{"id":43798,"date":"2020-09-14T20:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43798"},"modified":"2020-09-14T20:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:30:38","slug":"israeli-handed-3-life-sentences-for-killing-palestinian-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43798","title":{"rendered":"Israeli handed 3 life sentences for killing Palestinian family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran\u2019s foreign ministry on Monday summoned Germany\u2019s ambassador over tweets condemning the execution of a wrestler, accused of murdering a man during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.<br \/>The ministry \u201cstrongly condemned\u201d the tweets and told German envoy Hans-Udo Muzel that the reaction was considered to be an \u201cinterference in the internal affairs\u201d of Iran, an official statement read.<br \/>It called on the German embassy to \u201crecognize the limits of its diplomatic duties and not go beyond them.\u201d<br \/>\u201cInterference in the laws, regulations and judicial procedures of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not tolerable in any way,\u201d the statement added.<br \/>Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old wrestler, was executed at a prison in the southern city of Shiraz on Saturday.<br \/>According to Iran\u2019s judiciary, he had been found guilty of \u201cvoluntary homicide\u201d for stabbing to death a water department employee on August 2, 2018.<br \/>Shiraz and several other urban centers across Iran had been the scene that day of anti-government protests and demonstrations over economic and social hardship.<br \/>The German embassy condemned Afkari\u2019s death in a message written in Farsi posted on its official Twitter account on Sunday.<br \/>\u201cWe were deeply shocked by the execution of Navid Afkari,\u201d the message read.<br \/>\u201cIt is not acceptable that basic legal rights be ignored in order to silence opposing voices,\u201d it added.<br \/>The embassy said that Afkari\u2019s two brothers \u201care still in prison and now they need our solidarity.\u201d<br \/>Reports published abroad say Afkari was convicted on the basis of confessions aired on television after being extracted under torture, prompting online campaigns for his release.<br \/>The judiciary\u2019s Mizan Online news agency has denied the accusations.<br \/>Earlier on Monday, a judiciary official condemned the \u201cinterference of some European embassies\u201d and called on them to \u201cnot be a loudspeaker for lies like an opposition group.\u201d<br \/>\u201cForeign pressure will neither dull the sharp tip of the judiciary\u2019s justice, nor lessen its Islamic mercy and compassion,\u201d Mizan Online quoted the judiciary\u2019s deputy head for international affairs Ali Bagheri as saying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran\u2019s foreign ministry on Monday summoned Germany\u2019s ambassador over tweets condemning the execution of a wrestler, accused of murdering a man during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.The ministry \u201cstrongly condemned\u201d the tweets and told German envoy Hans-Udo Muzel that the reaction was considered to be an \u201cinterference in the internal affairs\u201d of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}