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The 27-year-old, sentenced to death on charges of killing a public official during the 2018 demonstrations, was hanged in a Shiraz prison. The numerous appeals from around the world to save the young fighter’s life were to no avail. The IOC said it was “shocked.” Pompeo: “Fierce and cruel act”
Iran has announced that 27-year-old fighter Navid Afkari, sentenced to death accused of killing a public official in one of the 2018 protests, was executed.
Death by hanging
The young man was hanged on September 12 in a prison in Shiraz, as confirmed by the head of the Department of Justice of the province of Fars, Kazem Mousavi, cited by Irna, who added that Navid’s brothers, Vahid and Habib, will turn 54 and 54 years respectively. 27 years in prison. The three brothers had reported having suffered torture in prison. The death sentence was issued on the basis of a confession that the man later retracted because he was extorted through torture, said his lawyer Hassan Younesi. In recent days, a social campaign had tried to mobilize to call for a review of Navid’s death penalty.
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News of the execution shocked the sports world. The International Olympic Committee said it was “shocked” by the hanging of the young Iranian fighter. The president, Thomas Bach, informs the IOC, had made “personal appeals to the supreme leader and the Iranian president and requested clemency for Afkari, with regard to the sovereignty of Iran.” “It is deeply shocking that the demands of athletes around the world and all the behind-the-scenes work of the IOC, together with the Iranian Olympic Committee, United World Wrestling and the National Federation of Wrestling of Iran have not reached the desired goal – continues a note from the Olympic Committee – our thoughts are with Navid Afkari’s family and friends. “
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Even US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented on Twitter about the execution of the Iranian fighter saying that “it is a fierce and cruel act. We condemn it in the strongest terms. It is an ignoble attack on human dignity, even for the despicable standards of this regime. The voices of the Iranian people will not be silenced. “
The Afkari Affair
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The fighter was hanged in Shiraz. Right there, the place where he was born in the southwest of the Islamic Republic, on August 2, 2018 Navid had participated in a demonstration against expensive gasoline and the government’s political repression. Based on the law of ‘qisas’ (the principle of ‘revenge’), the death sentence was passed following a confession that Afkari later retracted and alleged videos showing the murder of government official Hassan Turkman by the fighter . Videos that according to his lawyer, Hassan Younesi, do not exist. The mother of the three children reported that the brothers were forced to testify against each other. Under the retaliation law, Navid could only have been saved if the official’s family forgave him and allowed him to pay them financially. But this did not happen. The many calls from around the world to save the young fighter’s life were of no avail. From the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who had apologized for Navid (“his only fault is to have protested in the street against the government”), to the World Players Association, who had asked for the expulsion of Iran from competitions international sports if he had served the sentence.
