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The sentence was carried out this Saturday morning in Shiraz prison.
Iran said on Saturday it had executed a young Iranian fighter, Navid Afkari, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a public official during “riots” in 2018, according to the website of state television.
The sentence was carried out this morning in Shiraz Prison, Fars Province Attorney General Kazem Mousavi announced on state television.
The humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch, the Olympic Committee and FIFA have joined today in support of the Iranian fighter arrested in September 2018 on dozens of charges, including participation in illegal demonstrations, insults to the supreme leader of Iran, theft, enmity towards God and murder.
The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, said he was “extremely concerned” by the case, and the International Football Federation (FIFA) called for the life of athlete Navid Afkari to be saved.
On October 15, 2019, the Shiraz Criminal Court sentenced Afkari, 27, a professional Iranian national runner-up, to the death penalty for the alleged murder of Hasan Turkeman, a law enforcement officer, during the August protests. 2018 in Shiraz. The court sentenced Vahid to 25 years for allegedly helping with the murder.
On April 25, 2020, Section 32 of the Supreme Court upheld the sentence and the court dismissed the torture charge, citing a statement by Navid, in the presence of a lawyer, that he had not been tortured and did not need to be seen by a doctor.
However, on September 13, 2019, in a handwritten letter, Navid detailed the torture he claims to have suffered in two detention centers in Shiraz, including hitting his legs, hands and abdomen with a stick, spilling alcohol on his nose and cover your head. with a plastic bag to the point of suffocation.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that Section 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court also sentenced Navid Afkari to death on charges of “enmity against God” and two years in prison for insulting the Iranian Supreme Leader.
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