Think-Peace
Mock execution
“A mock execution is a method of psychological
torture,
whereby the subject is made to believe that he is being led to his execution.
This usually involves blindfolding the subject, making him recount last wishes,
or making him dig his own grave,
and sometimes it can go as far as forcing the victim to watch a single or
multiple real executions taking place under the same circumstances to make the
victim believe he or she is next. Discharging a firearm near (but not at) the
victim, or firing blanks, might end the mock execution.
It is hoped
that by making the subject believe that he is to be executed they will be
inflicted with severe psychological trauma. This may eventually lead
to a break down where the victim would say anything to make it stop, or it
might act as a warning that future infractions may bring about a real execution.
.”
Wikipedia
Yesterday some of us following the
news of rights activists in Iran died a little.
Sources had warned that
among the group who
were to be executed at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran,
we would also find Farzad Kamangar,
the Kurdish teacher and union activist.
News came from Evin prison that Kamangar was
beaten and together with all his belongings,
taken out of his cell the night before
- as jailors taunted him with the “promise” of becoming a martyr soon.
Early morning, those
activists who had gone to the
vicinity of Evin prison, came back with
the news that the planned executions for all were carried through. Nine
men and a woman were executed .. and
so we thought that Farzad too had … had perhaps…
And so for a number of
hours, those of us who cared, died a little , while
those in power toyed with us.
His mother waited for news,
as did his lawyer , his place of birth and all of us
over the earth who knew and cared,
waited along. We knew from experience that Farzad
could be alive and the authorities may be only playing with our nerves as often
before …but we also knew that anything was possible.
No government source
confirmed that Farzad had been executed. No
government source denied it. And we waited, dying a little more.
Only mid-afternoon Tehran time , did
we learn that Farzad had been returned to section
209, and that he had been allowed to talk per telephone to his family.
And only then , were we
able to concentrate on the pain of the woman who had been executed along with 9
other men that morning; 37 year old Fatemeh Haghighat Pajoh, who had killed
her second husband in order to prevent
him from raping her daughter . Hanged after suffering many years in jail and two previous near executions. Gone, leaving her two
daughters to suffer what is left of all their pain , at the hand of “law”.
And if my tone seems calm
and emotionless… what do you expect from someone who has just come back to life , after having died a little yesterday.
Shiva
A Letter from Farzad
Kamangar, a Political Prisoner in Iran
http://canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/29232.shtml
IRAN Farzad Kamangar
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE13/075/2008/en/bec5a581-2e78-11dd-a024-1d23853b0ef1/mde130752008eng.html
Fatemeh Haghighat Pajoh
http://ardeshird.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
