Iran jails journalists who covered Mahsa Amini’s death for collaborating with US

The two journalists, Niloufar Hamedi, who broke the news of Ms Amini’s death for wearing her headscarf too loosely, and Elaheh Mohammadi, who wrote about her funeral, were sentenced to seven and six years in jail respectively, the judiciary news website Mizan reported on Sunday

A court in Iran has jailed two female journalists who covered the death of Mahsa Amini for ‘collaborating’ with the United States government (Markus Schreiber/AP)

A court in Iran has sentenced two female journalists to up to seven years in prison for “collaborating” with the United States government, among other charges, local reports said.

Both have been in jail for more than a year following their coverage of the death of Mahsa Aminiwhile in police custody in Sept. 2022.