Iranian state TV on Saturday reported that the country's authorities executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man, after US President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man's life to be spared.
State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi, as saying: "The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the killer of Hassan Torkaman, was carried out this morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz."
The International Olympic Committee in a statement Saturday said it was shocked and saddened by the news of the wrestler's execution, and that the committee's president, Thomas Bach, "had made direct personal appeals to the supreme leader and to the president of Iran this week and asked for mercy for Navid Afkari."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the execution was cruel.
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