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Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer – DW – 04/24/2024

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.

"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. 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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