Imprisoned for more than a year and a half for his support for the 2022 protest movement, he will be tried again “before a similar court”, said his lawyer.
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Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned rapper Toomaj Salehi’s death sentence by hanging. “The case will be referred to a similar court”his lawyer, Amir Raïssian, said on Saturday June 22 on X. This popular rapper, imprisoned for more than a year and a half, had supported the protest movement launched after the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the moral police, who accused her of breaking the strict dress code for women.
Iranian justice accuses the 33-year-old artist of‘”incitement to sedition, assembly, conspiracy, propaganda against the system and call for riots”, according to his lawyer. In April, iHe was sentenced to death for “corruption on Earth”, one of the most serious charges in Iran.
From the start of the protest in Iran, at the end of 2022, the singer got involved with women who, via the movement united around the slogan “Women, life, freedom”, demonstrated against the Mullahs’ regime and showed themselves without veils, risking their lives. During a brief release in November 2023, the artist claimed to have “summer tortured for a long time [s]“detention”.
