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After his execution, Iranian fighter Navid Afkari was buried under tight security on Sunday night. This is what human rights activist Mehdi Mahmoudian and a friend of the Afkaris family wrote On twitter. According to Mahmoudian, Afkari was buried in a village in the Fars province in southern Iran. His family were not allowed to attend the funeral.
Afkari, 27, was executed on Saturday despite international protests. According to the Iranian judiciary, Afkari had killed a security officer during a demonstration in Shiraz in 2018. He was said to have confessed. The athlete, his family and human rights organizations alleged that the confession was obtained through torture.
Even a wave of domestic and foreign solidarity could not induce Iran to rethink. The international sports association “Global Athlete” has now called for global sports sanctions on Iran. The International Olympic Committee and the World Wrestling Federation would have to ban Iran from the international sports scene because of this “heinous execution,” it said in a statement.
“It is time for actions instead of words”, CEO Rob Koehler wrote about it. The former deputy director of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) also blamed the sponsors of world sport. They would have to hold the IOC responsible for their investments, “otherwise they are accomplices.”
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