Iran rapper banned from phone calls after death sentence: supporters

Kosar Eftekhari, an Iranian student blinded by the Iranian police in Iran, participates in a rally against a death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper after he was accused of singing pro-women led protests in Berlin, Germany on Sunday, April 28, 2024.

His lawyers plan to appeal the verdict while he remains jailed in Dastgerd prison outside the central city of Isfahan.“Toomaj’s phone privileges at Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison were cut off. This means he has zero contact with his family and the outside world,” said the artist’s official account on X, formerly Twitter, which has been run by an administrator since his incarceration.

Protests were held across the world at the weekend in cities including in Toronto, Paris and Sydney, urging Iran to spare the rapper’s life and release him.Toomaj was arrested while in hiding in October 2022 during the peak of the protest movement sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old arrested by Iran’s morality police for an alleged breach of strict dress rules for women.

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