Well-known Iranian rapper Tumaz Salehi, who supported the wave of protest that erupted last year in Iranavoided the death penalty and was sentenced to six years and three months in prison, writes today Shargh newspaper citing his lawyer.
Salehi had expressed his support online and in his songs for the wave of protests in Iran sparked by her death. 22-year-old Mahsa Amini of Kurdish Iranian origin while in custody after being arrested by the morals police for violating the dress code.
Salehi was convicted of “corruption in the land”, a charge that covers a wide range of offences, including those related to the implementation of Islamic morals, for which the death penalty can be imposed upon conviction, as reported by the Athens-Macedonian Agency. News.
His lawyer, Rose Etemant Ansarisaid, according to the newspaper, that Salehi was acquitted of charges of insulting Iran’s supreme leader and of collaborating with enemy governments and was released from solitary confinement and is in the general ward of the prison where he is being held.
In November, Iranian media released videos of him Salehi while in custody, in which he appeared blindfolded and recanted his earlier comments critical of the authorities.
Source: News Beast
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