The death sentence of Navid Afkari, a prisoner deprived of the right to a fair trial, was carried out
Human Rights in Iran – The Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari has been executed after being convicted of stabbing to death a security guard during anti-government protests in 2018, state media said on Saturday.
According to Human Rights in Iran, Navid Afkari was executed “this morning after legal procedures were carried out at the insistence of the parents and the family of the victim”, the media quoted the head of the justice department in the southern Fars province as saying.
The case had attracted international outcry. Afkari had said he was tortured into making a false confession, according to his family and activists, and his attorney said there was no proof of his guilt.
Iran’s judiciary has denied the torture claims.
A global union representing 85,000 athletes called on Tuesday for Iran’s expulsion from world sport if it executed Afkari.
According to the annual report by Amnesty International in 2019, the Iranian government executed at least 251 people. At least 4 of those executed were under the age of 18 at the time of crime. However due to the lack of transparency of the authorities, it is difficult to find out the actual number of executions in this country and it may be much higher than the announced figures.
Considering the International Instrument of Human Rights and also the Article 5 in Universal Declaration of Human Rights, no one should be treated in a manner that causes their degradation and humiliation.
On February 18, 2020, Amnesty International released a report describing human rights abuses in Iran, in which issued a report on the issuance and enforcement of death sentences: International human rights law allows acts involving same-sex sexual intercourse with reciprocal consent and extramarital sex; muharebeh (enmity against God), spreading corruption on earth, insulting Mohammed the prophet and fighting against Islamic State are crime titles punishment of which is execution and hanging while there is no vague definition for them, yet.
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