Salehi in his songs supported months of protests in Iran in 2022 sparked by the dying in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian lady arrested for allegedly sporting an “improper” hijab.
An Iranian revolutionary courtroom has sentenced well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to dying for charges linked to Iran’s 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer instructed Iranian newspaper Sharq on Wednesday.
Salehi in his songs supported months of protests in Iran in 2022 sparked by the dying in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian lady arrested for allegedly sporting an “improper” hijab.
Salehi was initially arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in help of the nationwide protests.
He was sentenced in 2023 to six years and three months in jail, however averted a dying sentence due to a Supreme Court ruling.
“Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of (the central city of) Isfahan in an unprecedented move, did not enforce the Supreme Court’s ruling …. and sentenced Salehi to the harshest punishment,” his lawyer Amir Raisian instructed Sharq.
Iranian judiciary has not confirmed the sentence but. Salehi has 20 days to attraction the ruling.
“We will definitely appeal this verdict,” his lawyer mentioned.
The U.S. Office of the Special Envoy for Iran deplored the sentence, calling it in an announcement posted on X an instance “of the regime’s brutal abuse of its own citizens, disregard for human rights, and fear of the democratic change the Iranian people seek.”
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