Farzad Kamangar (son of Baghi Kamangar), Ali Heydarian (son of Ahad Heydarian), Farhad Vakili (son of Mohammad Saeed Vakili), Shirin Alamhooli (daughter of Khadr Alamhooli) and Mehdi Eslamian (son of Mohammad Eslamian), were executed in Evin prison in Tehran on Sunday morning, 9 May 2010.
The regime-run Fars News Agency reported: “As announced by Tehran’s prosecutor general, these people were executed at dawn today.” Minutes after this announcement was made, Khalil Bahramian, Kamangar’s lawyer, stated that he has no information whatsoever regarding the execution of these individuals and that he will have more information after meeting with representatives of prosecutors office today.
Mehdi Islamian (photo left) was arrested on the 14th of Ordibehesht 1388 (May 4th, 2009) and spent six months in solitary confinement. His brother has also been executed. Eslamian who spent six months in solitary confinement is not the only member of his immediate family to be executed by the Iranian regime; a while back his older brother was also executed.
Recently, Farzad Kamangar wrote a letter to other imprisoned teachers. The following letter was published by Human Rights Activists News Agency.
« Be Strong Comrades »
Once upon a time, there was a mother fish who laid 10,000 eggs. Only one little black fish survived. He lives in a stream with his mother.
One day the little fish said to his mother, “I want to go away from here.” The mother asked, “Where to?” The little fish replied, “I want to go see where the stream ends.”…
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