Iranian Singer Receives 74 Lashes for Protest Song

Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been flogged 74 times as part of a legal agreement to conclude a criminal case against him, his lawyer confirmed on Wednesday.

Yarrahi was convicted in January 2024 for releasing Your Headscarf (Roo Sarito), a protest song commemorating the first anniversary of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

The musician’s one-year prison sentence had been converted to electronic ankle monitoring, which ended in December.

Before receiving the punishment, Yarrahi said, “I am ready to receive the sentence of 74 lashes, and while I condemn this inhuman torture, I make no request to cancel it.”

His lawyer, Zahra Minouei, confirmed on social media that “the last part of the sentences issued by the Tehran Revolutionary Court had been administered.”