Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively. Lawyers for the two journalists have rejected the charges.
Two journalists have been jailed for their coverage of protests sparked by the death of a woman in Iran last year, Iranian state media has reported. Mahsa Amini, 22 died while in police custody after she was alleged to have violated the strict Islamic dress code, with her death causing months of mass demonstrations in Iran and across the world.
Then each five years in prison for acting against the national security and each one year in prison for propaganda against the system,' the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Why they were detained Hamedi was detained after she took a picture of Amini's parents hugging each other outside a hospital in Tehran, where their daughter lay in a coma. Mohammedi was taken into custody after she covered Amini's funeral in her Kurdish hometown of Saqez.
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