Navid sent many messages from prison saying he was tortured into confessing to crimes he did not commit. However, Iran executes political prisoner Navid Afkari despite an international outcry. Posted on 09/13/2020 7:36:36 AM PDT by hassan.mahmoud
Navid Afkari, a 27-year old political prisoner who took part in protests back in August 2018, was executed early Saturday morning, despite a global campaign calling on Iran to revoke his death sentence.
Navid’s lawyer, Hassan Younesi said that his parents were not allowed the last visit with their son.
“You were in such a hurry to execute him that you deprived Navid of his last visit?” he tweeted addressing the regime.
Finally, the authorities handed over the Navid’s corp to his family but upon the condition of not having any ceremony for him. 
Authorities had imposed severe restrictions on the family for Navid’s burial, including a strict ban on any ceremonies. No family was allowed to have a mobile phone at the burial.
The grave was prepared beforehand and the burial was carried out swiftly to prevent any gathering at the scene. Dozens of security and intelligence agents were present during the burial to prevent any possible gathering that may spark anti-regime protests.
Iranians in exile protesting today's execution of Navid Afkari by the despotic regime ruling Iran and the direct order of the supreme leader Khamenei. They said All negotiations with appeasement vis-a-vis the mullahs must come to an immediate end.
It is high time for the world to end its appeasement and stand alongside the Iranian people.
They announce in their statement that The UN’s silence over crimes against humanity such as the 1988 Massacre has allowed Iran's authorities to act with impunity. “Today they hanged wrestling champion Navid Afkari for taking part in Iran Protests.
How many more protesters will be executed before the world speaks out?” They added one of the demonstrators said: “Navid Akari will never be forgotten.
They killed his body, but his soul and spirit live in each and every human being across this globe that yearns and strives for freedom.
They can't kill us all. History has proven that all dictators fall eventually “.
Many distinguished international personalities condemn Navid execution.
Richard Golberg US National Security Advisor tweeted: In the wake of Navid Afkari’s murder, Council on Foreign Relations and any other US institutions planning virtual events with Iran’s foreign minister @Jzarif should cancel them immediately. (CFR event currently scheduled for 9/21)
Background.
Last week, Navid and his two brothers, Habib and Vahid were transferred to a high-security prison section in Shiraz’s Adel Abad Prison and were cut off from the world. The Afkari brothers were taken to the “Guidance” Section, notorious for its horrid conditions, lack of minimum facilities, and reports of suicides, rapes, and murders.
Navid Afkari was sentenced to two executions, prison, and lashes while two of his brothers were sentenced to overall 81 years of prison and lashes for their participation in nationwide protests in August 2018.
Navid’s letters and voice messages from prison, stressing that he was tortured to make false confessions, led to a global campaign for the termination of his death sentence. In a short message, Navid sent a message:” I only protested. They pulled a plastic bag over my head, beat my hands, stomach, and feet. I nearly suffocated. They tied me, poured alcohol in my nose. I volunteered to donate my organs after my death. I’m a wrestling champion.
Tragic news on yet another protester’s death at the hands of Iranian politics.
Thank you for this update.
He confessed to something that should not be a crime. I’m sure ANTIFA is headed their right now.
DK
No doubt there will be another democommie ad pointing out that this is just another example of PDJT and his failure at international negotiations.
The Iranian version of waterboarding.
I suspect that it is even more painful and unpleasant.
Not worth war.
“Despite international outcry”
Do you believe that international outcries should be relevant to sentences in the United States?
And this is the kind of crap we can look forward to with a Hiden/Heels-Up admin. Not that we’re experiencing a form thereof currently.
Do you believe any other country’s name should be allowed to be spoken in the United States?
What the **** does that have to do with anything? Who on this board said go to war? You make some really..well..unique comments sometimes.
you made me one of the few people on this board who thinks less before posting than I do
The poor kids dead and his parents are suffering. Nobody said anything about going to war
Navid Afkari like Sophie Scholl have given their lives in opposition to an evil regime bent on destroying the world. The very thought of this evil regime getting nuclear weapons should shake us all. Thanks to Obama, Kerry and Hillary’s appeasements Iran is closer than ever to having nuclear arms
Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari was executed on Saturday after being convicted of stabbing a security guard to death during anti-government protests in 2018, state media said, in a case that has sparked international outcry.
I am more interested in the torture, imprisonment, and extradition of Julian Assange which my US Government has orchestrated.
President Trump posted a tweet asking for mercy for Afkari.
Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency dismissed Trump’s tweet in a feature story Friday, saying that American sanctions have hurt Iranian hospitals amid the pandemic.
“Trump is worried about the life of a murderer while he puts many Iranian patients’ lives in danger by imposing severe sanctions,” the agency said.
I think that statement is true. US sanctions against countries equal more deaths of innocent people than Iran’s execution of Afkari.
dp u r funny. The best thing I can do for the citizens of Iran is to keep from becoming one of them. Teachable moment.
“Do you believe any other country’s name should be allowed to be spoken in the United States?“
Well, sure I do, but the fact that other countries suck I take as a given, it doesn’t make example #10,000,000 a news story.
We have the freedom to hear of people and governments having problems with other countries.
So, “yes,” I believe this is relevant to have as a part of sentences in the United States. If you don’t, you share a lot with governments like China that prohibit speech about other countries.
“Navid Afkari like Sophie Scholl have given their lives in opposition to an evil regime bent on destroying the world“
You have a ways to go to convince me the Persians are “bent on destroying the world”.
And the United States has more than sufficient combat power to answer any Iranian attempts at destroying OUR part of the world.
I acknowledge that the regime is intent on destroying Israel, but that’s not the world, and the premise of Israel’s survival has to do with the Lord, not with the USA.
The Trump Administration spoke to this today:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1305210852690112512
That is what the snowflakes want to inflict on them and us as soon as they can.
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