Index on Censorship, Human Rights Foundation and Doughty Street Chambers make submission on behalf of rapper’s family
Decision welcomed by Toomaj Salehi’s family, Index on Censorship, Human Rights Foundation and Salehi’s international legal team
Facing “harshest punishment” for her activism,
Atena Farghadani must be released immediately
Musician faces death sentence after three years of judicial harassment, including arrest, imprisonment and torture
Toomaj Salehi, who was beaten and tortured in jail, has just 20 days to appeal charges of “corruption on Earth”
Protests over Toomaj Salehi’s sentence have rightfully begun, but his is not an isolated case
The atrocity deniers are everywhere and we need to scream over them with the truth
Index on Censorship has issued a joint statement with ARC and PEN America condemning a decision by an Iranian revolutionary court
Our weekly newsletter leads on the announcement of a sentence we all feared for rapper Toomaj Salehi
Our 2023 Freedom of Expression Art Award winner was jailed for the power of his words. Now he faces the death sentence