Olympians call on Iran to halt execution of boxing champion

Sports personalities including Martina Navratilova and the swimmer Sharron Davies sign letter condemning Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani’s death sentence

More than 20 Olympic medallists, coaches and other international athletes, including the tennis player Martina Navratilova and the swimmer Sharron Davies, have signed a letter calling for a halt to the execution of a boxing champion and coach, who is on death row in Iran.

Amid growing international outrage over Iran’s escalating use of capital punishment as a tool of oppression, the strongly worded letter condemns the Iranian regime’s decision to uphold the death sentence of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani.

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‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest

The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife

As a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital.

“Delhi is not a liveable city any more, it’s a death trap,” said Radhika Aggarwal, 33, an engineer who joined the protest on Sunday.

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Car blast near New Delhi’s historic Red Fort kills at least 8 people, India’s police say – AP News

  1. Car blast near New Delhi’s historic Red Fort kills at least 8 people, India’s police say  AP News
  2. India rattled after car explosion in Delhi kills at least 8 people  NBC News
  3. India PM Modi says those responsible for Delhi blast will be brought to justice  Reuters
  4. India police investigate vehicle involved in fatal Delhi explosion  The Guardian
  5. Delhi Red Fort blast live: Terrorism law invoked in India after 13 killed  Al Jazeera
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