Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Sunday after serving a one-year sentence for criticizing the Iranian regime, according to the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency.
Salehi had been sentenced to death in April by a revolutionary court on charges related to the unrest in the country from 2022 to 2023. However, Iran's Supreme Court overturned that sentence in June.
His songs celebrated the months-long protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who died in police custody after being arrested for allegedly wearing an 'improper' hijab.
Salehi was arrested in October 2022 after publicly supporting the nationwide protests. Amini's death in September 2022 triggered protests that posed the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic's clerical leaders in decades.
A United Nations fact-finding mission reported in March that Amini's death was unlawful and caused by 'physical violence in the custody of state authorities.' The report also highlighted that Iranian women continue to face systematic discrimination.
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