Despite outcries from the international community, including U.S. President Donald Trump, the International Olympic Committee, and UFC President Dana White, the Iranian regime has executed champion wrestler Navid Afkari.
Afkari, 27, was executed on Saturday, September 12 “after legal procedures were carried out at the insistence of the parents and the family of the victim”, the Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Kazem Mousavi, the head of the justice department in the southern Fars province as saying (h/t The Guardian).
Afkari was sentenced to death for his alleged role killing a security officer in Shiraz, Fars Province during summer 2018 protests in the province.