Iran sentences 2 journalists covered murder of Gina Amini to 6 years prison
Iran's appeals court sentenced Alaha Mohammadi and Nilufar Hamedi, the 2 journalists who followed the murder of Kurdish teenager Gina Amini, to six years in prison each.
The lawyers of Nilufar Hamedi, a journalist for the "Sharq" network, and Alaha Mohammadi, a journalist for the newspaper "Ham Mehan", announced that their clients were sentenced to 6 years in prison each at the Court of Appeal in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Journalists Nilufar Hamedi and Alaha Mohammadi had previously been sentenced to 25 years in prison in the first phase of the trial, but were acquitted of the charges against them, and the Tehran Court of Appeal reduced their prison sentences to six years each.
The Iranian judiciary originally sentenced Alaha Mohammadi to six years in prison, while Nilufar Hamidi was sentenced to seven years in prison, each sentenced to five years in prison for collusion and conspiracy against state security, and one year for "propaganda against the regime."
It is noteworthy that Alaha Mohammadi, 37, and Nilufar Hamedi, 31, were released on bail after more than a year in Tehran's Evin prison for covering the killing of the Kurdish young woman Gina Amini in mid-September 2022, by the so-called Iranian "morality police", and her murder sparked an uprising with women's leadership and the slogan "Women, life, freedom" that swept E. Kurdistan and Iran.
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