Canada Global(Web News) In Iran, journalists Nilofar Hamidi and Elha Mohammadi were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively for working against the state and national security.
According to Iran’s official news agency IRNA, the two journalists were convicted of colluding with the US government and engaging in activities against national security.
In the court decision, it has been said that in the first case, Nilofar Hamidi was sentenced to 7 years in prison and Elha Mohammadi to 6 years in prison for colluding with the enemy country America.
Similarly, the second charge of working “against national security” was given a five-year sentence and a one-year sentence for propagandizing against the regime.
It should be remembered that Nilofar Hamidi was detained when he took a picture of Mehsa Amini’s parents hugging each other in a hospital in Tehran, after which the incident of Mehsa Amini’s death in custody was highlighted all over the world. It happened.
Similarly, Ilha Mohammadi was arrested for covering the funeral of Mehsa Amini and the protest that followed in her Kurdish hometown of Saqiz.
Both female journalists have been given the right to appeal against this decision. However, the lawyers of both the journalists rejected the allegations.
According to Meezan News Agency of the Judiciary, the days spent in prison of the two previously arrested journalists will be deducted from the total sentence.
It should be remembered that in a statement released by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in October last year, these two female journalists were accused of being agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Iran’s Judiciary’s Meezan News Agency claimed that there was documentary evidence of female journalists’ deliberate connections with certain institutions and individuals affiliated with the US government.
It should be noted that Mehsa Amini went into a coma after allegedly being tortured and died in the custody of the moral police for not wearing the hijab properly, since then, protests have erupted across Iran.
