by carrying out acts of solidarity against executions wherever they are. Another 27 political prisoners are at imminent risk of execution and need public support.
Farzad Kamangar’s mother recently said: ‘If anyone can do anything, please do. Do not let them execute youngsters en masse. You and the world shall be my defence. Please let the world hear my plea.’
+++SOURCE: Jordan Times 10 May '10:"Iran hangs 5
members of Kurdish
'terrorist'
group",Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran hanged five members of a
Kurdish
"anti-revolutionary" group for various charges,
including "moharebe" or
waging war against God, the official IRNA news
agency reported on Sunday(9
May)
. . . (They) were members of the Party of Free
Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an
offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
which took up arms in 1984 for
an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey and
northwest Iran.
. . . Iran sees PJAK, which seeks autonomy for
Kurdish areas in Iran and
shelters in Iraq's northeastern border provinces,
as a terrorist group.
In recent years, Iranian forces have often clashed
with PJAK guerrillas, who
operate out of bases in northern Iraq. Kurds are
large minorities in Turkey,
Iran, Iraq and Syria.
The five Kurdish activists were convicted in 2008.
They were hanged after a
supreme court upheld their death sentences.. . .
Like Iraq and Turkey, Iran has a large Kurdish
minority, mainly living in
the Islamic republic's northwest and west. The
United States, Iran's arch
foe, in February 2009 also branded PJAK as a
terrorist organisation.