A death sentence imposed on a prominent Iranian rapper who supported protests against the regime has been overturned by the country’s supreme court, his lawyer has announced.
Toomaj Salehi, 33, was sentenced to death in April for the capital offence of “corruption on Earth”, a charge often used by the Iran regime to target activists.
His songs backed protests that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police in September 2022. Amini, 22, a Kurdish-Iranian woman, had been detained for wearing an improper hijab.
“The death sentence of Toomaj Salehi was overturned,” Amir Raisian, Salehi’s lawyer wrote on Twitter/X, adding that the supreme court had ordered a retrial. Index on Censorship, the free speech organisation, said the court found