Iran sentences pop star Tataloo to death for insulting Prophet Muhammad

Iranian singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, has been awarded death sentence on account of blasphemy. Tataloo had also been sentenced to 10 years for promoting "prostitution" and in other cases was charged with disseminating "propaganda" against the Islamic republic and publishing "obscene content".

An Iranian court said, “The Supreme Court accepted the prosecutor’s objection” to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, reformist newspaper Etemad reported online.

It said “the case was reopened, and this time the defendant was sentenced to death for insulting the prophet”, referring to Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.