Kamangar’s crime was standing for human rights: Bus Workers Syndicate

Tehran and Municipality Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate issued an statement on the execution of Farzad Kamangar.

Intimidation and Execution are Reprehensible

We are mourning a teacher whose gears were those of chalk and pen; a teacher of many children who put their heads hungry on the pillows at nights. His crime was standing for human rights. A crime that, for the last one hundred years, has sent many into their graves and put many families in sorrow. In the last four years, many national and international organizations had condemned the imprisonment of Farzad Kamangar and more importantly had called for impartial and legal examination of his case. Representatives from international organizations had repeatedly requested to send delegations in order to visit him in prison; the requests which were never accepted.

Sadly his family did not have the right and the chance to see him in his last moments. These executions are happening at a time when our people have always and every where denounced violence in any of its manifestations.

Iranian and world labor movements have lost a teacher who did not stop learning and to teaching even in prison. We convey our condolences to the Kamangar family and his class counterparts all over the world for loosing Farzad.

As we have reiterated several times in the past, we call for the elimination of death penalty and consider the sentences by the illegal courts as void and invalid. We all for the release of all civic movement prisoners including Messes, Madadi and Osaloo.

Wishing for the spread of peace and justice throughout the world

Tehran and Municipality Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate
May 2010