FIFPRO, the global association of professional footballers, was shocked and appalled by the possibility that Iranian player Amir Nasr-Azadani will be given the death penalty in connection with the three-month-long protests that have wracked the country.
According to Abdullah Jafari, the head of Isfahan’s judiciary, who was cited on Sunday by Iran’s ISNA news agency, Nasr-Azadani was arrested in the city of Isfahan two days after allegedly taking part in an “armed riot” on September 16 in which three security agents were killed. The 26-year-old was accused of “rebellion, membership in illegal gangs, cooperation to undermine security, and therefore assisting in moharabeh,” or “enmity against God,” a serious crime in the Islamic republic, according to Jafari.
Amir Nasr-Azadani, a professional football player, is being executed in Iran for defending women’s rights and fundamental freedoms there, the union revealed late on Monday. “In solidarity with Amir, we demand the prompt easing of his sentence.” An outcry over Iran’s recent murder of two young men captured in connection with protests led to the alarm being raised. Nasr-Azadani played his first game in Iran’s top division with the Tehran team Rah-Ahan when he first started his football career. Iran was represented by Nasr-Azadani at the Under-16 level.
The defender, currently a member of FC Iranjavan Bushehr, previously played for Tractor SC under the tutelage of former Wales head coach John Toshack. Ali Karimi, a protester and former Iranian international, tweeted in favor of the football player with the additional message, “Do not execute Amir.” The Iranian national team at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar began their protest by refusing to sing the national anthem during their opening match against England. Before games against Wales and the USA, they turned around and sang it. Iran has seen protests since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who was imprisoned by morality police on suspicion of violating the Islamic Republic’s stringent dress code for women.
Amnesty International reports that 11 people have been given proven death sentences as a result of the protests, and at least nine other people, including Nasr-Azadani, are at least at risk of receiving death sentences. Iran refers to the protests as “riots” and asserts that its enemies on the outside encouraged them. A well-known former international celebrity named Voria Ghafouri was arrested in Iran last month after endorsing the protests and criticizing the crackdown, but he was later released on bail.
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