The main judicial authority of Iran has forgiven two journalists who discovered the death of a young woman in police custody who triggered national protests in 2022, the media of the Judiciary of the Judiciary Mizan He said Tuesday.
Nilogo Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi had been sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively by a revolutionary court in October 2023 for their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurda-Iraní woman, under the custody of the moral police for renting The presentation of Iran’s. Strict clothing code.
“After the approval of the supreme leader Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, of a list of pardons that prepared the head of the Judiciary, these individuals were forgiven.” Mizan That said, the pardons were applied on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Last year, both journalists were temporarily released after 17 months in prison, and then acquitted of the position of “collaboration with the United States” in an appeal court.
Other positions such as “collapse against national security” and “propaganda against the regime” passed, but now they have been authorized by forgiveness and the judicial case of journalists is now closed.
The protests that followed Amini’s death led the worst disturbances in Iran from the revolution.
The authorities blamed the United States for promoting demonstrations, which Washington denied.