Just a few months after Navid Afkari was executed by the Iranian regime on fabricated charges, the Greco-Roman wrestling champion’s family have also been arrested.
According to reports emerging from Iran, Afkari’s father and brother were arrested by Iranian intelligence agents while “cleaning the area around Navid’s grave.” The two men were arrested on December 17 and have been taken to an undisclosed location.
“The family had not been allowed to visit the cemetery or care for the headstone and the area around the grave,” IranWire reported. “But the father and son had gone to the cemetery to tidy the unkempt area around the grave, which had not been prepared for the tombstone to be positioned.