Toomaj Salehi pictured in 2021, the year before his arrest.Iran’s supreme court has overturned the death sentence imposed on the rapper Toomaj Salehi, his lawyer said.
In April, an Iranian court sentenced Salehi to death on the capital offence 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. The precise terms of his death sentence were contested by some Iranian authorities, who said the supreme court at the time of sentencing had added that he deserved clemency due to his youth. He may still face a long prison sentence.
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