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Outrage over planned execution of teacher in Iran
26 Novembro 2008
The ITF has expressed outrage over plans to execute an Iranian Kurdish teacher and social worker in Iran today.
Farzad Kamangar, a teachers’ trade unionist, has been sentenced to death on “absolutely zero evidence” according to his lawyer and could be hanged today. Sources say that he has been taken from his cell at Tehran’s Evin prison in preparation for execution. Security officers at the prison are reported to have informed him that he is to be executed imminently, taunted him and called him a martyr.
Iran’s revolutionary court issued the death sentence against Kamangar on 25 February this year. His lawyer has said: “Nothing in Kamangar’s judicial files and records demonstrates any links to the charges brought against him. He states that Kamangar was cleared of all charges during the investigation process.
Kamangar has not been allowed to see his lawyer or family for the past two months. In June, Education International (EI), which represents teachers’ unions in 172 countries, launched a campaign appealing to the Iranian authorities to commute Kamangar’s death sentence and ensure his case is reviewed fairly.
The ITF, along with the International Trade Union Confederation, is backing EI’s plea to the Iranian authorities to halt the execution and for intervention by the international community.
ITF General Secretary David Cockroft said: “It is shocking to learn that even in spite of joint efforts from various national and international organisations to have the death sentence of Farzad Kamangar commuted, it has been upheld by the Supreme Court. The ITF and the ITUC deplore the death penalty and demand that Kamangar’s sentence be commuted.”
To register your protest go to: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=453
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