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Iranian rapper sentenced to death: “Toomaj is the embodiment of courage”, says his lawyer Chirine Ardakani
Iranian rapper sentenced to death: “Toomaj is the embodiment of courage”, says his lawyer Chirine Ardakani
(franceinfo)
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, a protest figure in Iran, was sentenced to death for criticizing the Iranian regime. Chirine Ardakani, his lawyer, was on the set of 19/20 info Saturday May 4.
The death sentence for Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has sparked global outrage. In Iran, people also dare to express their solidarity. Chirine Ardakani, his lawyer, co-signed a platform with a large collective of artists and human rights activists to ask Emmanuel Macron to save the rapper. “France has always stood out for its abolitionist tradition of the death penalty”, she recalls. Chirine Ardakani specifies that “in 2023 alone, 834 Iranians have been hanged.”
A war against women in Iran
More than a symbol, “Toomaj is the embodiment of courage” for his lawyer, because “he calls for a revolutionary uprising”. After his first incarceration where he was “placed in solitary confinement for 200 days”Toomaj Salehi made a video “by denouncing the torture he had suffered. He was reincarcerated and sentenced”relates Chirine Ardakani.
If the women’s movement does not weaken, “the moral police have re-entered the streets” at the call of guide Khamenei. “Which led Nargess Mohammadi to say that there is a war against women”, explains Chirine Ardakani, who is also his lawyer. The activists are particularly waiting for France “takes up international law”as well as legal and economic sanctions.
