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IRAN
FARZAD KAMANGER, an Iranian teacher, has been brutally and repeatedly tortured since his arrest in 2006 and is now facing the imminent possibility of execution. He was sentenced to death by the Iranian Revolutionary Court on February 25, 2008, charged with "endangering national security" and "enmity against God." According to his lawyer, Khalil Bahramian, who was not permitted to defend him, Farzad's trial took place in secret, lasted only minutes, and failed to meet Iranian and international standards of fairness. Education International, which has featured his case, reports that Kamanger worked for 12 years as a teacher in the city of Kamyaran, Iran, before he was arrested and placed in detention. He also sat on the governing board of both a local environmentalist group and the local branch of the teachers association. Kamanger wrote actively for the monthly journal Royan, a publication of the Department of Education of Kamyaran. He was also a writer with a local human rights organization that documents human rights abuses in Kurdistan and other provinces.
ESHA MOMENI, a US-Iranian student, was recently held for three weeks in an Iranian prison and is currently being prevented from leaving the country. Momeni, a master's student at California State University at Northridge, was working in Iran on a documentary about Iranian feminists when she was pulled over and arrested for supposed traffic offenses on October 15, 2008. She was held in Iran's Evin prison where she was charged with "undermining national security and spreading propaganda against the republic" Information current, to the best of our knowledge, as of December 11, 2008. as a result of her interviews with individuals involved in the One Million Signatures campaign for women's rights. Now released on bail, Momeni has been told that she can return to the United States prior to her trial, but the Los Angeles Times has reported that she has been prevented from doing so by authorities who have continued to withhold her passport.
Appeals for both Kamanger and Momeni to:
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed
'Ali Khamenei
Leader of the Islamic Republic
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