Iran executes wrestler whose life Trump asked to be spared
Navid Afkari’s case had drawn the attention of a social media campaign that portrayed him and his brothers as victims./ A group of protesters chant slogans in June 2018 at the main gate of the Old Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran. On Sept. 5, Iran broadcast the televised confession of a wrestler facing the death penalty after a tweet from President Donald Trump criticizing the case, a segment that resembled hundreds of other suspected coerced confessions aired over the last decade in the Islamic Republic. | Iranian Labor News Agency via AP/ ...
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