Elaheh Mohammadi ( fa, الهه محمدی) is an Iranian journalist who reports on society and women's issues for the daily ''

Ham-Mihan ''Ham-Mihan'' ( fa, هم‌میهن, lit=Compatriot) was a reformist daily newspaper in Tehran, Iran. It was in circulation between 2000 and 2009. History and profile In January 2000 Gholamhossein Karbaschi, former mayor of Tehran, established ' ...

'' newspaper. She has also worked with state-controlled media outlets such as ''

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'', Khabar Online and

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Online in the past years. ''

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'' magazine named her one of the

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in 2023. Mohammadi was arrested by Iranian security forces in September 2022 for reporting on Mahsa Amini's funeral.

Report on Mahsa Amini's funeral

Mohammadi had traveled to

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for Iran's Ham-Mihan newspaper to cover the funeral of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had spent three days in a coma following her arrest by Tehran's notorious morality police and died on 16 September. Mohammadi had reported about the police attack at the funeral. Mohammadi was summoned by the judicial authorities but was then arrested by security forces on 29 September 2022, while on her way to the

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office for the questioning, according to Mohammad Ali Kamfiroozi, Mohammadi's lawyer, who broke the news on his page on social media. On 4 November 2022, the

Islamic Revolutionary Guards The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...

and Intelligence ministry issued a joint statement, filled with unsubstantiated claims, accusing Mohammadi and

Niloofar Hamedi Niloofar Hamedi ( fa, نیلوفر حامدی; born 22 October 1992) is an Iranian journalist who works for the reformist daily newspaper ''Shargh''. She was arrested during the Mahsa Amini protests for breaking the news about Mahsa Amini(Jina), ...

, another female journalist, of being foreign agents engaged in “multi-dimensional wars” organized by “Western and Zionist intelligence agencies… to carry out serious and uninterrupted planning with the aim of influencing different social layers, especially in areas related to women”.

Awards and recognition

* International Press Freedom Award by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), shared with

, February 2023 * 2023 Harvard's Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, shared with Niloofar Hamedi, March 2023 * In April 2023, Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi were included in ''

'' magazine's list of

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. * In March 2023 the Turin city council granted honorary citizenship to Iranian journalist Elahe Mohammadi. * 2023

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially whe ...

, Shared with

and

Narges Mohammadi Narges Mohammadi (; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. In May 2016, she was sentenced in Tehran to 16 ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mohammadi, Elaheh Living people Iranian journalists Iranian women journalists Iranian prisoners and detainees 1987 births

Report on Mahsa Amini's funeral

Awards and recognition

See also

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