
Iranian Pop Singer Amir Tataloo Sentenced To Death For Insulting Prophet
"The Supreme Court accepted the prosecutor's objection" to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, reformist newspaper Etemad reported online.
It said "the case was reopened, and this time the defendant was sentenced to death for insulting the prophet", referring to Islam's Prophet Mohammed.
The report added that the verdict was not final and can still be appealed.
The 37-year-old underground musician had been living in Istanbul since 2018 before Turkish police handed him over to Iran in December 2023.
He has been in detention in Iran since then. Also Read | Viral Video: Iranian woman's bold act of defiance – removes cleric's turban, wears it as Hijab
Tataloo had also been sentenced to 10 years for promoting "prostitution" and in other cases was charged with disseminating "propaganda" against the Islamic republic and publishing "obscene content".
The heavily tattooed singer, known for combining rap, pop and R&B, was previously courted by conservative politicians as a way of reaching out to young, liberal-minded Iranians. Also Read | Iranian girl goes missing soon after stripping to underwear at university to protest against Islamic dress code
Tataloo even held an awkward televised meeting in 2017 with ultra-conservative Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who later died in a helicopter crash.
In 2015, Tataloo published a song in support of Iran's nuclear programme that later unravelled in 2018 during the first US presidency of Donald Trump. Legal Disclaimer:
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