Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, two women journalists who reported about Mahsa Amini’s death and have been in jail since September 2022, will stand trial at the end of May, according to the Iranian judiciary. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Tehran Province Journalists Association (TPJA), in demanding that the trial be held in open court and renews its call on the Iranian authorities to release all journalists and media workers held behind bars.
The undersigned international human rights and civil society organisations demand an end to the deliberate violence, arrest, threats, and charges against…