Farzad Kamangar

Farzad Kamangar is a 32-year-old Kurdish teacher and social worker in the city of Kamyaran, was prosecuted on charges of membership in the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). An Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced Kamangar to death on February 25, 2008. According to his lawyer, Khalil Bahramian, “Nothing in Kamangar’s judicial files and records demonstrates any links to the charges brought against him.”

Bahramian, the lawyer, who was present during the closed-door court hearing, described it as

“lasting no more than five minutes, with the Judge issuing his sentence without any explanation and then promptly leaving the room. ... I have seen absolutely zero evidence presented against Kamangar. In my forty years in the legal profession, I have never witnessed such a prosecution.”

The Supreme Court officially confirmed Kamangar's death sentence on July 11, 2008. He could be executed at any moment.

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* [http://www.iranhumanrights.org/themes/rights-crisis-escalates.html RIGHTS CRISIS ESCALATES, September 2008]