The Supreme Court has accepted an appeal by the rapper Saman Seydi Yasin against his death sentence. 

In recent weeks, Iran has handed death sentences to several anti-government protesters for what it labeled to be "riots." The protests were initially focused on the country's morality police before growing into a wider anti-regime movement.

Yasin accused of 'enmity against God'

The judiciary's Mizan news agency said the musician would now face a retrial.

The Iranian Kurdish rapper, who has tackled inequality and oppression in his work, was accused of "enmity against God," attempting to kill security forces, firing a gun into the air and setting a trash bin on fire.

"Where in the world have you seen a loved one's life being taken in a trash bin?" his mother said in a video posted on social media as she pleaded for help to save her son.

Mizan initially said Yasin and another protester, Mohammad Ghobadlou, would be retried. But it later issued a statement that said that Ghobadlou's appeal had been rejected and only Yasin's was accepted.