A revolutionary court docket in Iran sentenced rapper Toomaj Salehi to death this Wednesday for sedition, anti-establishment propaganda and inciting riots through the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, the younger lady arrested for sporting the veil incorrectly, as reported by her lawyer Amir Raesian to native media.
The first chamber of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court “condemned Tomaj Salehi to the harshest punishment, deathfor the cost of corruption on earth,” Amir Raeisian, the musician’s lawyer, advised the reformist newspaper Shargh.
The lawyer defined that the court docket thought of the accusations of sedition, collusion in opposition to the system, propaganda in opposition to the system and incitement to riots in opposition to Salehi as examples of “corruption on earth” for which he handed down the death sentence in opposition to the musician.
The cost of corruption on earth encompasses a sequence of crimes in opposition to public safety and Islamic morality. Raeisian has described the sentence as “unprecedented” and has introduced that it’s going to enchantment the choice.
Salehi was arrested in late October 2022 and charged with “corruption on earth” for help the protests unleashed by the death on September 16 of that yr of Mahsa Amini after being arrested for not sporting the Islamic veil correctly.
A revolutionary court docket sentenced Salehi to six years and three months in jail in July 2023, a sentence that was rejected on enchantment by the Supreme Court, which returned the case to a decrease court docket to examine the case once more. In November 2023 he was launched on bail, however he was arrested once more simply eleven days later.
The rapper and dissident, recognized by his given title – Toomaj -, has already clashed with authorities previously and was sentenced to six months in jail and a wonderful in January 2022 for “provoke violence and riot”, though the jail sentence was suspended.
Singer Shervin Hajipour was additionally sentenced to three years and eight months in jail for “propaganda in opposition to the system and incitement to riots” for his tune Baraye (Para), which grew to become the anthem of the protests.
Amini’s death sparked robust protests that for months referred to as for the tip of the Islamic Republic and solely disappeared after a repression that triggered 500 useless and the arrest of at the least 22,000 folks and by which eight protesters have been executed, one in all them in public.
Many girls stopped sporting the veil after the protests as a gesture of civil disobedience and now the authorities have taken to the streets once more on the name Morality Police to reimpose using the Islamic garment.
