When the Islamic Revolution and the Ayatollah rose to power the first thing he created was a constitution. In this constitution he clearly prohibits any acts of discrimination of minority groups. In Iran today minority groups such as Kurds and Afghans suffer from discrimination. The Afghans and Kurds treat Iran as many other immigrants treat America a way of having opportunities and to escape the political situations of their countries. The tragedy to this is when they come to Iran they are treated like slaves. Their oppertunities are very limited, finding a job is not easy and they are denied the right to be educated. Ehsan Fattahian was a bright thinker a man a Kurd himself he envisioned a brighter day for his people. A day were minorties in Iran would have equal rights. 

 

   Ehsan made so much noise in the political community for his fellow Kurds that this woke up the Iranian government and they decided to arrest him. When he was arrested he went through painful sessions of torture. He would later be sentenced to 10 years in exile. This angered Ehsan and he decided to appeal the ruling which caused the Iranian government to claim he was an “enemy of god” and his exile ruling turned into the death penalty. Throughout his time on death row other politically active Kurds bravely wrote articles of Ehsan’s story to let people. Groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and several Iranian human rights organizations issued statements calling to stop the execution. The online community had 10,000 electronic signatures to ask the Iranian government to stop this at once however the tragic show went on and Ehsan was executed. 

 

  During the Saddam Hussein era he was infamous for murdering thousands of Kurds which ultimately lead to his execution. The Islamic Republic is doing the exact thing they are executing Kurds to strike fear to their community and prevent them from rising. Again this contradicts the constitution which does not allow people to be discriminated against. Ehsan goes down with bravery and opens the doors to other Kurds to step up to government tyranny. Death is not fearful anymore, death just inspires more martyrs.