Six months on from the start of mass protests following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, 15 journalists are still being held behind bars for their coverage of the civil unrest. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Tehran Province Journalists Association (TPJA) in calling on the Iranian authorities to free all journalists and media workers imprisoned, stop the media crackdown and ensure the free flow of information.
Two women freelance journalists and a jailed photojournalist’s mother have been ordered to begin serving prison sentences in the past month in Iran. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the systematic use of imprisonment to harass all those associated with the provision of independent news and information, including women.
Farangis Mazloom, the mother of Soheil Arabi, a photojournalist awarded the RSF Press Freedom Prize in the citizen-journalist category in 2017, was told by the Evin prison prosecutor’s office for sentence enforcement on 20 October that she must begin serving the one-year jail sentence she received in March on charges “meeting and plotting against national security” and