Human Rights & Democracy for Iran
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Interrupted Lives: Portraits of Student Repression in Iran

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Iran Should Return Bodies of Execution Victims, Giving Closure to the Families

Two years have gone by since that terrible morning of May 9, 2010 when the human rights community woke up to the news of the execution of Farzad Kamangar, the 34 year-old Sunni teacher and human rights activist from Iranian Kurdistan. Kamangar, and four other political prisoners.Farzad Kamangar “ had a unique softness in his emotions and his writings. He was one of those loveable myths. Someone who liked to help those who were deprived from education; those who could build the future of this region [Kurdistan] of the Country”.(Former cellmate Kamiar Alaei)

Kamangar was not the only political prisoner taken to the gallows and secretly and unlawfully hanged on May 9th, 2010. With him, four other political prisoners, Shirin Alam-Holi, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, and Mehdi Eslamia were also executed in secret and buried in an unknown location. They were all accused of "enmity against God" for carrying out "terrorist acts"; they had all protested against the violation of due process of law in their cases and the harsh treatment and torture they had been subjected to.

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A Story from the Memorial

Tatavous Michaelian

Age: 69

Occupation: clergy

Religion: Christianity

Nationality: Iran

The information about the extrajudicial killing of Reverend Tatavous Michaelian is drawn from a a 1995 report by Amnesty International. "Amnesty International includes in its definition of extrajudicial executions the killing of specific individuals which... (read more...)

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