Registration of Appeal Against the Death Sentence of Tomaj Salehi in the Supreme Court

Amir Reysian, one of the two lawyers for Tomaj Salehi, the imprisoned singer, states that the request for an "appeal against the death sentence" of his client has been registered in the Supreme Court. On Thursday, May 17, he mentioned that "according to the law, the case must be sent to the court in the coming days," and expressed hope that this institution would also rely on the laws to overturn the ruling against Mr. Salehi. This lawyer noted that Mr. Salehi has had only "one in-person meeting with his father" since the death sentence was issued, and stated: "Tomaj Salehi was banned from communication one day after the announcement of his preliminary ruling, and his in-person meetings have also been made conditional on filming." Amir Reysian further stated that prison officials have announced that they have a judicial order for "filming in-person meetings," while the Isfahan Revolutionary Court verbally informed them that such an order had not been issued. Mr. Reysian emphasized that they have "formally protested this issue in writing," and stressed that Tomaj Salehi's family "did not accept the condition of filming the meeting, and for this reason, Mr. Salehi currently has no possibility of in-person meetings." This lawyer reported on May 25 that this protesting singer was sentenced to death by the Isfahan Revolutionary Court for charges related to the year 1401. He stated: "Our main point is that despite [Tomaj Salehi] being among those eligible for the 1401 amnesty, he was not only not pardoned but was also sentenced to death." The news of the issuance of a death sentence for this protesting singer by the Revolutionary Court has sparked a widespread global outcry against this ruling, which continues. In this context, over a hundred cultural, civil, and artistic figures, including Sting, Margaret Atwood, and the band Coldplay, called for the immediate release of Tomaj Salehi, the protesting Iranian singer and rapper, in a letter last week.