Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi released from prison

His songs eulogised months-long protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman arrested for allegedly wearing an "improper" hijab that flouted Iran's Islamic dress code.

Salehi was arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of the nationwide protests.

Amini's death in September 2022 unleashed protests that posed the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic's clerical leaders in decades.

A United Nations fact-finding mission said in March that Amini's death was unlawful and was caused by "physical violence in the custody of state authorities". 

It said Iranian women still suffered systematic discrimination.