Wednesday, July 19, 2023, a judge at Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, capital of the northeastern Razavi Khorasan Province, sentenced to death Mohammad Javad Vafa’i Thani, a political prisoner in Iran. Sentenced on the bogus charge of “corruption on Earth,” Mr. Vafa’i Thani was taken to an unknown location after being informed of his death sentence. Mr. Vafa’i Thani, 27, among the boxing champions in Mashhad’s boxing clubs, was arrested in March 2020 and tortured for a long time.
Iranian human rights activists calls on the United Nations, the European Union, and member states, as well as all human rights organizations and bodies to take urgent action to save the life of this political prisoner and prevent his execution after serving a four-year prison term.
In an urgent letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, 96 international NGOs, current and former United Nations officials, human rights and legal experts, and Nobel laureates called for immediate intervention to prevent the imminent execution of Vafaee Thani.
AWYAF, as well as the other freedom lovers held protest rallies across the world, calling for urgent action to save the life of Mohammad Javad Vafaee Thani and to halt executions in Iran.
