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Iran executes champion wrestler who was 'tortured into confessing to murder'

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Iran has executed a champion wrestler who claimed he was tortured into making a televised false confession in a case that sparked an international outcry.

Navid Afkari, 27, was hanged at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz after he was convicted of stabbing to death a security guard during anti-government protests in August 2018, state media said on Saturday.

Afkari was executed "this morning after legal procedures were carried out at the insistence of the parents and the family of the victim," the media quoted the head of the justice department in the southern Fars province as saying.

Afkari, who was handed two death sentences, had said he was tortured into making a false confession, according to his family and activists, and his attorney says there

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