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Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Released after Death Sentence Overturned

People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
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Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Released after Death Sentence Overturned

People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Dec. 1 after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported early on Monday.

Salehi had been sentenced to death in April by a revolutionary court on charges linked to unrest in the country from 2022 to 2023, although Iran's Supreme Court overturned that sentence in June.

His songs eulogized months-long protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman arrested for allegedly wearing an "improper" headscarf that flouted Iran's religious dress code.

Salehi was arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of the nationwide protests.

Amini's death in September 2022 unleashed protests that posed the biggest challenge to the Iran’s clerical leaders in decades.

A United Nations fact-finding mission said in March that Amini's death was unlawful and was caused by "physical violence in the custody of state authorities". It added that Iranian women still suffer systematic discrimination.

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Suicide Blast Near Kabul Government Offices Kills Attacker, One Other

An Afghan boy sells boiled eggs along a path near Qargha lake on the outskirts of Kabul on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
An Afghan boy sells boiled eggs along a path near Qargha lake on the outskirts of Kabul on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
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Suicide Blast Near Kabul Government Offices Kills Attacker, One Other

An Afghan boy sells boiled eggs along a path near Qargha lake on the outskirts of Kabul on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
An Afghan boy sells boiled eggs along a path near Qargha lake on the outskirts of Kabul on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

A suicide bomber killed one person and wounded three in an attack near government offices in Kabul on Thursday, an official spokesman said, the second explosion in Afghanistan this week.
The attacker was also killed.
Security guards had identified him and shot him as he approached the intended target, the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, detonating the explosives, Reuters quoted the Interior Ministry as saying.
No group has taken responsibility for the attack, which took place in a busy part of the capital housing administrative and government offices, and foreign embassies including the US Embassy. That site has been vacant since American and other foreign forces withdrew from the country in 2021.
The Taliban took over the country in 2021 and said it would restore security to the war-torn nation. But attacks have continued, many of them claimed by the local arm of the militant ISIS group.
This attack is the second this week after a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body outside a bank in northeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least five people.
Militants from the Afghan branches of ISIS have waged an insurgency against the Taliban since they returned to power.