Career
Kamangar was prosecuted on charges of mohareb "enmity towards God". According to his lawyer, Khalil Bahramian, “Nothing in Kamangar’s judicial files and records demonstrates any links to the charges brought against him.”
Bahramian, the lawyer, who was present during the closed-door court hearing, described it as
“Lasting no more than five minutes, with the Judge issuing his sentence without any explanation and then promptly leaving the room.. I have seen absolutely zero evidence presented against Kamangar.
In my forty years in the legal profession, I have never witnessed such a prosecution.”
Foreign this denial, Kamangar was repeatedly tortured.
Amnesty International reports that Kamangar was repeatedly beaten, flogged, and electrocuted, and that he suffered from spasms in his arms and legs as a result of the torture. The Supreme Court officially confirmed Kamangar"s death sentence on July 11, 2008.
Kamangar was one of the six political prisoners highlighted in the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran"s September 18, 2008 document "Rights Crisis Escalates, Faces and Cases from Ahmadinejad"s Crackdown"
Kamangar participated in the hunger strike to protest the execution of Ehsan Fatahian. Amnesty International, Education International, and other teachers" and human rights organizations have called for Mr.
Kamangar"s sentence to be commuted.
Kamangar in a piece describes his time at the prison as follows:
"..I spent close to a month in solitary isolation, at the end of the first floor, in section 113. lieutenant had a horrible stench. During the 3 months of solitary confinement I was not allowed to go out in the free air.
After enduring these months they moved me to a bigger cell, cell number 10, a cell intended for several persons, and I spent close to two months there.
Still I was not allowed to have any contact with a lawyer or my family.."
A part of Kamangar"s letter "Be Strong Comrades":
"Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet? Is it possible to be in the year of no justice and fairness and fail to teach the H for Hope and East for Equality, even if such teachings land you in Evin prison or result in your death?".