IRAN TRIES FEMALE JOURNALISTS WHO REPORTED ON MAHSA AMINI’S DEATH

Two Iranian female journalists who helped break the story of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody in September have gone on trial before a Revolutionary Court.

Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi have been charged with “collaborating with the hostile US government” and “propaganda against the establishment”.

Ms Hamedi’s husband said her trial opened in Tehran today, a day after Ms Mohammadi’s began.

The women deny the charges and insist that they were just doing their jobs.

Iranian authorities have arrested at least 75 journalists since mass anti-government protests swept across the country in the wake of Masha Amini’s death, according to Reporters Without Borders.

Seventeen of these journalists, including Ms Hamedi and Ms Mohammadi, are still in prison.

Masha Amini died in hospital in Tehran on 16 September, three days after she was detained by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab “improperly”.

Witnesses said the 22-year-old Kurdish woman was beaten while in custody, but authorities blamed “sudden heart failure” for her death