NCRI – More than 1,000 gathered outside the prosecutor's office to call for Farzad Kamangar's release form prison in the northwestern city of Sanandaj. Kamangar, a teacher and political activist, has been sentenced to death by the mullahs' judiciary.
Citizens of various regions in the Iranian Kurdistan had come to protest to the imprisonment of Farzad Kamangar and other political prisoners.
From early morning hours, the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – cordoned the participant not allowing them to march in the streets of Sanandaj.
The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) arrested Kamangar in Tehran in July 2006 and held him in various detention centers in Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and Tehran.
During a period of detention in Ward 209 of the notorious Evin Prison — run by the MOIS — in August 2006, officials tortured him to such an extent that they had to transfer him to the prison clinic to receive medical attention. He was severely tortured and was subject to ill-treatment while in detention in the cities of Sanandaj in Kurdistan province and Kermanshah.
The mullahs' Supreme Court upheld an earlier death sentence by a lower court for three Kurdish political activists Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian and Farhad Vakili on Friday. The three were first arrested in April 2006 and tried in the lower court in February 2007.
