Toomaj Salehi, a famous Iranian rapper, has been sentenced to death for « corruption on earth » after supporting the 2022 protests in Iran. This 33-year-old artist is at risk of being hanged. Arrested in October 2022, he had expressed his support for the protest movement triggered after the death on September 16, 2022 of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman detained by the morality police for violating the strict dress code imposed on women.
The verdict of the revolutionary court in Isfahan, reported by a local Iranian media on Wednesday, quoting the rapper’s lawyer and still subject to appeal, stunned Iranian NGOs and activists as it contradicted a previous decision of the Supreme Court. According to UN experts, the rapper was initially sentenced to six years in prison before being ordered to be released. However, he was arrested again in November.
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