WEB DESK: Iranian Supreme Court has sentenced popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after being convicted of blasphemy.
According to news report, Supreme Court of Iran accepts prosecutor’s objection sentenced to previous five-year imprisonment for Crimes Including Blasphemy.
It said “the case was reopened, and this time the defendant was sentenced to death for insulting the prophet”. The report added that the verdict was not final and can still be appealed.
The 37-year-old underground musician had been living in Istanbul since 2018 before Turkish police handed him over to Iran in December 2023.
Tataloo had also been sentenced to 10 years for promoting “prostitution” and in other cases was charged with disseminating “propaganda” against the Islamic republic and publishing “obscene content”
