A memorial to those who died in the cause of humanity.

 

 

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 The venue of the event on Saturday 09/05/2026 has been changed by the police and the notice has been updated below!
Activities and rallies against the inhuman death sentences of the Iranian regime on the anniversary of the execution of Farzad Kamangar and his comrades in Normalmtoriet Square in Stockholm.
By participating, you can oppose the murderous Islamic regime of Iran and support the struggle for the rights of the princes.

 On May 9, 2010, the anniversary of the execution of the humane teacher
Name: Farzad Nickname: Kamangar
Year of birth: 1976
Place of birth: Kamyaran
Date of death: 05-09-2010
Place of martyrdom: Tehran - Iran
Biography
Farzad Kamangar (1974 – 19 May 2010, date of birth and death: 9 May 2010) was a Kurdish teacher from eastern Kurdistan who was sentenced to death on charges of membership and collaboration with the PJAK. He never admitted the charges, but at dawn on Sunday, 19 May 2010, he was hanged in Evin Prison along with Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alamhouli and Mehdi Eslamian. In recognition of his activities, Farzad Kamangar was also an honorary special rapporteur for human rights activists in Iran. UNESCO mentioned the issue of Farzad Kamangar's execution in its report on pressures against educational spaces. The European Union condemned his death sentence and Human Rights Watch described him as a teacher.
Farzad Kamangar, the headmaster of the Kar and Danesh Art School in Kamyaran city in southern Kurdistan province, was a member of the Teachers’ Association and the Environmental Association of ASK (Ahu), and wrote under the pseudonym (Siamand) for the monthly cultural and educational magazine Royan, which belongs to the Kamyaran Education Department. He was active in the field of ethnic rights and women’s issues and was arrested in July 2006 while traveling to Tehran with his friend.

A sketch of Farzad Kamangar's face
According to the Tehran Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office, when the group was arrested, 22 kilograms of explosives, 57 RPG bullets, and 300 posters of the PJAK leaders were discovered on them, and the explosion of two bombs in the buildings of the governor's office and the commercial department of Kermanshah on February 19, 2006, and the explosion of the Iranian gas export pipeline to Turkey were among their actions. However, according to the lawyer in the case, Khalil Bahramian, these claims were never proven.

Arrest
Farzad Kamangar was an education teacher in Kamyaran County with 12 years of teaching experience; when he came to Tehran in August 2006 to follow up on the issue of his brother's treatment, he was arrested on charges of membership in PJAK and participation in several bombings and sabotage operations. At the beginning of his arrest, he was tortured in Ward 209 of Evin Prison and the Sanandaj and Kermanshah Intelligence Detention Centers. During this 33-month prison term, he was tortured for months in solitary confinement and in Evin, Rajai Shahr, and Sanandaj prisons. Prison officials played the Quran recitation loudly while torturing and harassing him.

Death sentence
Opponents of the death penalty claim that there was no documented and credible evidence in Kamangar’s case and that his lack of connection to groups opposing the Islamic Republic was clear. However, based on the case documents, some of which were publicly released in state media, he was finally sentenced to death in March 2007 by Branch 30 of the Revolutionary Court for membership in the PKK. Khalil Bahramian, the lawyer for Kamangar and the three other executed prisoners, said after the verdict:
❞The judge in the case did not listen to Kamangar and me, and I believe that Kamangar was 100% innocent and was not even a member of the PKK; He was not a member, nor a supporter, he was not a personality who was a fan of these programs at all. ❝

The gentlemen do not have even a needle's head of evidence. If they claim to, they should bring it before a series of impartial and honorable Iranian judges who have been judges of courts and international judges. If they have the slightest evidence against Farzad, in addition to being willing to tear up my law license forever, I am willing to endure any punishment.

This verdict was widely protested by political, civil, and human rights activists of the opposition inside and outside Iran, but the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, issued a new ruling on his death sentence. According to a report in this regard, "According to the contents of the case, the defendants are all members of the PJAK group and have been organizing the organization of the said group in Iran since 1998 by recruiting forces and propaganda. In 2003, they established the PJAK group and began their armed activities in order to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran. Among their actions are the explosion of two bombs in the command and commercial office buildings of Kermanshah on May 9, 2006 and the explosion of Iran's export pipeline to Turkey. The defendants in the case were in charge of bombings in Iran under the command of a person with the pseudonym Kamal (from Turkey), and accordingly, members of the group named Mohammad (with the pseudonyms Zaratesh and Bahman) and Ali Heydarian (with the pseudonyms Soran and Peyman) entered Iran and were provided with fake documents through Farzad Kamangar to bomb places in Tehran." The case file of the five men, published by the Tehran Prosecutor's Office, states that Farzad Kamangar "showed himself unaware of the existence of explosives" during interrogations, but according to the Ministry of Intelligence's investigations, "one of Farzad Kamangar's brothers, named Shirzad, is active in a party in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, and has a history of conviction for collaborating with the PKK." According to the announcement, Mr. Kamangar was arrested when security officers visited his residence in August 2006 after discovering explosives in a car in Tehran and arresting one of the occupants of the car, where Farzad Kamangar was also arrested. He was also accused of collaborating with two PKK members in the explosion of the Iran-Turkey oil pipeline.

 Burial
After the execution, the bodies of the executed were not handed over to their families, and security and judicial officials announced that ensuring peace in Kurdistan was a condition for handing over the bodies of the executed. Four days after the execution, the bodies were still not handed over to the families, some family members of the executed were arrested, and security officials announced that since the executed were war criminals, they would be buried somewhere far from the Muslim cemetery. On June 12, 2010, Farzad Kamangar's mother, along with relatives of Farhad Vakili and Ali Heydarian, met with the governor of Kurdistan to hand over the bodies of the executed, and they were told:

The executed were buried in a place that we are currently unable to disclose due to security conditions, and after time has passed and the situation is favorable, the officials will tell you their burial place.

About a month after the execution, Khalil Bahramian, the lawyer for Farzad and some of the executed prisoners, protested the secret burial of the bodies and the lack of information to the families of the executed, saying:
❞We have written letters to everyone possible, from provincial officials to members of parliament, the head of the judiciary, and everyone who should have been held accountable in this regard, but unfortunately, the head of the judiciary is a Shah Sultan Hussein who is incompetent and spineless, sitting in an important seat in the country, only issuing arrest warrants. ❝

Reactions to the execution
The publication of the news of the execution of Kamangar and four others sparked reactions inside and outside Iran.
Opponents
A number of family members of the five who were executed attempted to hold a sit-in in front of Tehran University on Monday, May 10, 2020, but their attempt was thwarted by the security forces who had previously surrounded the area. In London, several people who identified themselves as members of the Workers' Communist Party attacked the Iranian consulate building and broke its windows. In Paris, a number of protesters broke the embassy's CCTV cameras. French police arrested a number of protesters. In Washington, protesters gathered in front of the Islamic Republic's Interests Protection Office. In Oslo, protesters demonstrated in front of the Iranian embassy, ​​which was accompanied by clashes.

Another protest sit-in had begun on Sunday in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. A number of Turkish Kurds marched near the zero point on the border with Iran. Scattered protests also took place in Piranshahr, Kamyaran, Saqqez, Sanandaj, and the Bagh Shaygan area of ​​Mahabad, which in some cases led to unrest and the atmosphere in these cities became highly security-conscious.

A number of Iranians living in Cologne and Berlin also protested the executions. A protest ceremony was also held in Hamburg.
Mir Hossein Mousavi protested the execution of the five prisoners in a statement, calling the trial and trial process unfair and questionable on the eve of June and the first anniversary of the presidential election.
The International Federation of Teachers Unions, in a statement, called the day of Farzad Kamangar’s execution a catastrophic day for teachers, trade union activists, and human rights activists. The Swedish Teachers Union also issued a statement condemning Farzad Kamangar’s execution.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran condemned the executions in a statement, calling it a sign of the spread of state terror.
Iranians living in Washington gathered in front of the office of the Iranian Ombudsman to protest the execution of Farzad Kamangar.
The French Green Party, in a statement published in Paris, condemned the execution of the five prisoners.
Zahra Rahnavard raised questions in a note and asked if these hasty executions were intended to poison the public on the 22nd anniversary of Khordad?
Kaveh Ahangari of the Kurdistan Democratic Party also said: The regime that attributes the earthquake to women's clothing has no credibility in its claim to call those victims terrorists.
On May 11, 2010, the Center for Human Rights Defenders, in a letter to the head of the judiciary, raised objections to the trial and execution process of Kamangar and four other executioners:

 The rules of fair trial, including the implementation of Article 168 of the Constitution, and in particular the openness of the court, have not been observed in practice.
In particular, according to Farzad Kamangar's lawyer, the death penalty was not proportionate to the deceased's performance and he was found innocent.
The execution of the death sentence was carried out without any information from the lawyers or even their families, and without the presence of the convicted persons' lawyers at the execution ceremony.
Regarding the execution of Kamangar and four others, Mehdi Karroubi said: "The execution of these individuals took place in a situation where no one is aware of the nature of their cases, and their crimes have not been proven to anyone due to the lack of publicity of the court and the lack of compliance with the procedure and the law. It is unclear in what position these gentlemen see themselves that they easily and without considering the outcome of the case." Of course, when human life becomes so cheap that some people are shot in the street for a civil protest, such unethical behavior also becomes common.
The Iranian Writers' Association issued a statement condemning the execution of five people and calling for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran. The Iranian Alumni Organization issued a statement.
On Thursday, May 13, 2010, in protest of the execution of five Kurdish citizens, the markets of the cities of Mahabad, Sanandaj, Bukan, Marivan, Kamyaran, Kermanshah and some other regions of Kurdistan were semi-closed, the streets were deserted, security forces were deployed in the main centers of the cities, and reports of strikes were published in some Kurdish cities in Iran.
The European Union strongly condemned the execution of five prisoners and called for the cancellation of the execution of two other political prisoners, Zeinab Jalalian and Hossein Khazri.

Simin Behbahani, protesting the execution of five people, wrote a poem that begins with this line: Tell me how to write, there were not five people/ Not five, but fifty in my memories. Yadollah Royaei also wrote a poem called “Face means don’t kill!”

Afghans also held a protest rally in front of the Iranian consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to protest the execution and mistreatment of Afghan immigrants in Iran, carrying photos of the five executed Iranians. A group of these protesters held photos with the slogans “My Farzad is not dead” and “We are all Farzad Kamangrim.”

Labor unions in France and Canada condemned the execution of political prisoners in Iran. The heads of the French General Confederation of Workers and the Canadian Union of Public Service Workers protested the executions in letters to Ali Khamenei.

A number of Iranians living in Denmark and Sweden held protest rallies in front of the embassies of the Islamic Republic and other parts of Stockholm, and in some cases faced strong police reactions.

Akbar Ganji considered the executions part of the transition process to a Saddam Hussein-style government, and said:
Ayatollah Khamenei first turns these five people into “terrorists,” then executes the young people he considers “terrorists,” thus placing the leaders of the Green Movement in a difficult position so that if they defend the executed, they will be considered supporters of terrorism. The courageous condemnation of this crime by Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and Zahra Rahnavard showed that the era of this type of deception is over.

Shahin Najafi also protested this political execution after the 2009 elections by singing a song called “Brother of the Dead.”

The National Council of Religious Activists wrote in a statement referring to the execution of Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad Reza Alizamani: The execution of two young prisoners on the eve of February 11 last year and following the post-election events, while they were essentially arrested before the elections, and the accusations against them that were strongly denied by their lawyers and acquaintances, and the repeated news that they were promised their release in exchange for accepting some false accusations in court; have made public opinion highly skeptical and disbelieving of official propaganda news regarding political crimes. Now, skepticism and disbelief still exist in relation to the recent sudden execution.
Memorial
In Syrian Kurdistan, after the establishment of the "Democratic Self-Government of Western Kurdistan" eliminated the dominance of the Syrian Baath Party government from the northern regions of the country, an organization called the Kurdish Language Organization was established. The Kurdish Language Organization launched Kurdish language academies for public literacy and Kurdish language education, and named the first Kurdish language academy after Farzad Kamangar, the Martyr Farzad Kamangar Academy.

Also, after the Turkish government accepted changes to the country's laws within the framework of peace negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the government allowed the teaching of Kurdish in private schools. The first private Kurdish school in Diyarbakir, Kurdistan, Turkey, which was established in 2014, was named in memory of Farzad Kamangar, the Farzad Kamangar School; and