Official media announced on Sunday, October 22, that two Iranian journalists who were imprisoned for helping to publicize the death of young Kurdish man Mahsa (Jina) Amini in September have been sentenced to prison.
Journalist Elaheh Mohammadi was sentenced to six years in prison for collaborating with the United States, five years for conspiring against the country’s security and one year for propaganda against the Islamic Republic, according to the Judicial Authority’s agency Mizan Online.
The same source added that journalist Niloofar Hamedi was sentenced to seven years in prison for collaborating with the United States, five years in prison for conspiring against the country’s security and one year in prison for propaganda against the Islamic Republic.
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“Propaganda” against the state
Ms. Mohammadi, 36, a reporter from Hammihan, and Ms. Hamedi, 31, a journalist from Shargh newspaper, have been detained in Evin Prison in Tehran since September 2022; Their trials began in May. The verdict can be appealed within 20 days, Mizan Online said.
The two women were jailed for covering up the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who was arrested in Tehran on September 16 by morality police who accused her of violating the Islamic Republic’s dress code especially women to wear the veil in public.
On November 8, they were accused of “propaganda” against the Islamic Republic and conspiring against national security.
The Iranian judiciary on Tuesday sentenced Mahsa Amini’s lawyer to one year in prison for “propaganda” against the state because, according to his defense, he “spoke to foreign and local media about the case.”