Shervin Hajipour receives a sentence of three years of imprisonment and supplementary penalties.
5-March-2024
Category: Freedom of Expression
March 2, 2024
News Group: Freedom of Speech –
Breathing in Confinement: Shervin Hajipour, an Iranian singer, has been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to three years and eight months of imprisonment, two years of ban on leaving the country, and other penalties.
According to “Breathing in Confinement,” the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the Revolutionary Court sentenced Shervin Hajipour to imprisonment for releasing the song “Baraye” during the 2022 uprising.
As per the verdict published by Mr. Hajipour, he has been sentenced to eight months of imprisonment for the charge of “propaganda against the system” and three years of imprisonment for the charge of “enticing and inciting people to disrupt the country’s security,” taking into account the days of his previous detention. Therefore, by enforcing Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, the most severe punishment, namely three years of imprisonment, will be executed against him.
The verdict states, “Since the court did not find the primary prescribed punishment in the Islamic Penal Code sufficient for the correction of the offender,” he is sentenced to “two years of travel ban, collecting the achievements of the Islamic Revolution in the cultural, scientific, and artistic fields and publishing them on social media in his own name, studying and summarizing the book ‘Women’s Law in Islam’ and the book ‘Women in the Mirror of Beauty and Majesty,’ each up to thirty pages separately and handwritten for inclusion in the case file and submission to the enforcement unit and publication on social media, and composing music about the crimes of the US against humanity, collecting cases of human rights violations by the United States in recent century and publishing them on social media, and participating in behavioral skills and knowledge training courses in the field of art.”
Shervin Hajipour was detained and transferred to the Intelligence Office in Sari during the nationwide protests of 2022 after the release of the song “Baraye.”
Finally, on October 4 of the same year, he was released on bail of one hundred million Tomans.
It is worth mentioning that at the fifty-fifth Grammy Awards, the song “Baraye,” by Shervin Hajipour, was announced as the winner of the special prize for “Song for Social Change.”