Toomaj Salehi

Rapper Toomaj was briefly arrested in September 2021. Denied legal representation, in January 2022 he was given a 6-month suspended sentence for “insulting leadership” and “propaganda.” He was arrested again in October and put in solitary confinement and tortured. In July 2023, he was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison. He was released on bail in November but rearrested and sentenced to another year.