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.