WE NEED YOUR URGENT HELP:

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THE ATTACHED PETITION TO SAVE NAVID'S LIFE. Help us build and amplify global support to stop Navid's execution scheduled for September 9.

The petition will be delivered to the International Olympic Committee - who has the power to protect Navid. Please sign and share widely on social media. Thank you!

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been urged to use its leverage to influence Iran, with the WPA claiming the organisation is obliged to help defend Afkari.

The IOC Executive Board are due to meet tomorrow, the same day Afkari is due to be executed.

"Navid has been singled out, tortured and condemned to death because of his participation and success in sport," said Brendan Schwab, the World Players Association executive director.

"The horrific act of executing an athlete can only be regarded as a repudiation of the humanitarian values that underpin sport.

"It must result in Iran forfeiting its right to be a part of sport's universal community.

"It is imperative that the International Olympic Committee, as the 'supreme authority' of global sport, uses its leverage to demand that Iran abides by the IOC's international standards on human rights and humanitarian values, or else risk the ability to remain part of the Olympic Movement.

"United World Wrestling and other sports federations, including FIFA, likewise have influence over Iran and therefore the obligation to defend Navid as well."

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO SAVE NAVID'S LIFE. Thank you!

Read full appeal from the World Players Association here:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1098183/world-players-association-iran-appeal