Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi reportedly sentenced to death for backing protests
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An Iranian court has sentenced a dissident rapper to death, local media reported Wednesday. The rapper has been jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting protests sparked by the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini. "Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth," the artist's lawyer Amir Raisian said, according to the reformist Shargh newspaper.Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing the wave of...

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