Iranian court sentenced Two years and eight months in prison and 74 lashes for singer Mehdi Yarrahi for publishing a song in which she called on women to take off their veils and supported the protests caused by the death Mahsa Amini in September 2022.

“My client, Mr. Mehdi Yarrahi, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison and 74 lashes in accordance with the verdict of the 26th Revolutionary Court of Tehran,” he said on Tuesday. Zahra Minway, one of his lawyers on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

Minway noted that the singer is currently free on bail of about $300,000 and could serve at least one year in prison.

“I am free and this is my blood. Do not doubt my path, your faith,” Yarrahi wrote on his X account shortly after the verdict was announced.

The musician was arrested at the end of August for “publishing an illegal song that challenges the customs and morals of Islamic society“, as reported by the judiciary agency Mizan at the time.

The arrest occurred three days after the song was published “Rosarito” means “your veil” in Persian.in which she calls on Iranian women to remove their hijab and shows her support for the protests that rocked the country in 2022.

“The optional veil is just one of the serious demands of the oppressed people of Iran, who have sacrificed many precious lives for achieve freedom and democracy read before the start of the nearly four-minute music video he posted.

In the video women without veils dance and in the song sounds “woman, life, freedom”, protest slogan.

The popular pop musician released the song two weeks before the anniversary. death of Mahsa Amini after being arrested by Iran’s so-called morality police for improperly wearing the Islamic hijab.

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Her death sparked strong protests with slogans like “Women, Life, Freedom”, which for months called for the end of the Islamic Republic and died down after a strong crackdown caused 500 people killed, thousands arrested, eight protesters executed. one of them is public.

(EFE)