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Tehran sentences popular rapper to death for backing protests – Iranian reports
Illustrative: Protesters hold portraits of jailed Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi (C) and Mohsen Shekari (Bottom-R), a protestor who was executed in Iran in December 2022, during a rally against the Iranian regime in Lyon, France, January 8, 2023. (Ean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP)
An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, according to local media reports.
“Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court… sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth,” the singer’s lawyer Amir Raisian says, as quoted by the reformist Shargh newspaper.
