Freedom of the Press Award of the Journalists of the State of Hesse for Niloofar Hamedi
May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, and the German Journalists Association (DJV) annually awards journalists who have been unjustly imprisoned or persecuted on this day.
The Hesse branch of this association deemed Niloofar Hamedi, a journalist and photographer, deserving of the Press Freedom Award in 2023 for her reporting on the fate and death of Mahsa Amini.
Niloofar Hamedi was arrested on Wednesday, September 21, after publishing a photo and report on Mahsa Amini and her family at Kasra Hospital in Tehran. The Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organization of the IRGC, two security arms of the Islamic Republic, have labeled Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi as trained agents of foreign services and accused them of disturbing public opinion and propaganda against the regime.
Elaheh Mohammadi, a colleague from the Ham-Mihan newspaper, had reported on the burial of Mahsa Amini in Saqqez.
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