Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi wrote songs in support of the protest movement in Iran following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. He has been in jail for over a year.
Popular Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death over his role in supporting the protest movement triggered by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, Iranian reformist newspaper Shargh Daily reported quoting the musician’s lawyer.
“Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court … sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth,” the singer’s lawyer Amir Raisian told the newspaper.
The charge covers a broad range of offenses including those related to Islamic morality and can carry the death penalty.
Salehi, 33, was arrested for showing support for anti-government protests, following the death of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022. He had also written songs about the protests.
Imo this is a great example of what not having freedom of speech actually looks like. It’s not when you get banned on a private social media platform. It’s when government just kills you for talking.
Iran is one of the biggest threats to global stability alongside Russia at this point. If they keep fucking around with Israel they’re going to feel Freedom at full force launched right up their fucking ass.
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“Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court … sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth,” the singer’s lawyer Amir Raisian told the newspaper.
The charge covers a broad range of offenses including those related to Islamic morality and can carry the death penalty.
Salehi, 33, was arrested for showing support for anti-government protests, following the death of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022.
The Revolutionary Court had accused Salehi of “assistance in sedition, assembly and collusion, propaganda against the system and calling for riots”, the lawyer said.
Salehi was freed on bail on November 18, Raisian said at the time, adding the Supreme Court had found “flaws in the initial sentence” of six years in prison.
In the months of unrest that followed Amini’s death on September 16, 2022, hundreds of people were killed, including dozens of security personnel, and thousands more were arrested.
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This young mans contract with life was terminated for expressing himself in music. This speaks volumes of this part of the world. Not a place to ever go or support. Let it stay a dust bowl of human suffering and need. It’s what that area wants.
