"From this moment forward, my family and I need help. I am not only talking about Iranian, my audience are every persons who talking about humanity and has a bit of honor in them: Your silence means supporting oppression and oppressors. It means supporting the execution of an innocent person. It means step by step I am getting closer to the gallows."
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Navid Afkari
Navid Afkari was an Iranian wrestler, worker and protester who was executed by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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