A court in Iran reduced two journalists ‘ sentences after reducing their words in response to reports of a woman’s death, which had contributed to Iran’s worst domestic unrest in decades.
Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, sentenced a year ago to 13 and 12 years in prison both, had their term reduced to five years, court director Asghar Jahangir told a news conference on Sunday.
In the appeal court, Jahangir claimed,” They were cleared of the cost of cooperation with the US.”
The two reporters were imprisoned for covering the death of Kurdish-Iranian journalist Mahsa Amini while she was being detained by the conscience authorities because they claimed she had broken Iranian Islamic dress code regulations.
In late 2022 and 2023, protests that led to her death grew to become Iran’s biggest regional turmoil since the 1979 revolution, which brought Iran’s priestly rulers to energy.
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