Farzad Kamangar

فرزاد کمانگر

35 years old · Tehran

9 May 2010 Executed

Life

• Teacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker
  Persian original

  Teacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker

• Teacher with the Education Department of Kamyaran County with 12 years of teaching experience
  Persian original

  معلم آموزش و پرورش شهرستان کامیاران با ۱۲ سال سابقه تدریس

• Son of Baghi
  Persian original

  فرزند باقی

• Farzad Kamangar taught in Kamyaran for twelve years. He was a member of environmental and educational associations. He wrote with finesse in defence of society's pluralism and the basic rights of citizens.
  Persian original

  فرزاد کمانگر دوازده سال در کامیاران تدریس ‌کرد. او عضو انجمن‌های محیط زیستی و آموزشی بود. او با ظرافت در دفاع از پلورالیسم جامعه و حقوق اولیه شهروندان می‌نوشت.

• Mr. Farzad Kamangar deeply believed in peaceful civic struggle to end discrimination
  Persian original

  آقای فرزاد کمانگر عمیقاً به مبارزات مدنی صلح آمیز برای رفع تبعیض اعتقاد داشت

• In the last days of his life, in Ordibehesht 1389, Farzad Kamangar wrote a letter titled “Be strong, comrade” to imprisoned teachers, which was published by HRANA
  Persian original

  فرزاد کمانگر در آخرین روزهای زندگیش در اردیبهشت ماه ١٣٨٩ نامه ای با عنوان «قوی باش رفیق» به معلمان زندانی نوشت که توسط هرانا منتشر شد

• After being transferred again to Evin, Mr. Kamangar continued to be subjected to much interrogation and torture, and in protest at the agents' treatment he went on hunger strike for thirty-three days
  Persian original

  پس از انتقال دوباره به اوین آقای کمانگر کماکان تحت بازجویی و شکنجه بسیار قرار می گیرد و در اعتراض به رفتار مأموران سی و سه روز به اعتصاب غذا دست می زند

In the words of those close to them

The tenderness of Farzad's feelings and pen was something rare.— His fellow prisoner

Persian original

لطافت احساس و قلم فرزاد یه چیزی بود که کم نظیر بود.

“As the person closest to Farzad, and as he himself declared many times, I declare that he had no connection with any political current and that all of this was a fabricated case.— Mehrdad, Farzad Kamangar's brother

Persian original

«من به عنوان نزدیکترین فرد به فرزاد، خودش هم که بارها اعلام کرد، اعلام می کنم که هیچ ارتباطی با هیچ جریان سیاسی نداشت و همه اینها پرونده بود.

The governor again gave an evasive answer and said: if we show you their grave, it will become a place for gatherings.”— Farzad Kamangar's mother

Persian original

استاندار باز جواب سربالا داد و گفت قبرشان را نشان‌تان دهیم می‌شود محل برپایی تجمع.»

The case

• He was hanged on 19 Ordibehesht 1389 in Evin Prison without the knowledge of his lawyer and family and was buried secretly, without his family present, in an unknown location
  Persian original

  وی در ۱۹ اردیبهشت ۱۳۸۹ در زندان اوین بدون اطلاع وکیل و خانواده اش به دارآویخته شد و مخفیانه بدون حضور خانواده در محل نامعلومی دفن شد

• Execution » hanging
  Persian original

  اعدام » حلق آویز

After their death

• He was buried secretly, without his family present, in an unknown location
  Persian original

  مخفیانه بدون حضور خانواده در محل نامعلومی دفن شد

• Following this visit, intelligence and security forces contacted the family members and threatened that if these visits were repeated they would arrest them
  Persian original

  در پی این ملاقات، نیروهای اطلاعاتی و امنیتی با اعضای خانواده تماس گرفته و آن ها را تهدید کردند در صورت تکرار این ملاقات ها آنها را بازداشت خواهد نمود

Sources

1. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center — Omid memorial
2. English Wikipedia
3. Persian Wikipedia

The name is recorded in at least two independent sources or in a human-rights organisation’s report.

Listed in

• Executed
• Executed on charges of “moharebeh”, “baghi”, “corruption on earth” or espionage
• Kurdish citizens
• Workers
• Teachers
• The year 1389 (2010–2011)
• Tehran Province
• Tehran

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