I am the red cry of liberation.
Sing my name, mother, in the eastern sky.
I am the bloody flag of freedom.
Sing my name, my wife, in the eastern sky.
I am the Red Dawn of Liberation.
I am a prisoner, under the eternal soil of Khavaran.
Sing, O heroic people, my name in the eastern sky.
We remember and will not forget that bloody decade and that great human crime that poured a river of blood from prison into society. What we did not want was for our sons and daughters to be killed by the thousands and for our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children to be mourned in city after city and house after house.
To tell you this secret hidden in the heart of history, that the revolution was not meant to be, that a handful of oppressors and tyrants would take over the helm of society, drag the country into regression, kill thousands of men and women who watered the roots of the revolution, and commit the most heinous massacre in Iranian history in prison. But these people had come for this very reason: to change the course of the revolution, to capture and kill it, and to destroy and destroy all the good things that the people did for that revolution.
In the nearly fourteen decades since the shameful rule of the Islamic Republic, Iranian society has gone through difficult circumstances and very bitter events, and the justice movement has also lost a number of militant mothers who were the foundations of this movement. In these years, we have witnessed the rise of fathers and mothers who never agreed to forgive the perpetrators of this horrific crime. We, too, continue on our path, determined to stand by our covenant with our comrades who took the lead. We will never, even for a moment, stop fighting against the integrity of the Islamic Republic and fighting to build a new society free from prison, torture, execution, and class oppression.
The criminal and reactionary Islamic Republic executed three young Kurds, Ramin Hossein Panahi, Loghman, and Zaniar Moradi, in the early hours of Saturday, September 8, 2018, in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) prison in Karaj. The criminals want to cover up their fear of the coming uprising of the people by killing our children and create fear and terror among the people.
We honor the memory of these three young men who lost their lives and salute their grieving mothers and fathers for their resistance and steadfastness in the face of the injustice they have suffered.
Ramin Hossein Panahi’s mother and sister announced in a video that they had seen Ramin in Behesht Zahra in Tehran with the same sewn-up lip and a rope around his neck. The government criminals did not allow their son’s body to be taken to Kurdistan.
The criminals of the Islamic Republic tortured and harassed Ramin’s mother and sister by showing them this scene. Down with the Islamic Republic regime and all its factions. Let’s return us to Kurdistan….
Down with the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran!
We will begin the 25th gathering on the killing of political prisoners in Iran with a minute of applause in remembrance and in honor of the thousands of fighting men and women who died in prisons and during the struggle in the 1960s and before and after. Next, our artist comrade Fariborz Fakhari will play pieces on the soprano saxophone, and comrade Shirin Mehrbod will perform two songs.
In the second part of the program, five political prisoners from the 1960s; Ahmad Mousavi, Mersedeh Ghandi, Reza Pourkarimi, Fatan Jokar, and Hamid Haghshenas, will discuss and examine the structure and destructive role of the Islamic Republic’s penitentiary system in prison in a roundtable discussion, and will present an objective picture of the role of penitents in strengthening this system.
Between the second and third parts of the program, we will have a fifteen-minute break for tea, coffee, and dinner.
The third part of the program will begin with our comrade Fariborz playing a short piece.
In the next episode of the program, Reza Kazemzadeh will discuss “Trauma, Memory, and Collective Identity,” and Asad Seif will examine the image of the penitent in foreign fiction.
We will continue the program with a pleasant voice and sweet legend.
Now, let us remember and applaud for a minute in honor of the thousands of fighting men and women who were imprisoned in Iranian prisons, their fighting and suffering mothers and fathers who are no longer with us, and also in honor of the mothers of the East, the mothers and fathers who, despite all the hardships and old age, have still kept the banner of justice high in Iran.