Zahra Minooee, attorney at law, announced that Mehdi Yarrahi’s imprisonment has been converted to electronic monitoring.
Zahra Minooee, the lawyer for Mehdi Yarrahi, says the one-year imprisonment of this protesting singer has been converted to electronic ankle monitoring with a movement radius of one thousand meters due to his illness and need for medical care.
According to Ms. Minooee, Mehdi Yarrahi was sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court to 2 years and 8 months of discretionary imprisonment and 74 lashes, with one year of this sentence being the most severe punishment to be executed. He was arrested last year after a new rendition of one of his works titled ‘Roo Sari To’ during a raid by security forces at his residence, which sparked significant reactions. In October 2022, Mehdi Yarrahi released the song ‘Woman’ in support of public protests following the death of Mahsa Zhina Amini in the custody of the morality police. ‘Woman’ was the second work released by Yarrahi in support of the 2022 protests. In the same year, he had also released the works ‘Enough of the Cage’ and ‘Song of Life’ in support of Iranian women.
