There is an uprising after one of Iran’s most prominent wrestlers, Navid Afkari, was sentenced to death for murder.
Afkari was going according to plan executed on Wednesday. No information has emerged as to whether this has been implemented or not.
Several Iranian organizations, as well as organizations such as the IOC and US President Donald Trump, have put pressure on Iran to pardon Afkari.
Now they get answers from a spokesperson in the Iranian judiciary, writes the news agency YJC.
– Afkari’s punishment is no execution. It’s revenge. The essence is the same, but there are two different things legally since he killed a person, says the spokesman for YJC.
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Chairman of the World Players Association, Brendan Schwab, is also involved in the case. The organization represents as many as 85,000 athletes. He states that he is “terribly afraid” that an execution could happen at any time.
– The clock literally shows one minute at midnight, Schwab says CBS.
In 2018, Afkari participated in a demonstration in Tehran, Iran. As one of several hundred, he demonstrated against the economic situation in the country.
In retrospect, both Afkari and his two brothers were convicted on a number of counts. Afkari was sentenced to death for murder. The brothers received prison sentences of 27 and 54 years.
The wrestler, with several national medals, has confessed to the murder. But according to Human Rights Activists News Agency, Afkari has written in a letter to the organization, that he confessed to the murder of a security guard, but that it happened after about 50 days of physical and mental torture.
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