{"id":3592,"date":"2024-04-30T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2024-04-30T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:32:24","slug":"iranian-community-protests-in-london-over-death-sentence-for-popular-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=3592","title":{"rendered":"Iranian community protests in London over death sentence for popular rapper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Story by Harry Stedman, PA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Demonstrators have protested in central London against a death sentence given to a popular rapper in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the Iranian community wore masks depicting the face of&nbsp;Toomaj Salehi and erected a mock gallows outside Downing Street on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 33-year-old was sentenced to death by an Iranian court earlier this week for his support of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which developed after protests in Iran in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protests broke out after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in the custody of the country\u2019s morality police after being detained for wearing her hijab too loosely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salehi is known for using his lyrics to criticise the Islamic Republic of Iran, highlighting corruption, poverty, state executions and the killing of protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Placards and flags, including one reading \u201cFree Toomaj Salehi \u2013 Death sentence for rapping\u201d, were carried with Iranian flags by the protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other protests for Salehi have taken place around the world over the weekend, including in Spain, the US and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"share-this\">\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\"\nclass=\"twitter-share-button\"\ndata-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a>\n                    <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>\n                    <div class=\"facebook-share-button\">\n                        <iframe\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fcodir.net%2F%3Fp%3D3592&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=200&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=21\"\nscrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\noverflow:hidden; width:200px; height:21px;\"\nallowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Harry Stedman, PA Demonstrators have protested in central London against a death sentence given to a popular rapper in Iran. Members of the Iranian community wore masks depicting the face of&nbsp;Toomaj Salehi and erected a mock gallows outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}