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Despite international pressure: Iran executed wrestling champion

Naveid Afkri, 27, was convicted of killing a security guard during demonstrations against the regime, but human rights groups said the confession was extracted from him under torture.

Despite calls, which Trump also joined, to spare his life, he was executed

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Saturday, 12 September 2020, 12:14

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Iranian wrestling champion Nevid Afri, who was convicted of murder during demonstrations against the regime, has been executed, the country's official media reported today (Saturday).

This is despite international and local pressure on the authorities to stop the proceedings against Afkari, 27, who was convicted of stabbing a security guard to death in 2018.

The head of the justice department in the southern Iranian province of Fares said Afri was released this morning after "insistence from the parents and the victim's family."

International wrestling figures and political activists have called for Afri's life to be spared, including US President Donald Trump.

"I would greatly appreciate it if you could save this young man's life, and not execute him," he tweeted last week.

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His brothers were also arrested.

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According to human rights activists in Iran, the wrestler's two brothers were sentenced to 54 and 27 years in prison for the same case.

The brothers' lawyer, Hassan Yunsey, said that contrary to news reports in the country, the moment the security guard was killed was not recorded on video.

He added that the photographs that served as evidence in the case were taken about an hour before the incident took place.

In 2018, many demonstrations broke out across Iran in protest of the country’s economic distress and political repression.

More demonstrations of a similar scale erupted late last year, in protest of rising fuel prices.

According to Amnesty International, more than 7,000 people, including ten-year-olds, were arrested following the protest.

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