Bones of long missing wrestler found in mountains of Shiraz
The test results of human bones found at Mount Deraak in Shiraz, was announced today, October 14, 2022. It has ...
Read moreDetailsIranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari was executed at dawn on September 12, 2020, despite a mockery of a trial and national and international outrage over his death sentence.
Navid Afkari was arrested during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018 and was accused of murdering a security guard during the protests in the southern city of Shiraz.
His two brothers, Vahid and Habib Afkari were also arrested for taking part in 2018 protests.
They were convicted of “enmity against God” and participation in anti-state street protests. Habib has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison and Vahid to 25 years in prison. Both have also been sentenced to 74 lashes.
The three brothers were tortured to make confessions against each other.
The test results of human bones found at Mount Deraak in Shiraz, was announced today, October 14, 2022. It has ...
Read moreDetailsSaeed Afkari, the outspoken brother to executed protester and wrestling champion Navid Afkari wrote his brother Vahid was attacked in ...
Read moreDetailsSaeed Afkari, the outspoken brother to executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari, was beaten and arrested by security forces in Shiraz ...
Read moreDetailsSupreme Court turns down Vahid Afkari’s appeal to re-examine his case. Branch 38 of the clerical regime’s Supreme Court turned ...
Read moreDetailsThe brother of executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari said his sister's phone was confiscated by intelligence agents. Just hours later ...
Read moreDetailsPlainclothes agents beat and brutalized the Afkari family when they gathered Sunday outside the Adelabad prison in Shiraz to protest ...
Read moreDetailsAmnesty International has issued a call for global pressure on the Iranian authorities, including the head of the judiciary, to ...
Read moreDetailsIranian authorities have threatened political prisoner Vahid Afkari, brother to executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari, that if he does not ...
Read moreDetailsMore than seven months after the execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari in September 2020, his two brothers Habib and ...
Read moreDetailsFive months after the execution of wrestling champion and protester Navid Afkari, concerns have raised about the situation of his ...
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