Salehi’s lawyer said Iran’s Supreme Court had ordered a retrial. Salehi was arrested during the protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini.

People hold placards bearing portraits of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who is arrested in Iran, and portraits of children, who were killed during the protests in Iran, during a rally in support of Iranian women in Istanbul, on November 26, 2022.

Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned a death sentence against popular rapper Toomaj Salehi who was jailed for backing nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, his lawyer said Saturday, June 22. “Salehi’s death sentence was overturned,” the rapper’s lawyer Amir Raisian said in a post on X, adding that the Islamic republic’s top court had ordered a retrial. “The Supreme Court prevented an irreparable judicial error,” Raisian said.

In April, an Iranian sentenced Salehi to death on the capital offense of “corruption on earth,” Raisian said at the time. The rapper was also found guilty of “assistance in sedition, assembly and collusion, propaganda against the state and calling for riots,” the lawyer said.

Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing demonstrations which had erupted a month earlier, triggered by Amini’s death in police custody. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, had been detained by the morality police in Tehran over an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict dress rules for women.

The months-long protests sparked by Amini’s death saw hundreds of people killed, including dozens of security personnel. Thousands were arrested as authorities moved to quell what they branded foreign-instigated “riots.” Nine men have been executed in protest-related cases involving killings and other violence against security forces.

Le Monde with AFP

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