DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian courtroom cleared two jailed journalists of collaborating with the USA, and diminished their sentences over reviews a few girl’s dying that had helped set off protests in 2022, Iran’s worst home unrest for many years.
Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, sentenced a yr in the past to 13 and 12 years in jail respectively, had their phrases diminished to 5 years, judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir instructed a information convention on Sunday.
“They were acquitted of the charge of collaboration with the U.S. in the appeal court,” Jahangir mentioned.
The 2 journalists had been jailed for his or her protection of the dying in custody of Kurdish-Iranian girl Mahsa Amini whereas she was being held by the morality police over accusations she breached Iran’s Islamic gown code legal guidelines.
Her dying sparked nationwide protests in late 2022 and 2023 that grew into Iran’s largest home unrest because the 1979 revolution that introduced Iran’s clerical rulers to energy.
