The Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was recently sentenced to death, has been banned from making phone calls from prison, one of his lawyers has said. No contact with the musician is possible, his defence lawyer Amir Raisian said on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. The reason for the ban is said to be the activity on Salehi's social media channels, which are operated by relatives. Salehi's death sentence, which was handed down in connection with his support for the mass anti-government protest