On October 4, 2025, Iran’s Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence against Mohammad Javad Vafaei-Sani (orVafa’i Thani), a supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), according to a statement published by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
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Iran's Supreme Court has once again upheld the death sentence for political prisoner and @Mojahedineng supporter Mohammad Javad Vafai Sani.This decision follows the recent executions of two other PMOI supporters, Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, as the… pic.twitter.com/pOXuaPfzAU
— SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) October 4, 2025
Vafaei-Sani, aged 30 and formerly a boxing champion and coach in Mashhad, was arrested in March 2020 in Mashhad. The NCRI alleges that he has been subjected to severe physical and psychological torture while in detention. In September 2024, he was sentenced to death for the third time by judges Saadi Makan and Yazdan-Khah.
On Saturday, Oct 4, the death sentence of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a boxing coach from Mashhad, was upheld for the third time amid serious judicial ambiguities.
He was arrested in March 2020 and remains held in Vakilabad Prison.#StopExecutionsInIran https://t.co/rlVVVU1yUf— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) October 5, 2025
His lawyer, via a post on the social media platform X, criticized the judgment, saying: “The death sentence of Mr. Mohammad Javad Vafaei-Sani … despite numerous legal flaws, was affirmed by Branch 9 of the Supreme Court.”
The NCRI is urging the United Nations and relevant international bodies to intervene immediately to save his life and those of other political prisoners on death row.
🧵Iranian boxer Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, 27, has been sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial in relation to the nationwide protests that took place in Iran in November 2019. He is currently in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad, Khorasan-e Razavi province. 1/7 pic.twitter.com/HiHnlebUWd
— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) August 4, 2023