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Sports Champions Appeal on Iranian Authorities to Halt Execution of Boxing Star
More than twenty Olympic champions, trainers and further world-class competitors have put their names to a statement urging a end to the death penalty of a boxing champion and trainer, who is facing execution in the country.
Increasing Worldwide Condemnation
During rising worldwide anger over the nation's escalating use of executions as a instrument of suppression, the strongly worded statement denounces the authorities's verdict to confirm the death sentence of the athlete.
The boxer, thirty, from Mashhad in north-east Iran, was taken into custody for being involved in nationwide protests in 2019 and indicted of backing an dissident organization. He has spent 60 months in prison, where he has been tortured and held in solitary confinement.
“Competition is designed to promote faith, unity, and bravery,” the endorsers expressed. “The capital punishment of a titleholder for his beliefs is a blatant attack on these principles and a caution to all sportspeople who ventures to voice opinions.
Pattern of Putting to Death Sports Figures
The appeal noted that the boxer's situation was not unique and highlighted the country's record of putting to death athletes for their convictions, including a football captain, leader of the national football team, and a women's sports leader, leader of the national women’s volleyball team. In two thousand twenty, Navid Afkari, a 27-year Iranian sports titleholder, was also executed.
Other supporters to the letter consist of Tracy Edwards, who captained the pioneering all-female crew in a global yacht race and was the pioneering lady to be awarded a esteemed sailing award; the ex- leader of the Australian football team a sports advocate; and a sports figure, who was in the national team for the international competition.
Detention and Flawed Legal Process
Vafaei Sani was arrested in March 2020. The charges against him included “spreading corruption on Earth through fire-setting and destruction of state assets”. His ruling has been annulled twice but on 4 October it was upheld on the third occasion. His court case was denounced as “deeply biased” by advocates and bodies.
Call to International Body
The appeal to halt Vafaei Sani’s execution comes after a 2023 appeal to the United Nations official for freedoms, endorsed by in excess of a hundred rights specialists and entities, calling for intervention to prevent the athlete’s death.
Capital Punishment Escalation
According to data, there is an “death penalty surge in the nation, which has attained horrific levels”. In the year 2023, the government put to death at least eight hundred fifty-three people – a nearly half surge on 2022. Last year, statistics showed nine hundred seventy-two executions, constituting the maximum count since two thousand fifteen. More than eight hundred people have been executed so far in 2025.
Political prisoners and dissidents are victims, notably in the wake of the 2022 demonstrations. Analysts say the regime have used the capital punishment to suppress opposition, generate anxiety among the public and strengthen their control on power.
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