Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian dissident rapper and activist, has been released from prison, according to a statement issued ...

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has avoided a death sentence and been unexpectedly set free from prison after nearly two years, according to his family.

Joint statement by the International Counsel Team at Doughty Street Chambers, Index on Censorship and Human Rights Foundation ...

Salehi, 32, had been held in the Dastgerd prison in the city of Isfahan for 753 days in total ... a young Kurdish-Iranian woman who was detained for wearing her headscarf improperly and later ...

Months after escaping Iran’s death penalty and seeing all the charges against him dismissed, rapper Toomaj Salehi finally ...

The ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement inspired protests across the world, including by Iranian students in Rome Credit: Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images A protest in support of Iranian ...

Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death earlier this year after releasing a song in support of the Mahsa Amini protests, though ...