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Iran’s regime sentences boxer to death for his peaceful protest vs.
corruption. By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL - 6h ago.

The clerical regime in Iran is continuing its execution spree of
athletes, targeting the boxing champion Mohammad Javad for
protesting
the theocratic state’s economic corruption in November, 2019.

The journalist and women’s rights campaigner Masih Alinejad tweeted
on
Saturday: “Death 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
death
for ‘spreading corruption on Earth’. We couldn’t save Navid Afkari
Iranian wrestler. Global athletes may help us this time.”

Iranian human rights experts have noted that the charge of
"spreading
corruption of Earth" is frequently used against protestors and
dissidents in the Islamic Republic to purge the country of any
resistance against the policies of the regime's Supreme Leader, Ali
Khamenei.

The micro-blog Twitter was abuzz with tweets from Iranian-Americans
demanding that Javar not be executed.

Iran’s rulers hanged the champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari
in
2020 for his peaceful protest against the regime’s economic and
political mismanagement in 2018. Afkari’s name is now synonymous
with
the Islamic Republic’s persecution of its athletes for their
protests
against the worsening economic situation in the country and the
lack of
civil liberties for Iranians.

Alinejad wrote “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.
#UnitedforNavid.”

United for Navid is an organization for Iranian athletes who aim to
secure justice for Afkari and highlight the Islamic Republic’s bias
against women athletes and sports corruption within the
regime-controlled sports entities.

United for Navid called on USA Wrestling’s Rich Bender to pull the
plug
on a slated February dual meet with Iran’s regime in Texas because
the
head of Iran’s Wrestling Federation, Alireza Dabir, urged “Death to
America” with violence in a January television interview.

Sardar Pashaei , the former head coach of Iran’s Greco-Roman
wrestling
team and manager of the United for Navid campaign, tweeted:
“Another
athlete in danger of execution!"

"The Islamic Republic wants to execute another athlete who took
part in
the street protests. #Mohammad_Javad_Vafaei is only 26 years old,
an
athlete and boxing coach. Please be the voice of this innocent
athlete."

Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-American human rights activist,
tweeted,
"Please help us #SaveMohammadJavad. He is one of the protesters of
November 2019 mass protests in Iran against the fuel price
increase. He
was sentenced to death with bogus charges of destroying public
property,
charges that he denies."

The Jerusalem Post reported in January 2021 that the UN condemned
the
execution of the champion Iranian boxer Mutairi in Sheiban Prison,
located in Khuzestan Province. Mutairi, 30, endured severe torture,
which led to his false confession that he had killed two Basij
militia
members in 2018, activists and family members said.