Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer ( www.dw.com )

Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi wrote songs in support of the protest movement in Iran following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. He has been in jail for over a year.

Popular Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death over his role in supporting the protest movement triggered by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, Iranian reformist newspaper Shargh Daily reported quoting the musician's lawyer. 

"Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court ... sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth," the singer's lawyer Amir Raisian told the newspaper. 

The charge covers a broad range of offenses including those related to Islamic morality and can carry the death penalty.

Salehi, 33, was arrested for showing support for anti-government protests, following the death of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022. He had also written songs about the protests.

mycathas9lives ,

This young mans contract with life was terminated for expressing himself in music. This speaks volumes of this part of the world. Not a place to ever go or support. Let it stay a dust bowl of human suffering and need. It's what that area wants.

Etterra ,

Well I mean if he's a rapper...

Eh, I suppose Iran is worse.

lung ,
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writes poetry to a rhythm

THIS GUY DESERVES TO DIE

mister_monster ,

Good god Iran's shit is all over the place. He gets sentenced to 6 years, appeals it, gets sentenced to death. Death dude. For saying something out loud. How do governments like this expect to ever gain legitimacy in the eyes of the people they rule?

Kalkaline ,
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They don't want legitimacy, they want to rule by brute force

Badeendje ,
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Uhm, there is a good chunk of the population that does not disagree with their government.

Plenty of people in Iran suffer under the regime and the barbaric worldviews the government brings into practice. But don't be fooled ino thinking these people are a majority there.

Also in Islamic countries that do actually have free elections, Islamist parties get plenty of votes.

JustZ ,
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The Iranian Immamate is wildly popular in Iran and the middle east generally. They've got homicidal fanatics all over the place ready to kill Jews and Americans and anyone else that suggests political power is derived from the consent of the governed and not from sky daddy.

mister_monster ,

Have you ever met an Iranian?

footoro ,

Lmao this. Pretty much every Iranian you talk to in a trusted environment hates their government. And then most of them are pretty hardcore atheists either. Like nothing wrong with being atheist but to a degree that makes me personally already uncomfortable.

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