An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by
Mahsa Amini's death
, local media reported on Wednesday.
Toomaj Salehi
, 33, was arrested in Oct 2022 after publicly backing the
wave of demonstrations
which erupted a month earlier, triggered by the death in custody of 22-year-old Amini.
The Iranian Kurdish woman had been detained by the morality police in Tehran over an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's strict dress rules for women.
"Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court... sentenced Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth," the singer's lawyer said, quoted by the Shargh newspaper. The Revolutionary Court had accused Salehi of "assistance in sedition, assembly and collusion, propaganda against the system and calling for riots". "We will definitely appeal the verdict," his lawyer said.
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