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Authorities in Iran executed 27-year-old fighter Navid Afkari this morning on murder charges during protests against the country’s Shiite theocratic regime in 2018, Iranian state television reported, cited by the Associated Press.
The convict was executed in Adelabad Prison in the city of Shiraz. Afkari’s case drew attention on social media, where he and his brothers were portrayed as victims attacked for participating in protests two years ago. Authorities accused the fighter of stabbing and killing a security guard at a water utility in Shiraz during riots in the city.
Last week, television broadcast his confessions about the act. Similarly, these public confessions have been violently extracted in hundreds of similar cases in recent years in the Islamic Republic, AP notes.
A campaign has been launched in the country and around the world to suspend the execution of the sentence against Afkari. He was also backed by Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer who is also in prison and has been on a hunger strike for almost a month over the conditions at Evin prison in Tehran.
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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