Rapper sentenced to death in Iran for supporting protests against Mahsa Amini’s death

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An Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death for supporting protests against the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022.

An Iranian court sentenced rapper Toomaj Salehi to death for supporting protests against the death of Mahsa Aminiaged 22, in 2022. According to Reutersthe information was revealed by the lawyer Salehi to the Iranian newspaper Sharq, this Wednesday, 24.

The 33-year-old rapper supported the demonstrations over Mahsa’s death in their songs. He was initially arrested in October 2022, after making public statements in support of nationwide protests, and sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison the following year, avoiding the death penalty due to a Supreme Court ruling. .

In an unprecedented decision, the “First Section of the Revolutionary Court of the city of Isfahan did not apply the Supreme Court’s ruling and sentenced Salehi to the most severe punishment,” said his lawyer, Amir Raisian. The Iranian judiciary has not yet confirmed the sentence. Salehi You have 20 days to appeal the decision. “We will definitely appeal this verdict,” Raisian said.

Mahsa Amini in police custody by Iran’s morality police for allegedly wearing the hijab inappropriately. The Office of the US Special Envoy to Iran deplored the sentence and called it a symbol “of the regime’s brutal abuse of its own citizens, disregard for human rights and fear of the democratic change that the Iranian people seek,” said the communicated.

Source: Redação Terra