‘President-elect’ Ebrahim Raisi was one of the perpetrators of the extrajudicial executions as Capital’s Deputy Prosecutor. He was also a member of the ‘death commission’ in Tehran, who drove thousands of political prisoners to the gallows in the prisons of Evin, Qezelhessar, Gohardasht, etc. “[Interrogators] are tired of us, they want to set us free,” Abdi said when the guards had come to take her to the gallows.
Habib Khabiri, of course, was not the sole Iranian athlete who was faced severe punishments for political beliefs and activities. Iranian authorities also arrested Forouzan Abdi, a member of the Persian women’s national volleyball team, for membership in the PMOI/MEK in 1982.
