September 12, 2020 Navid Afkari an Iranian wrestler who was sentenced to death and executed by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for protesting against the regime during 2018 unrests in Iran, as well as his alleged act of murder of an undercover security guard from the IRGC that occurred during the 2018 Iranian protests. His brothers Vahid and Habib were sentenced to 54 and 27 years, respectively, in prison in the same case. While Afkari initially accepted the murder charge, he would later state that it had been a forced confession, with him having been tortured into making a false confession. Despite Islamic Republic's efforts to portray Navid's execution as a retribution for the deceased security guard, the murder charge was never proven.