'Iranian Bob Dylan' sentenced to five years for singing Qur'an

Mohsen Namjoo has been given a five-year prison sentence for performing passages from the Muslim holy book to musicMohsen Namjoo, a singer-songwriter who has been described as the "Iranian Bob Dylan", has been sentenced to five years in prison for recording music that "dishonours" passages from the Qur'an. The sentencing was in absentia, as Namjoo lives in Vienna.The musician was convicted for "his unconventional singing" of the Muslim holy book, according to the Etemad Melli newspaper. Namjoo "...

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