[Nicky91]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/25/m...ntl/index.html

Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread protests that swept Iran in 2022, according to his lawyer.

“An order for the execution of Toomaj Salehi has been issued,” Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raesian tweeted Wednesday.

The rapper has been detained, held in solitary confinement and was allegedly tortured following his arrest.

In an unprecedented move, a court in Isfahan reversed the higher Supreme Court’s decision on Saleh’s case on Tuesday, upholding the original verdict of “corruption on earth” and issued the maximum punishment of death, according to Iranian pro-reform outlets Shargh and Entekhab.

State media said Salehi’s sentence is subject for reduction by a pardoning committee if he appeals again.

Salehi, 32, who has been critical of the Iranian regime and outspoken against the government in rap lyrics and on social media, was briefly released from prison last year before police violently rearrested him and sent him to prison in Isfahan, witnesses said at the time.

He was rearrested after appearing in a video where he revealed that he was tortured and placed in solitary confinement for 252 days following his arrest in October 2022, UN experts said in a statement published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Another artist, Kurdish-Iranian rapper Saman Yasin, who was also arrested at the height of 2022’s protests in Iran, was transferred to a psychiatric hospital two times in less than a year, according to pro-reform news outlet IranWire.

A court in Tehran sentenced Yasin to five years in prison, according to group focused on Kurdish human rights, Hengaw.

Demonstrations swept the country after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, which occurred under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. A brutal crackdown on the protests by Iranian authorities targeted the weeks-long protests.

“We strongly condemn Toomaj Salehi’s death sentence and the five-year sentence for Kurdish-Iranian rapper Saman Yasin. We call for their immediate release,” the United States’ Office of the Special Envoy for Iran tweeted. “These are the latest examples of the regime’s brutal abuse of its own citizens, disregard for human rights, and fear of the democratic change the Iranian people seek.”

UN experts also demanded Salehi’s release and urged Iranian authorities to reverse the death sentence.

“We are alarmed by the imposition of the death sentence and the alleged ill-treatment of Mr. Salehi which appears to be related solely to the exercise of his right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity,” the experts said.

Salehi’s political sponsor in Europe, German Member of Parliament Ye-One Rhie, called the death sentence against Salehi “absurd and inhumane.”

“It is still completely unclear how this verdict came about,” she tweeted Wednesday. “It is unbelievable how irresponsibly and arbitrarily the Iranian regime treats defendants. It is impossible to recognize the rule of law in the chaos of the courts in charge.”

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[Mystic Mock]

Imo I honestly don't get why the Iranian citizens aren't kicking up a stink more about this.

The Government in any country, can't fight the majority of it's own citizens.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Imo I honestly don't get why the Iranian citizens aren't kicking up a stink more about this.

The Government in any country, can't fight the majority of it's own citizens.

retired star footballer Ali Daei and his wife and child tried fleeing the country couple years ago, because Daei is also very much against the current government and they were stopped from leaving at the airport

he also got beaten up few years ago as well and robbed of some of his jewelry

the police did nothing after that incident because he's against the government so basically the police there are also on the regime their payroll

[arista]

[Iranian rapper sentenced to death for voicing
his opinion against the regime]

It's his own fault.

He should have gone to another nation
to do his music

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by arista

[Iranian rapper sentenced to death for voicing
his opinion against the regime]

It's his own fault.

He should have gone to another nation
to do his music

not that easy to leave the country, read my post above yours


this rapper also is very popular in the country, so this only adds more fuel to the raging fire in terms of hatred against the regime


they also sentenced a woman to death for wearing her hijab the wrong way some months ago

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

retired star footballer Ali Daei and his wife and child tried fleeing the country couple years ago, because Daei is also very much against the current government and they were stopped from leaving at the airport

he also got beaten up few years ago as well and robbed of some of his jewelry

the police did nothing after that incident because he's against the government so basically the police there are also on the regime their payroll

I understand all of that, and I get that it's scary to take on authority.

But in a scenario like what Iran is currently in, you either live in constant fear that the Government will want you arrested over anything that they deem to be offensive to them (rather than on if it's an actual crime that's a danger to society) or you fight in the hope of living in a more free society.

I mean I know that we in the West don't really feel like we are given enough liberties in certain areas, but we're a utopia compared to this with Iran.

And that's not an attack on their regular citizens towards the end of my paragraph above, but how the country is being run.

[bitontheslide]

it's Iran

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

not that easy to leave the country, read my post above yours


this rapper also is very popular in the country, so this only adds more fuel to the raging fire in terms of hatred against the regime


they also sentenced a woman to death for wearing her hijab the wrong way some months ago

Of Course.
But such a strict nation
it is better to escape it.

Do not leave via the Airport.

Go via borders

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Imo I honestly don't get why the Iranian citizens aren't kicking up a stink more about this.

The Government in any country, can't fight the majority of it's own citizens.

Iran needs a revolution. The regime is killing their own people!

[Vanessa]

They were more or less free under the sha'. It wasn't perfect, but definitely better than how things are bow. . And it was the Iranian people who put the current regime in power.
Talk about an own goal

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

it's Iran

not every iranian is evil though


this current government just has to go, the easy way or the hard way

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

not every iranian is evil though


this current government just has to go, the easy way or the hard way

The government definitely has to go.
I wouldn't want to live like that.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Iran needs a revolution. The regime is killing their own people!

They would need weapons


Iran is using their own made Spy Drones.


Best to obey all laws
and stay alive.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

not every Iranian is evil though


this current government just has to go, the easy way or the hard way

Yes Nicky
they are Hard Workers

[Ninastar]

Religion of peace!

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Iran needs a revolution. The regime is killing their own people!

I agree with you Vanessa.

[bitontheslide]

Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. They are all the same

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Imo I honestly don't get why the Iranian citizens aren't kicking up a stink more about this.

Maybe they're music lovers?

They don't want to deaw attention to themselves, the regime doesn't take criticism well.