Iran's state TV is reporting that the country's authorities have hanged a wrestler for allegedly killing a man after he was asked’ to save the life of a man who condemned President Donald Trump's 27-year-old death. Has given
State TV quoted Chief Justice of Fars
Province Kazem Mousavi as saying on Saturday: "Revenge against Naveed
Afkari, the killer of Hassan Turkmen, was carried out this morning in Adelabad
prison in Shiraz."
The African affair drew the attention of a
social media campaign in which he and his brothers were photographed’ taking
part in protests against Iran's Shiite insurgency in 2018. .
Iran broadcast the wrestler's confession
on television last week. This group bears a resemblance to hundreds of other
suspected coerced confessions in the Islamic Republic over the past decade.
The case revived a domestic demand for
Iran to suspend executions. Even Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh,
herself went on a hunger strike in Tehran's Evin prison for nearly a month on
conditions amid the coronavirus epidemic, a word she admitted to supporting the
idea. Is.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump took to
twitter to express his concern over the issue.
Trump wrote last week, "For Iran's
leaders, I applaud you if you save this young man's life and don't hang
him." "Thanks!"
Iran responded to Tim's tweet with an
11-minute state-run TV package. It included the weeping parents of slain water
company employee Hassan Turkaman. The package also included footage of Afkari’s on the
back of a motorcycle, which allegedly stabbed Turkaman in the back, without
explaining why he carried out the attack.
The state-run television showed vague
police documents and called the killing a "personal dispute" without
elaborating. He said Afkari’s cell phone was in the area and showed him
surveillance footage while walking down a street talking on his phone.
In addition, Iran's semi-official Tasnim
news agency rejected Trump's tweet in a feature story, saying that US sanctions
have hurt Iranian hospitals amid epidemics.
"Trump is worried about the life of a
murderer while he has endangered the lives of many Iranian patients by imposing
strict sanctions," the agency said.
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