Less than two weeks after being freed on bail, prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been arrested again.
The outspoken critic of the Iranian regime previously spent a year and 21 days in detention, including 252 days in solitary confinement, in Isfahan Central Prison in Iran.
The initial account of his rearrest came from Negin Niknaam, the rapper’s closest confidante.
On Thursday afternoon in the northern Iranian city of Babol, she said, several unidentified plainclothes agents armed with handguns and Kalashnikovs attacked the car that Toomaj and his friends were travelling in.
Niknaam, who spoke with eyewitnesses, said the rapper was beaten repeatedly with the butts
