Iranian rapper Tamaj Salehi has been released from prison after being sentenced to death for protesting against the country’s government.
According to balance According to the news agency, Salehi was released from custody on December 1 after serving his one-year sentence.
Salehi was sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in April on charges linked to unrest in the country from 2022 to 2023, although Iran’s Supreme Court overturned the sentence in June.
Her music supported protests in September 2022 following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody after she was detained for “improperly” wearing a hijab to go against Iran’s dress code. Sky News.
The protests that followed Amini’s death were widespread and Salehi was “one of the leaders of the riots who promoted the violence”. Iran International At this time
He was jailed in October 2022 after publicly supporting nationwide protests.
The following year he was sentenced to six years in prison but was then released on bail before being arrested on further charges.
Then in April 2024, he was sentenced to death.
In Spain, France, Germany, the US, Australia and London, people took to the streets wearing masks of his face in protest.
In May, more than 100 artists, including Coldplay and “The Handmaid’s Tale” writer Margaret Atwood, signed a joint statement calling for Salehi’s release from prison.
“We stand in solidarity with Tamaj Salehi,” the statement said.
“No artist should be subject to any form of judicial harassment, much less the death penalty, for exercising his right to freedom of expression,” it added.