Iranian court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy after Turkey hands him over

[muriel_volestrangler]

This is one of the problems with authoritarian states - they'll hand people over for death, just for sucking up to another authoritarian regime:

An Iranian court has sentenced the popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy, according to local media reports.

“The supreme court accepted the prosecutor’s objection” to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, the reformist newspaper Etemad reported on Sunday.

It said “the case was reopened, and this time the defendant was sentenced to death for insulting the prophet”, referring to Islam’s prophet Muhammad.
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The 37-year-old underground musician had been living in Istanbul since 2018 before Turkish police handed him over to Iran in December 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/19/iranian-court-sentences-pop-star-tataloo-to-death-for-blasphemy

People currently sheltering from an unjust death sentence in the USA must now be wondering when their enemies will bribe Trump to hand them over.

[GiqueCee]

1. If you think...

... for one moment that such malignant evil could not possibly happen here, you're not paying attention.
Religious fanaticism and savagery simmers just below the surface of supposedly "ordinary" Christian minds, and the mob mentality is always ready to explode in the congregations of the mega-churches; "pastors" like Kevin Swanson, and other with similarly malevolent tendencies, just have to say the word. Or just obliquely suggest it, and all Hell will break loose.
Sprinkle that with a little Christian Nationalist fairy dust, and boy Howdy, you gots yo'self a rip-snortin' Holy War!
When they go that low, y'all can go as high as you want, but you ain't gonna escape the self-righteous wrath of the sanctimonious worshippers of that Old Time Religion, or the vindictive, thunderbolt slingin' Old Testament gawd that spawned it.
You've been warned.

[JoseBalow]

2. "In 2015, Tataloo published a song in support of Iran's nuclear programme "

Good riddance