Mehdi Yarrahi, a distinguished Iranian pop music composer and singer, has obtained a verdict of two years and eight months of imprisonment together with 74 lashes.
Yarrahi’s legal professional, Zahra Minooei, confirmed the sentencing and defined that, in response to Islamic penal regulation, essentially the most extreme a part of the punishment, one yr of imprisonment, can be enforced.
Minooei additionally revealed that Yarrahi is at the moment on non permanent launch on bail amounting to 150 billion rials (roughly $300,000). This comes after the legal professional’s announcement in October concerning Yarrahi’s non permanent launch from Evin Prison, the place he had been detained since August 28. Yarrahi gained consideration for releasing protest works throughout the 2022 Iranian folks’s rebellion towards the Islamic Republic.
The singer’s detention, triggered by the discharge of his protest music video titled “Rousarieto” (Your Headscarf), sparked widespread reactions from activists and public figures. In a present of solidarity, social media customers shared dance movies that includes the controversial track.
According to Mizan News Agency, the media outlet of the Iranian judiciary, a authorized case had been initiated towards Mehdi Yarrahi for releasing the track. The media outlet labeled the track as “unlawful and opposite to the ethics and norms of Islamic society.”
Yarrahi was accused of varied costs, together with “producing, sending, distributing, and publishing obscene and immoral content material via pc and telecommunication methods, encouraging folks in direction of corruption and obscenity,” in addition to “propaganda towards the system.”
The star’s conviction comes at a time when different singers, corresponding to Toomaj Salehi and Saman Yasin, have been imprisoned for months as a consequence of their assist for the rebellion.