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Iran’s judiciary mentioned Monday it had launched new proceedings in opposition to two journalists for posing with out the necessary scarf upon their launch after greater than a yr in jail.
Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi had been launched Sunday from Tehran’s Evin jail, the place that they had been held for his or her protection of the September 2022 demise in custody of a younger lady which sparked nationwide protests.
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, had been arrested for an alleged breach of strict costume guidelines for ladies.
Images of the 2 journalists smiling and holding palms outdoors the jail circulated on social media following their launch.
The judiciary’s Mizan Online web site famous the pictures proven “the ladies with out hijab”, which has been made necessary for ladies in public areas since shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.
Mizan mentioned “a brand new case was filed in opposition to the defendants” in consequence.
The phrases of the journalists’ launch on bail bar them from touring overseas, Mizan mentioned on Sunday.
In October, the judiciary mentioned that they had been discovered responsible of collaboration with Iran’s arch enemy the United States, conspiring in opposition to state safety and “propaganda” in opposition to the Islamic republic.
Mohammadi, 36, was subsequently given six years in jail and Hamedi, 31, was handed a seven-year time period for the collaboration offense, mentioned Mizan on the time.
The two additionally acquired five-year sentences every for the conspiracy prices and one yr for propaganda, mentioned Mizan, including the sentences can be served concurrently.
The two have since appealed their sentences and Tasnim information company has mentioned they “will stay out of jail till the appeals court docket comes to a decision”.
Hamedi was arrested lower than every week after Amini’s demise, when she went to the hospital the place Amini was being handled and posted a photograph of the grieving household on social media.
Mohammadi was detained after going to Amini’s hometown of Saqez, within the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to cowl her funeral which changed into an indication.
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