Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi’s Death Sentence Overturned
Iranian rap artist Toomaj Salehi has been granted a retrial as his dying sentence for protesting in opposition to the federal government two years in the past was overturned.
On Saturday (June 22), the MC’s lawyer Amir Raesian shared the information on Twitter in Farsi.
“As expected, the Supreme Court avoided an irreparable judicial error,” the put up reads when translated to English. “The death sentence [Toomaj] was violated and based on the appeal decision of the 39th branch of the Supreme Court, the case will be referred to the parallel branch for consideration.”
He continued: “In its detailed ruling, the court branch, in addition to violating the death sentence, has reiterated that even the previous prison sentence (6 years and three months) did not comply with the rules of multiplicity of crimes and is contrary to Article 131 and is in excess of legal punishment.”
شعبه دیوان در حکم دقیق خود ضمن نقض حکم اعدام، مجددا تاکید کرده است که حتی حکم حبس قبلی(۶سال و سه ماه) بدون رعایت قواعد تعدد جرم بوده و بر خلاف ماده ١٣١ و مازاد بر مجازات قانونی است.
٢/٢— امير رئيسيان AMIR RAESIAN (@amirreiis) June 22, 2024
In 2022, Iran was nudged right into a state of political unrest following the suspicious circumstances surrounding the dying of Mahsa Amini. At the time of her passing, the 22-year-old was in police custody for not carrying a hijab. Her dying sparked a wave of demonstrations in defiance of non secular morality legal guidelines and authoritarian enforcement.
The rebellion grew right into a pushback in opposition to the mistreatment of girls throughout Iran, and 32-year-old Toomaj Salehi turned one of many loudest voices calling out these in energy via his music and social-media posts. This finally led to his arrest.
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Earlier this 12 months, in April, he was sentenced to dying.
The rapper was first arrested again in October 2022. He was charged and later discovered responsible of “corruption on earth,” a criminal offense that covers all offenses that the federal government believes “threaten social and political well-being.”
In December 2022, authorities launched a confession video during which the artist stated: “Music can produce violence. I have made mistakes, I do apologize. I apologize to you and the society for any violence that I have instigated.”
The confession got here weeks after he had been sentenced to dying in November, and properly forward of the second when Toomaj Salehi was allowed to rent a private legal professional on December 29.
More than 500,000 supporters signed a petition for his launch, which arrived forward of a second arrest final 12 months. During his short-lived freedom, he revealed in a video that he was tortured and positioned in solitary confinement for 252 days.
