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Iranian journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who solved the case of Mahsa Amini’s death were in police custody in 2022, were acquitted by the Court of Appeal of charges of “collaborating with a hostile foreign government” referring to the United States.

“After appealing the initial verdict, according to the final verdict of the Tehran Provincial Court of Appeal, Niloufar Hamedi was acquitted of collaborating with a hostile foreign government.” Hamedi’s lawyers Partho Borhanpour and Hojat Kermani told the reformist newspaper on Sunday: Sharg.

Said Parsai, the husband of another accused journalist, also reported this on a social network. His wife was acquitted of the charges.

Khamedi, from the reformist newspaper Shargand Mohammadi from the newspaper Hammihanthey were sentenced at first instance to seven and six years’ imprisonmentaccordingly, in the same case in October last year.

Both are now charged with “conspiracy against national security” and “spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” for which they were sentenced to six years in prison each.

However, Khamedi’s lawyers said heIn other cases, journalists will be acquitted of guilt. under an amnesty announced last year by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, which rightly did not include them at the time.

The informants were arrested in September 2022 after Hamedi posted a photo of Amini in hospital while she was in a coma and intubated, and after Mohammadi covered the funeral of a young woman in the Kurdistan city of Saqez, where “woman, life, freedom” protests took place.

After spending 17 months in temporary detention, they were was released on bail in January last year.

The protests were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini after he was arrested for not wearing the Islamic hijab. happened all over the country demanding greater freedoms and the end of the Islamic Republic.