A few miles outside the city, the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – caught up with the marchers and forced them to board the SSF buses back to Kamyaran. The agents did not allow the citizens to return on foot fearing a more widespread demonstration. The SSF seized the protesters cell phones and cameras.
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.