Elahe Mohammadi — like other journalists — is accused of being a “foreign agent” and helped spark the extremely bloody months-long mass mobilizations with her coverage.
Iranian journalist Elnaz Mohammadi, an executive of the reformist newspaper Ham Mihan, has been released on bail and under restrictive conditions after a week in prison, the media outlet she works for announced on Sunday.
“Ham Mihan’s head of social reporting, Elnaz Mohammadi, has been released on parole from Tehran’s Evin prison,” the newspaper said, accompanying the news with a photo of her after her release from the infamous detention center.
On February 5, Iranian media reported that he was arrested after being summoned by a prosecutor, without giving further details.
Her sister Elahe, a journalist for the same newspaper, is facing criminal charges for “propaganda against the system” and “conspiracy against national security” because of the way she covered the Makhsa Amini case. He has been in custody since the end of September, also in Evin.
On the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Republic, yesterday Saturday, the clerical regime announced the release of “a large number” of prisoners, including French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelka, who was arrested in Iran in June 2019 and sentenced to serve five years in prison for undermining national security.
According to a collective body of journalists in Tehran, 10 professionals in the industry remain imprisoned because of their coverage of the mass protests sparked in mid-September by the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Maksha Amini, at the hands of the morality police, who had arrested her for violating of the extremely strict dress code for women in the Islamic Republic.
Elahe Mohammadi — like other journalists — is accused of being a “foreign agent” and helped spark the extremely bloody months-long mass mobilizations with her coverage.
She and her newspaper reject the indictment.
Iranian authorities impose strict censorship on the media. In the ranking of countries by the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) based on freedom of the press, Iran is found in the last positions.
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