A The conviction was announced by Amir Raesian, the rapper’s defense lawyer, who has been detained for more than a year and a half for supporting the protest movement.
Hundreds of people died during the protests that followed the death, on September 16, 2022, of the young Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, aged 22, three days after she was detained by the morality police for allegedly not respecting the dress code very much. strict tax on women in Iran.
“The revolutionary court of Isfahan […] sentenced Toomaj Salehi to the death penalty for corruption on Earth”, one of the most serious charges in Iran, said the singer’s lawyer, Amir Raisian, quoted by the daily Shargh, adding that he will appeal the decision.
The lawyer explained that the court considered the charges of sedition, collusion and propaganda against the system and incitement to riots against Salehi as examples of “corruption on earth” and therefore handed down the death sentence against the musician.
The accusation of corruption on Earth covers a series of crimes against public security and Islamic morality.
Raeisian considered the sentence “unprecedented” and announced that he will appeal the decision.
Salehi was arrested in late October 2022 and charged with “corruption on earth” for supporting protests sparked by Amini’s death.
In July 2023, another revolutionary court sentenced Salehi to six years and three months in prison, a sentence that was rejected on appeal by the Supreme Court, which returned the case to a lower court to study it again.
In November 2023, Salehi was released on bail, but was arrested again just eleven days later.
The ‘rapper’ and dissident, known by his first name – Toomaj -, has clashed with authorities in the past and was sentenced to six months in prison and a fine in January 2022 for “provoking violence and insurrection”, although the sentence prison sentence has been suspended.
Singer Shervin Hajipour was also sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for “propaganda against the system and inciting riots” for his song “Baraye” (Stop), which became the anthem of the protests.
Amini’s death sparked strong protests that for months called for the end of the Islamic Republic and only disappeared after a repression that caused 500 deaths and the arrest of at least 22,000 people and in which eight protesters were executed, one of them in public.
Many women stopped wearing the veil after the protests as a gesture of civil disobedience and now authorities have taken the so-called Morality Police back to the streets to reimpose the use of Islamic attire.
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