The imprisoned Iranian rapper Amir Hossein Maghsoudloobetter known as Prayingwho tried to commit suicide, was discharged from the hospital this Saturday and has been transferred again to prison.
“Tataloo, who was hospitalized yesterday, He was discharged And he returned to prison after completing the treatment and receiving the approval of a specialist doctor, ”said the Mizan agency, the Judicial Power of Iran.
Mizan had previously reported that the rapper was admitted to a medical center on Friday, after Try to commit suicide on Thursday night.
The ETEMAD newspaper reported some details of the incident on Saturday, indicating that The artist took about 30 pills And, due to poisoning, he was taken to the Loghman Hospital, in the center of the Iranian capital.
The 37 -year -old rapper, known as his artistic name Tataloo, It is a sentence of 10 years in prison For promoting “prostitution”, disseminating “propaganda” against the Islamic Republic and publishing “obscene content.”
Besides, It faces a death sentence by blasphemyafter supposedly “insult” the prophet Muhammad. This conviction has been temporarily annulled and the case has been sent to the Supreme Court for review.
The musician, known for its numerous tattoos and for combining rap, pop and r & bhe emigrated to Türkiye in 2018, after the Iranian authorities denied him the license to work in the music sector.
In December 2023, the Turkish police arrested him, He delivered it to Iran and, since then, he remains arrested.
Tataloo, considered one of the pioneers of Iranian rap, was Courted in the past by conservative politicians as a way of approaching Iranian young people.
The artist even held a televised meeting in 2017 with the then ultraconservative president of the Iranian Judiciary, Ebrahim Raisíwho presented himself as a candidate in the presidential elections of that year without success. Nevertheless, In the 2021 elections he managed to reach the Presidency and subsequently died in a helicopter accident in May 2024.
