The sentencing against 27-year-old Navid Afkari has triggered widespread outrage from human rights activists, Iranian-Americans, and a decorated American wrestler, who are demanding Tehran's clerical rulers to stop the execution. One death sentence was imposed by a criminal court and one by a “revolutionary court.”“This is what the Islamic Republic of Iran does to a mother. "The regime has sentenced her son Navid Afkari to death for a simply protesting [sic]. They worried they might screw the first one up?”The actress Nazanin Boniadi tweeted: “Champion wrestler Navid Afkari has been sentenced to death for participating in anti-government protests in Iran. "World leaders led by Germany, France, and Japan should tell Ayatollah [to] cancel these death sentences or lose your economic lifelines," it tweeted.

Source: Fox News September 01, 2020 12:11 UTC