Iran’s supreme courtroom has overturned Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi’s dying sentence on costs linked to the nation’s 2022-23 interval of unrest, his lawyer wrote in a submit on the X social media platform on Saturday.
“The dying sentence of #Toomaj_Salehi was overturned and primarily based on the attraction determination … of the Supreme Court docket, the case shall be referred to (one other) department for consideration,” lawyer Amir Raisian wrote on X.
“As anticipated, the Supreme Court docket averted an irreparable judicial error,” Raisian mentioned within the social media submit.
There was no rapid official affirmation of the ruling.
Salehi’s songs supported protests sparked by the dying in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a younger Kurdish Iranian girl arrested within the capital Tehran for allegedly carrying an “improper” hijab.
Salehi, 33, was initially arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in assist of the months-long countrywide protests.
In late 2023, simply two weeks after being launched on bail, Salehi was arrested once more after publishing a video by which he talks about being tortured in jail. He mentioned his head and face had been often overwhelmed, and he suffered fractures to his fingers and legs.
Supporters of jailed dissident Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi have launched this marketing campaign on social media to convey consideration to his case, saying he’s susceptible to execution.
In April, an Iranian courtroom sentenced him to dying on the cost of “spreading corruption on Earth,” Raisian mentioned on the time. It is a cost typically used in opposition to political dissidents.
After that sentencing, U.S. State Division deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel mentioned the US condemns the Iranian regime’s use of the dying sentence as a “software to suppress individuals’s human rights and basic freedoms.”
Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi talks to CBC Information about what’s occurring in his nation.
