The lawyer for one of Iran’s popular hip-hop artists and a critic of the regime Toomaj Salehi says the country’s Supreme Court has overturned his death sentence.
Iran’s Supreme Court of a government critic and a popular hip-hop artist, Toomaj Salehi — who came to fame over his lyrics about the death in police custody of in 2022 — his lawyer Amir Raisian said Saturday.
In a post on social media platform X, Raisian said the court assessed the case and found Salehi’s past six years in prison as « excessive » since the punishment was more than what was allowed by law. He added that another branch of the court will now review the case.
Salehi’s death sentence in April by a Revolutionary Court in the central city of Isfahan created confusion as even Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency and the judiciary did not formally confirm it.
