The Supreme Court of Iran has annulled this Saturday the death sentence issued against rapper Tomaj Salehi for supporting the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Aminithe young woman arrested for wearing the Islamic veil incorrectly, reported her lawyer Amir Raesian.

“The death sentence against Tomaj Salehi has been annulled. As expected, the Supreme Court avoided an irreparable miscarriage of justice,” Raeisian said on the social network X. The source stated that Salehi’s case will be sent to another court to be “considered” again and assured that the Supreme Court also considered that the initial sentence of six years and three months in prison against the musician was excessive.

Raeisian reported in late April that the first chamber of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court “sentenced Tomaj Salehi to the harshest punishment, death, on the charge of corruption on earth”for their support of the protests unleashed in 2022 by the death of Amini.

The land corruption charge covers a series of crimes against public security and Islamic morality, and in Salehi’s case encompasses charges such as “sedition, anti-establishment propaganda and inciting riots.” After the death sentence, the rapper’s entourage denounced on social networks the increase in “psychological pressure” against him and assured that they had cut off communication with the outside world in the Dastgerd prison in Isfahan.

The musician was arrested at the end of October 2022 on charges of “corruption on earth” and was sentenced in July 2023 to six years and three months in prison, a sentence that was rejected on appeal by the Supreme Court, which returned the case to a lower court to study the case again.

In November 2023 he was released on bail, but was arrested again just eleven days later. And in April he was sentenced to death, in a sentence that provoked strong international criticism. The rapper and dissident has already clashed with authorities in the past and was sentenced to six months in prison and a fine in January 2022 for “provoking violence and insurrection”, although the prison sentence was suspended.