Boxing champion, 26, sentenced to d*ath in Iran during sickening execution spree
Wrestler Navid Afkari, seen on a protestor’s placard, was the first of many Iranian athletes to be executed (Image: ALEXANDER BECHER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
An Iranian boxing champion, 26-year-old Mohammad Javad, has been sentenced to de*th by his country’s regime after he protested against the ‘economic corruption’ in his homeland in November 2019
According to report by The Jerusalem Post.
It comes after fellow sports champion, Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari, was hanged in September 2020 following comments he made against the regime’s ‘economic and political mismanagement’ in 2018.
Afkari’s execution prompted Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad to launch the #United4Navid movement, and she is now campaigning to help save Javad’s life.
Alinejad tweeted: “D*ath sentence for another athlete in Iran for the crime of protesting in Nov 2019.
“Mohammad Javad, 26, is a boxing champion. They sentenced him to d*ath for ‘spreading corruption on Earth’.
“We couldn’t save Navid Afkari Iranian wrestler. Global athletes may help us this time.”
She continued: “Before being executed Navid Afkari said: ‘Islamic Republic is looking for a neck to tie a noose around’.
“This time Mohammad Javad Vafaei is facing execution for the crime of joining Iran nationwide protests.
“We Iranians call on global athletes to be his voice.”
It’s claimed the charge of “spreading corruption of Earth” is frequently used against protestors in order to remove any opposition to Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, Ali Khamenei.
A supporter of the National Council of Resistance Iran (NWRI) and the Iranian Exile Society in Berlin holds a placard with the picture of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari, while protesting against his execution at the Iranian embassy in Berlin, Germany, 12 September 2020
Wrestler Navid Afkari, seen on a protestor’s placard, was the first of many Iranian athletes to be executed
Wrestler Akfari was said to have been accused and convicted of murdering a security guard during the 2018 Iranian protests.
After his d*ath, a further two athletes were murdered including another champion boxer named Ali Mutairi.
Mutairi, 30, was reportedly severely tortured, which led him to falsely confess that he killed two Iranian militia members in 2018.
A second champion wrestler, Mehdi Ali Hosseini, was also executed by the country’s regime in early 2021.
culled: Dailystar
