Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian singer and musician known for his song encouraging women to remove their hijabs, was lashed 74 ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, a popular Iranian musician, was arrested in a 2023 crackdown after releasing a song that praised women who ...

An anonymous official told Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency that the flogging came as punishment for possessing alcohol - ...

A popular singer has been given a severe flogging over the lyrics in one of his song. Mehdi Yarrahi’s sang ‘take off your ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the ...

A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that he was willing to ...

An attorney for Iranian musician and singer Mehdi Yarrahi said that the dissident artist's sentence of 74 lashes was carried ...

Yarrahi’s case has sparked renewed calls from human rights organizations for Iran to abolish flogging and end its crackdown ...

Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashings over protest anthem supporting hijab removal which was released in 2023 which got him arrested.

Yarrahi, 42, was arrested in August 2023 and then sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary Court to two years and eight months ...

March 6 (UPI) --Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the Middle Eastern country's draconian hijab laws, his lawyer ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, a famous Iranian protest singer, was given 74 lashes in a deal to end a criminal case against him. The case ...