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State television quoted the Chief Justice of the Fars province, Kazema Mousavi, as saying that Navid Afkari, who had been convicted of Hassan Turkman’s murder, had been executed in Shiraz prison on Saturday morning.
The 27-year-old athlete received much harsher punishments for “participation in an illegal organization, conspiracy to commit crimes against national security and insulting a revolutionary leader.”
The man who participated in the 2018 demonstrations was also charged with the murder of a security officer.
Iran’s Supreme Court found the athlete guilty, but human rights organizations claim his confession was obtained by force.
The fighter even received support and a request to revoke the sentence of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who appealed to Tehran to save the athlete’s life.
“To the Iranian leaders: I would be very grateful if you would save the life of this young man and not carry out his death sentence,” he wrote on Twitter.
N. Afkari’s case was the subject of a campaign on social media. During it, he and his brothers were portrayed as victims of their participation in the 2018 protests against Iran’s Shiite theocracy. Officials blamed Afkari for stabbing a water company in Shiraz during the unrest.
Iranian television showed Afkari’s confession last week. The report recalled hundreds of other suspicious forced confessions over the past decade.
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