A BOXING champion has been sentenced to dying for “protesting” in Iran’s chilling execution spree.
Mohammad Javad, 26, has been sentenced to dying over his protests in November 2019 in opposition to his nation’s financial corruption.
His dying sentence, reported by the Jerusalem Submit, follows the execution of champion wrestler Navid Afkari, 27, who was hanged in Shiraz in September 2020.
Afkari was accused of killing a state safety guard in the course of the anti-government protests in the summertime of 2018.
Based on the Human Rights Activists Information Company (HRANA), Navid and his brother Vahid Afkari had been severely tortured to offer confessions.
Journalist and activist Masih Alinejad who launched the #United4Navid motion
She tweeted on Saturday: “Dying sentence for one more athlete in Iran for the crime of protesting in Nov 2019.
“Mohammad Javad, 26, is a boxing champion. They sentenced him to dying for ‘spreading corruption on Earth’.
“We couldn’t save Navid Afkari Iranian wrestler. World athletes could assist us this time.”
She added: “Earlier than being executed Navid Afkari stated: ‘Islamic Republic is in search of a neck to tie a noose round.’
“This time Mohammad Javad Vafaei is going through execution for the crime of becoming a member of Iran nationwide protests.
We Iranians name on world athletes to be his voice.#UnitedforNavid.”
Consultants have famous the cost of “spreading corruption of Earth” is steadily used in opposition to protestors so as to take away any opposition to the regime’s Supreme Chief, Ali Khamenei.
After Afkari’s dying, two extra athletes have been executed.
30-year-old boxer Ali Mutairi was reportedly severely tortured in Sheiban Jail which led to his false confession that he had killed two Basij militia members in 2018.
Champion wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini was additionally executed final yr.
Figures present Iran carries out round 250 executions a yr, along with a 100 executions of kids every year.
The nation’s barbaric system of punishments consists of hanginging from cranes in public, use of horrific electrical shocks and flogging.