Reuters, Iranian rapper to be jailed for six years, avoiding death sentence – lawyer, 10 July 2023

“Well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who supported the protest movement that sprang up in Iran last year, has avoided a death sentence and been jailed for six years and three months, his lawyer told Monday’s edition of the daily newspaper Shargh.” There’s an online dimension to this case, as Salehi’s work was widely circulated across digital media

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