Well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who supported the protest movement that sprang up in Iran last year, has avoided a death sentence and has been jailed for six years and three months, his lawyer told Monday’s edition of the daily newspaper Shargh.
Salehi had expressed support online and in his songs for a wave of nationwide protest triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman arrested for wearing “inappropriate attire.”
Salehi was convicted of “corruption on earth,” which covers a broad range of offences including those related to Islamic morality, and can carry the death sentence.
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