Photo: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Navid Afkari
نوید افکاری
1993–2020 · 6 years ago
- Born
- 22 July 1993
- Taken
- 12 September 2020
- Age
- 27 years old
- From
- Shiraz, Fars
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Navid Afkari was born in 1993 in Sepidan, near Shiraz, and grew up with four brothers and an older sister. He stopped studying after his diploma because the family needed money, and worked as a welder and plasterer alongside two of his brothers.
He took up Greco-Roman wrestling at about nine and kept at it at a high level, winning at least 11 provincial and national titles, among them the national youth championship in 2007 and the adult national championship in 2016. He was also a gifted hairdresser and tailor, and he painted, did calligraphy and wrote poetry.
During his military service in 2013 he refused to vote, even under threat of extra service. In the summer of 2018 he joined the protests against high prices and unemployment; his mother said he went out 'to fight oppression'.
Your silence is equivalent to supporting oppression and the oppressors.
How the regime took them
He was arrested in September 2018 and charged with the killing of a man in Shiraz on 2 August 2018, during the protests, as well as with protest-related offences. He said he had been tortured into confessing, and a man who had been with the victim and saw the attackers did not identify him. Every complaint he filed about his torture was dismissed. He was sentenced to death under qisas, retribution, and also to death for 'enmity against God' by the Revolutionary Court, after what Iran Human Rights called a grossly unfair trial. He was hanged at about 3 a.m. on 12 September 2020 in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz.
