Dana White and US President Trump plead with Iranian government to not execute wrestler – By MMAWeekly.com Staff (MMA Weekly) / Sept 5 2020
UFC President Dana White and U.S. President Donald Trump are pleading with the Iranian government, asking them not to execute Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari.
The 27-year-old wrestler has been sentenced to death in Iran. The Iranian government claims that he murdered a security guard during protests in 2018. Afkari, his attorneys, and family say that he was peacefully protesting and that he confessed to the murder only under extreme torture by authorities.
Afkari’s brothers, Vahid and Habib, were sentenced to 54 and 27 years in prison in the same case, according to human rights activists in Iran in a BBC report of the case.
White, in hearing of the sentence, reached out to President Trump, who is a personal friend of his, for help.
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