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Iran HR- UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the summary execution of champion wrestler Navid Afkari in Iran, raising alarm at the latest execution in a series of death penalty sentences handed down in the context of protests in 2018 and 2019. “It is deeply disturbing that the authorities appear to have used the death penalty against an athlete …

VOA – Iran’s Saturday execution of a wrestler who said he was tortured into a murder confession happened without advance warning to relatives, lawyers and even the wrestler himself, according to a knowledgeable source.   The source who is close to the family of wrestler Navid Afkari Sangari told VOA Persian in a Sunday interview that Afkari’s family and lawyers were given no …

RFL/RE – Tehran has warned Washington against making a “strategic mistake” after U.S. President Donald Trump said that any attack by Iran would be met with a far greater response, in reaction to a news report said that Iran planned to assassinate a U.S. diplomat to avenge the killing of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in January. Any “new strategic …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Iran Human Rights calls for the establishment of an independent international fact-finding mission under the supervision of the United Nations to investigate the detention, torture, execution and judicial process of sentencing Navid Afkari to death. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of IHR, said: “The unfair judicial process, extracting false confessions under torture, the harassment of Navid’s family, and …

Al-Monitor – Iranian activists have condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for the execution of Navid Afkari, who was recently sentenced to death for the killing of a government official. Afkari’s mother released a video shortly after his sentence saying that Afkari and his two brothers, who also received long sentences, were tortured into confessions during their imprisonment. Afkari had …