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اعتراض اتحادیه "آموزش و پرورش
بین الملل" به حکم اعدام فرزاد کمانگر
"معلمان و فعالین اتحادیه ای در
سراسر جهان عمیقا نسبت به آنچه بر همکاران ما در ایران می گذرد حساس و نگرانند. ما
این اوضاع را بدقت زیر نظر داریم و به فقدان شدید روندی عادلانه و احترام به حقوق
اتحادیه ای در این پرونده خشمگین و معترضیم."
فرد فن لوون
(Fred van Leeuwen)
دبیر کل اتحادیه
"آموزش و پرورش بین الملل"
(Education International)
ضمن اظهار انزجار خود از حکم صادره٬ مراتب نگرانی این سازمان را نسبت به سرنوشت
فرزاد کمانگر بیان داشت.
(EI
سازمان سراسری اتحادیه های
معلمان و کارکنان آموزش و پرورش در سراسر جهان است و نزدیک به ٣٠ میلیون عضو دارد.)
http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/show.php?id=818&theme=rights&country=iran
 News
[2008-07-17] Iranian court
upholds death sentence against teacher trade unionist
Farzad
Kamangar could face execution in the near future, according to the web site
Human Rights Activists in Iran. On 11 July, the Iranian Supreme Court confirmed
the death penalty against Kamangar, a 33-year-old Kurdish teacher and trade
unionist.
Kamangar’s
lawyer, Khalil Bahramian, said that although he has not yet received written
details of the judgment, the Revolutionary Court verbally confirmed that the
death sentence stands. However, Bahramian is determined to continue the fight to
free Kamangar. He said, “I will use all legal means to protest this new
judgment. If I do not receive a convincing response regarding my client’s
acquittal, I will complain to the [International Court of Justice at the]
Hague.”
General
Secretary Fred van Leeuwen deplored the ruling and expressed Education
International’s concern for Kamangar’s fate. “Teachers and trade unionists
around the world care deeply about what is happening to our colleagues in Iran.
We are carefully monitoring events and feeling a great deal of outrage that fair
process and respect for trade union rights is so severely lacking in this case,”
van Leeuwen said.
EI has
written to the Iranian authorities urging them to commute the sentence
immediately and to re-examine Kamangar’s case fairly, as the death penalty is
irreparable and no judicial system should run the risk of condemning an innocent
person. EI has also been appealing to Iranian government representatives to meet
and discuss Kamangar’s case, but to date these efforts have been unsuccessful.
Kamangar
himself released a short message from prison saying, “This verdict has been
communicated to me, and prison and judgment enforcement officials have asked me
to write a letter requesting forgiveness. The problem is that I have not
committed any crime to ask for forgiveness.”
Kamangar
added, “They want to break my morale but I have to say I am doing well and my
spirits are high. My only point is that I have never been a member of any
political party or group…. They want to use me as a scapegoat.”
Kamangar
was arrested in Tehran in July 2006 and since then has been held in various
detention centres in Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Tehran. He was charged with
Moharebeh, which literally means “enmity against God,” and with membership in
the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK). He was sentenced to death by the Iranian
Revolutionary Court on 25 February on the basis of “absolutely zero evidence,”
according to his lawyer, who said that the trial lasted only a few minutes, took
place in secret and failed to meet even the minimum standards of fairness.
The judgment was met
with widespread protest and Kamangar’s case has been taken up by Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights defenders. Kamangar has
published several letters from prison maintaining his innocence and detailing
ill-treatment, including such severe torture inflicted in Evin Prison that he
had to be transferred to the prison clinic.
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