Find out why Iranian journalists Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi are on TIME's list of the 100 most influential people of 2023 TIME100
—arrested in Tehran and charged with not covering her hair properly—left the police station barely alive. This kind of brutality happens in Iran, but we rarely hear the details. Victims and their families suffer in silence for fear of inviting even more abuse.
This time was different. A reporter named Niloofar Hamedi broke the story, publishing photographs of Amini lying brain-dead in the hospital, and devastated family members embracing in the hall. Elaheh Mohammadi covered the funeral, which doubled asHamedi and Mohammadi have instead been rewarded with excruciating limbo. They wereand remain in Evin Prison.
Journalism has been dying a slow death in Iran. Brave domestic reporters are the lone reason its light still flickers. The arrests of Hamedi and Mohammadi—and of nearly 100 other journalists since the protests started—show how far the regime will go to extinguish it.
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