The lawyer for one of Iran's popular hip-hop artists and a critic of the regime says the country's Supreme Court has overturned his death sentence.
Iran's Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a government critic and a popular hip-hop artist, Toomaj Salehi — who came to fame over his lyrics about the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in 2022 — his lawyer Amir Raisian said Saturday. In a post on social media platform X, Raisian said that the court assessed the case and found Salehi’s last six years in prison as “excessive” since the punishment was more than what was allowed by law.
Salehi was released from prison last November after spending a year there on charges that his supporters said were based on the hip-hop artist’s music and participation in the protests that broke out in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22. Amini died in the custody of the country’s morality police after being detained for wearing her hijab too loosely. Salehi rapped about Amini in one video, saying: “Someone’s crime was dancing with her hair in the wind.
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