Supreme Court overturns rapper’s death sentence

A jailed Iranian rapper sentenced to death for supporting anti-government protests has had his sentence overturned on appeal by the Supreme Court, his lawyer has said.Toomaj Salehi was arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of protests that had exploded across Iran.His lawyer, Amir Raesian, said the Supreme Court has now ordered a retrial, and that the judges decided that Salehi’s previous prison sentence of six years and three months went against Iran’s multiple-offences rules, and was in excess of the legal punishment.Salehi, 22, was initially sentenced to…