Iran’s High Court Authority pardoned two journalists who revealed the death of a young woman in police custody who mobilized protests across the country in 2022, Judashi news store. Balance Said Tuesday.
Nilofar Hadi and Alhaha Mohammadi were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison by an Iranian revolutionary court in October 2023, respectively, which allegedly covered the death of a Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahasa Amini, in the custody of a moral police. Was violated. Hard clothing code.
“After the approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenea, the head of the judiciary was forgiven, they were forgiven,” Balance He added that the pardon was applied on the 46th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Last year, the two journalists were temporarily released after 17 months of imprisonment, and was later acquitted of “cooperation with the United States” in the appeal court.
Other allegations such as “alliance against national security” and “propaganda against the government remain, but now it has been cleared by pardon and journalists’ court case is now closed.”
The protests that led to the death of Amini resulted in the worst unrest in Iran after the revolution.
Authorities accused of ending the protest, which Washington refused.
