...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...against popular rapper Toomaj Salehi who was incarcerated
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for backing nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, his lawyer said on Saturday.
"Salehi's death sentence was overturned," the rapper's lawyer Amir Raisian said in a post on X, adding that the Islamic Theocratic
Republic's top court had ordered a retrial.
In April, an Iranian court sentenced Salehi to death for the capital offence of "corruption on earth", Raisian said at the time.
The rapper was also found guilty of "assistance in sedition, assembly and collusion, propaganda against the state and calling for riots", the lawyer said.
Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing demonstrations which had erupted a month earlier, triggered by Amini's death in police custody.
Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, was detained by the morality police in Tehran over an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's strict dress rules for women.
"The Supreme Court prevented an irreparable judicial error," Raisian said, adding that the court also ruled that Salehi's "previous sentence (6 years and three months) was also without compliance with the rules of a multiplicity of crimes."
The months-long protests sparked by Amini's death saw hundreds of people killed, including dozens of security personnel.
Thousands were arrested as authorities moved to quell what they branded foreign-instigated "riots".