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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The Tehran-based family of the executed British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari have been prevented from seeing his body or burying him in the grave in which he had asked to be laid to rest in Shiraz, his birthplace, family members have told the Guardian.
  The family were told he would not be executed on Friday, a holiday in Iran, and say they were also given false hope on Friday evening by the intelligence ministry that there was a chance of reprieve, only to wake on Saturday morning to a statement from the judicial news agency announcing he had been executed.
  On Monday the family arrived to bury Akbari in the agreed plot, only to be told by cemetery officials that a body with the precise same name and details had been buried there on Thursday.
  
  
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context: The Tehran-based family of the executed British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari have been prevented from seeing his body or burying him in the grave in which he had asked to be laid to rest in Shiraz, his birthplace, family members have told the Guardian.
  Akbari was executed for spying for M16, charges he vehemently denied and for which there is no substantive evidence, save a confession extracted under torture.
  In a final humiliation for the family, Akbari’s sister and daughter went to the Tehran cemetery where the officials had said he must be buried to collect the body, and to place him in the allocated grave site, only to be told by officials that a man with the same name and details had been buried at the cemetery on Thursday, and there was no body to collect. >
  
  Isn’t it MI6, not M16 like the gun? >
  
  Yeah it is. The article got it wrong >
  
  What a demented regime. >
  
  I’m Iranian in the diaspora. 
  Unfortunately this is part of their playbook. They don’t allow you to view the body or receive the body unless you agree to their terms - follow their story for how they died and why, promise not to speak out against the government, etc. 
  For example, they removed Nika Shakarami from her grave and buried her in an undisclosed location after her family spoke out against her murder. 
  The Islamic Republic are a bunch of sick fucks who have no respect for the living or the dead. >
  
  That’s terrible. Straight up evil.