Execution of Farzad Kamangar

Culture of origin: Kurdish · Historical

Holiday sources: Iran · Kurdish

At dawn on 19 Ordibehesht 1389 (9 May 2010) the Islamic Republic hanged Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish teacher and poet from Kamyaran, in Evin Prison with Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alamhouli and Mehdi Eslamian. A Revolutionary Court had sentenced him for 'enmity against God' after a hearing his lawyer said lasted under five minutes with no evidence; Amnesty reported he was beaten, flogged and electrocuted. The bodies were buried in secret.