By Hasse-Nima Golkar

Farzad Kamangar, born 1975; was a journalist, social worker, environmental activist, syndicate activist, … and village teacher in the city of Kamyaran, Kurdistan in northwestern Iran.

He was arrested in July 2006 during a trip to Tehran and subsequently subjected to severe torture in various prisons by the ruling fascist Shia Islamic State in Iran. Farzad was accused, among other things, of being a member of the “Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK)” and thus the death penalty without any evidence and without being given the right to choose his own defense lawyer.

Farzad Kamangar was executed on May 9, 2010, in the notorious Evin prison in northern Tehran, along with other political prisoners; Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alamhouli and Mehdi Eslamian.

The bodies were never handed over to the families, and their burial places are still unknown.

Farzad Kamangar, has written a letter from prison to his students, among other things: ”Hello Children! I miss all of you. Here, day and night, I write with your thoughts and sweet memories about the poetry of life. Every day greet the Sun instead of you. Behind these high walls, I wake up with you, I laugh with you, and then I sleep with you…..

I wish: We could study together the Kurdish alphabets again in secret and away from the eyes of the surly schoolmaster. We could read poems and singing to each other in our mother tongue. Then could we hold hands together to dance and dance and dance”!