Tehran, Iran:
An Iranian courtroom has sentenced well-liked singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, generally known as Tataloo, to dying on attraction after he was convicted of blasphemy, native media reported on Sunday.
“The Supreme Courtroom accepted the prosecutor’s objection” to a earlier five-year jail time period on offences together with blasphemy, reformist newspaper Etemad reported on-line.
It mentioned “the case was reopened, and this time the defendant was sentenced to dying for insulting the prophet”, referring to Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.
The report added that the decision was not last and may nonetheless be appealed.
The 37-year-old underground musician had been residing in Istanbul since 2018 earlier than Turkish police handed him over to Iran in December 2023.
He has been in detention in Iran since then.
Tataloo had additionally been sentenced to 10 years for selling “prostitution” and in different instances was charged with disseminating “propaganda” towards the Islamic republic and publishing “obscene content material”.
The closely tattooed singer, identified for combining rap, pop and R&B, was beforehand courted by conservative politicians as a method of reaching out to younger, liberal-minded Iranians.
Tataloo even held an ungainly televised assembly in 2017 with ultra-conservative Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who later died in a helicopter crash.
In 2015, Tataloo revealed a track in help of Iran’s nuclear programme that later unravelled in 2018 in the course of the first US presidency of Donald Trump.
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