The organization published a post late Monday evening, calling for the execution to be reversed.
– Fifpro is shocked and outraged by reports that professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani faces execution in Iran for fighting for women’s rights and fundamental freedoms in his country. We stand in solidarity with Amir and demand that his conviction be reversed immediately, they sign Chirping.
Fifpro represents 65,000 players worldwide.
According to Amnesty International Nasr-Azadani is one of six people on trial or on trial on charges carrying the death penalty.
Several protesters have already been executed in the country recently and many are awaiting the death penalty. 23-year-old activist Mohsen Shekari was executed on Thursday last week and authorities confirmed it this week yet another person linked to the demonstrations was executed.
He has been arrested
Nasr-Azadani isn’t the only footballer who has come under the spotlight of the authorities recently.
In late November, several media outlets including Iran International reported that the Iranian footballer Voria Ghafouri was arrested in Iran.
RELEASED: The same day Iran faced the United States at the World Cup, Iran announced that Ghafouri had been released.
Photo: – / AFP
According to the authorities, the reason was that he had “insulted the national football team and made propaganda against the government”.
Ghafouri has previously played for the Iranian national team, but did not make the squad for the World Cup in Qatar.
But there were also protests: while fans chose to bow as the national anthem played, Iranian players chose not to sing along before the opening match against England at the World Cup.
When they remained silent, Iranian state television chose to censor the images, according to Iran International.
However, there was chanting throughout the championship, which many Iranian fans were not satisfied with. Several experts also believed that it was not free will.
– I think they were driven to sing. There were some who tried to barely move their lips, Norwegian sociologist and media Sharam Alghasi told NRK at the time.
– They must have been exposed to pressure. When they didn’t sing, it was an insult to the Iranian regime that sent them there, said former NRK Middle East correspondent Sidsel Wold.
