Singer, composer, and Sitar player Hamid Namjoo has been described as the 'Iranian Bob Dylan'.
Renowned Iranian singer and composer, Mohsen Namjoo, has been sentenced in absentia [he wisely moved to Vienna] to a five-year jail term for "ridiculing the Quran and dishonoring the holy book of the Muslims" in a song.
In September 2008, Namjoo apologized in a letter addressed to his mother, to clerics and the Iranian people, for having recorded the song and said he had never intended to release it.
Unlike his music, his apology fell on deaf ears. He was convicted and sentenced on June 9.
According to the Iranian Koran News Agency, the popular singer maintains he was the victim of an "unauthorized release" of his work on the Internet and planned to sue those who posted it. -- Al-Arabia
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