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This month marks the scond anniversay of five Kurdish political prisoners who were killed by the illegal occupying Terrorist Shia-Fascist Islamic Republic of Iran. 
Farzad Kamangar, Shirin Alam Hooli, Farzad Vakili, Ali Heydarian, and Mehdi Eslamian -- were hanged on the morning of May 9 in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. According to the indictment reeleased by the Terrorist Regime ministry of Justice, the three men were guilty of "armed activities to overthrow the Islamic establishment in 2003 by creating the PJAK group in Iran". They were therefore declared "Moreb" and sentenced to death. All five were issued their death sentences by none other than the notorious hanging judge Abolghasem Salavati of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.

The female aong them Shirin Hooli, an Iranian kurd from Maku did not even speak Faarsi fluently and was subjected to both mental and physical torture. Hooli had written about her degrading treatment in letters to her mother and sister which she described herself as a hostage. According to an Amnesty International statement written on 11 May 2010, Shirin "was repeatedly beaten, including on the soles of her feet, kicked in the stomach, causing internal bleeding, and when she went on hunger strike, force fed through nasal tubes  which she ripped out in protest, damaging her nose. She said she had made a videotaped "confession" after she was hospitalized and given an injection". 

Six days before she was executed Shirin released the following letter dated may 3rd 2010

" I am entering my third year of imprisonment, three years under the worst conditions behind bars in Evin prison. I spent the first two years of my imprisonment without a lawyer and in pre-trial custody. All my inquiries about my case went unanswered until I was unjustly sentenced to death.

Why have I been imprisoned and why am I going to be executed? For what crime? Is it because I am Kurdish? If that’s the case then I must say I was born a Kurd and my language is Kurdish; the language that I use to communicate with my family, friends, and community. It is also the language I grew up with. However, I am not allowed to speak my language or read it.  I am not allowed to go to school and study my own language and I am not allowed to write it. They are telling me to deny my Kurdish identity, but if I do, that means I have to deny who I am.

Mr. Judge and Interrogator: When you were interrogating me, I couldn’t speak your language and couldn’t understand you. I learned Farsi in the past two years in the women’s ward  of the prison from my friends. But you interrogated me, tried me, and sentenced me in your own language, even though I couldn’t understand it and couldn’t defend myself. The torture that you subjected me to has become my [worst] nightmare. I am in constant pain because of the torture. The blows to my head during the interrogation has caused major complications. Sometimes I suffer from severe headaches. I lose all sense of myself  and my nose begins to bleed from the pain. This lasts for several hours before I begin feel normal again.  Your “gift” of torture has left me with damage to my eyes, which are worsening every day. My request for eye glasses has gone unanswered. When I entered this prison, my hair was black.  Now, after three years of imprisonment, my hair has begun to turn white. I know you have done this not only to me but to all Kurds including Zeynab Jalalian and Ronak Safarzadeh.

The eyes of Kurdish mothers are full of tears, waiting to see their children. They are in a state of constant worry, in fear that each phone call may bring the news of the execution of their children. Today is May 2, 2010, and once again, they took me to ward 209 of Evin prison for interrogation. They asked me to cooperate with them in order to receive a pardon from execution."

Following her death, Shirin's sister and mother have also been arrested and kept under strict surveillance  

Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish school teacher and social worker  was convicted of membership of being part of a Kurdish resistance movement, in what his lawyer halil Bahramian describes as a trial last no more than five minutes in February of 2010 almost two years after his arrest and arbitrary detention in 2008. Bahramian said,"“Nothing in Kamangar’s judicial files and records demonstrates any links to the charges brought against him.....“I have seen absolutely zero evidence presented against Kamangar. In my forty years of legal profession, I have never witnessed such a prosecution". According to Amnest Kamangar, "was whipped, held in a freezing cold room and guards played 'football' with his body, surrounding him and pummelling him as he was "passed" between guards." [Note: Please remember this next time Trita Parsi and NIAC try to convince you that the Islamic Republic are "rational" people who can be negotiated with, or those morons who claim that change "can come from within". Yeah right. Only after you've been kicked around like a football first]

The execution of these five innocenet individuals was nothing more than a campaign of intimidation against Iran's Kurdish comunity. There was no evidence that any of these innocenet Iranians had links with Kurdish groups demanding secession from Iran and at he most they were seeking for greater Kurdish identity in a pluralist Iran. Even if they were supporters (and not members of) of PJAK, this would hardly be a capital offence and at the very least they were entitled to be presented with the evidence confirming their guilt. The Islamic Shia Fascist Terrorist Regime has done irreparable damage to Iranian ethnic minorities and its policies of terror have increaed tensions between Fars (Pars) and other groups such as Kurds, Azari Turks and Baluch. If anything the reign of fascist Islamic Terror has only caused more people to identify with their own cultural or regional ethnicities. Only last year the world withnessed the arrogance and indifference of the Terrorist shia-Islamo fascist regime towards the disappearance of Lake Urumiyeh which galvanised many Azari Turks to take to the streets in protest. Simialr ethnic tensions have also arisen in Ahwaz in the Khuzestan region where Iranian Arabs have experienced racist policies from the Shia-Fascist Regime. The Terrorist actions of Kahemenei's corrupt and evil regime has caused Fars people to be identified as oppressors.

We commemorate the memories of our innocent patriotic Kudish Iranian compatriots. May their death be avenged. May their jailers and persecutors die an agonising death. May all those who have persecuted innocenet Iranians at the order of the Islamic Republic die an excrutiating death. 

DEATH TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. CONDMENT IT. FIGHT IT. DESTROY IT.