Sami Rahman Park is a green area in Arbil, Kurdistan, northern Iraq. The park is several hectares in size and contains a lake, rose garden and the Martyrs Monument as well as a restaurant and market. The site was formerly the location of a detention centre of Saddam Hussain's regime.[1] It is named after Sami Abdul Rahman, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government[2] who was killed in a suicide bombing on 1 February 2004, aged 71.The park was the location for the First Erbil Freedom Day Community Run on 9 April 2007[3] organised by the Salah Rahman Sports Foundation, which has since become an annual event.