Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari executed over 2018 security guard killing

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Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari executed over 2018 security guard killing​

By Reuters Staff

(Reuters) - Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari was executed on Saturday after being convicted of stabbing a security guard to death during anti-government protests in 2018, state media said, in a case that has sparked international outcry.

Afkari was executed “this morning after legal procedures were carried out at the insistence of the parents and the family of the victim,” the media quoted the head of the justice department in southern Fars province, Kazem Mousavi, as saying.

Afkari was convicted of killing Hassan Turkman, a water company security guard, and other charges. Iran’s Supreme Court rejected a review of the case in late August, according to state media.

There was a bit international campaign not to execute him. So people would say he did not do what he is accused of.

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#BREAKING
Navid Afkari, a 27-year old political prisoner, was executed early Saturday morning, despite a global campaign calling on #Iran to revoke his death sentence.

Navid sent many message from prison saying he was tortured into confessing to crimes he did not commit.

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1/ Our hearts are broken. Islamic Republic murdered #NavidAfkari, an innocent man for the crime of protesting. When I talked to his mother, she had hope the world could save his son. He was a wrestler. Our demand is for the world to ban Islamic Republic from international sports.

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She is on TV sometimes as an expert on Iran.