Monday, 11 January 2021
Iranian Wrestling Federation vice-president Hamid Sourian has called for the planned execution of wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini to be prevented.
According to
The Jerusalem Post, Iranian wrestler Hosseini is due to be executed after being found guilty of murder.
He had reportedly been arrested in 2015 and charged with murder during a group brawl.
The execution is expected to be imminent as the victim's family has not agreed to pardon Hosseini for the alleged crime.
Sourian, a London 2012 Olympic gold medallist in the Greco-Roman 55 kilogram division, has pleaded with the family to prevent Hosseini's execution from taking place.
"I beg Doctor Gholami Gheibi, who is one of the prominent doctors in Dezful, as the father of the victim, to please God," he reportedly said.