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Kamyaran residents stage angry protest against execution of political prisoners

People of Kamyaran poured out in streets to show their anger against execution of Farzad Kamangar and other political prisonersPeople of Kamyaran poured out in streets to show their anger against execution of Farzad Kamangar and other political prisoners

NCRI – The execution of Farzad Kamangar, a political prisoner, provoked widespread anger in the city of Kamyaran on Sunday. He was a well-known teacher in this city.

The clerical regime, in fear of people’s protest, deployed a large number of suppressive forces and their vehicles across the city, particularly around Kamangar’s residence.

Addressing the crowd who had gathered to express their sympathy and condolences, Farzad’s mother said: “Farzad is not dead, he has just come to life, each of Farzad’s student and people of Kurdistan are one Farzad now.”

Farzad Kamangar, 35, with 12 years of teaching experience was a member of Teachers’ Trade Association in the Iranian Kurdistan. He endured four years in prison before he was hanged on Sunday along with four other political prisoners in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.

His family was not informed of the decision to execute him and in response to enquiries by his lawyer the authorities told him that his file had been lost.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described the execution of five political prisoners on Sunday, including a woman, as the sign of the regime’s vulnerability in face of the Iranian people’s anger and its fear of spreading of uprising in the country to overthrow the faltering clerical regime. She called on the United Nations Secretary General, UN Security Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights and other concerned bodies to condemn these heinous crimes.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 9, 2010