The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency said early on Monday that Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was freed from prison on Sunday after serving a one-year term for criticizing the Iranian regime.
A revolutionary court had sentenced Salehi to death in April on accusations related to unrest in the country in 2022–2023, but the Iranian Supreme Court overturned that decision in June.
The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was imprisoned for reportedly wearing an inappropriate hijab that violated Iran’s Islamic dress code, in police detention provoked months of protests, which his songs praised.
After publicly endorsing the nationwide protests, Salehi was jailed in October 2022.
The protests that followed Amini’s murder in September 2022 presented the largest obstacle to the clerical authorities of the Islamic Republic in decades.
under March, a United Nations fact-finding team declared that Amini’s death was illegal and the result of physical abuse while under the care of state officials. Iranian women continue to face systemic discrimination, it added.
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