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After the death sentence on Toomaj Salehi, a 33-year-old Iranian rapper who opposed the regime, hundreds of people gathered on Sunday April 28 at Place de la Bastille in Paris to call for his release.
Place de la Bastille this Sunday April 28. It’s 3 p.m. The slogans “Free Toomaj”, “Release all political prisoners,” “Stop the executions” resonate under the first clearing of the day, like a symbol. More than 500 people gathered to demand the release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death four days earlier by the Revolutionary Court of Isfahan for “corruption on Earth”, main charge for opponents of the regime. The announcement of the conviction of this great figure of the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement, which emerged a few days after the death of Mahsa Amini, on September 16, 2022, sparked a strong reaction, and a lot of anger.
In a few hours, around twenty associations and non-governmental organizations united in France around a single fight and called for a rally. “We are together against the death penalty, to demand the release of Toomaj and all the others,” confides Mona Armande, member of the Iran Justice association, happy to see that the appeal
