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Iranian Grammy Award winner Shervin Hajipour has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison following his artistic opposition to Iran’s crackdown on protesters in 2022. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter said on his Instagram page on Friday that he had also been banned from travelling abroad for two years. In addition to the jail time, a court ordered him to produce music about “America’s crimes against humanity.” There were initially no comments from the judiciary about the ruling. Hajipour touched millions of people worldwide with his ballad “Baraye” (“For”) during demonstration…

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