Elaheh Mohammadi Explained

Elaheh Mohammadi
Native Name:Persian: الهه محمدی
Birth Date:9 May 1987
Nationality:Iranian
Occupation:Journalist
Known For:Reporting on Mahsa Amini's funeral and her subsequent arrest

Elaheh Mohammadi (Persian: الهه محمدی) is an Iranian journalist who reports on society and women's issues for the daily Ham-Mihan newspaper. She has also worked with state-controlled media outlets such as Shahrvand, Khabar Online and Etemad Online in the past years. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.

Mohammadi was arrested by Iranian security forces in September 2022 for reporting on Mahsa Amini's funeral.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Report on Mahsa Amini's funeral

Mohammadi had traveled to Saqqez 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.[5]

Mohammadi was summoned by the judicial authorities but was then arrested by security forces on 29 September 2022, while on her way to the Ministry of Intelligence office for the questioning, according to Mohammad Ali Kamfiroozi, Mohammadi's lawyer, who broke the news on his page on social media.[6] [7] [8]

On 4 November 2022, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and Intelligence ministry issued a joint statement, filled with unsubstantiated claims, accusing Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, 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”.[9]

Her sister Elnaz Mohammadi has been sentenced to three years in prison in September 2023.[10]

Awards and recognition

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: الهه محمدی روزنامه‌نگار بازداشت شد . 2023-01-07 . . fa.
  2. Web site: وزارت اطلاعات و سپاه، آمریکا را به هدایت اعتراضات متهم کردند – DW – ۱۴۰۱/۸/۶ . 2023-01-07 . Deutsche Welle (DW) . fa.
  3. Web site: 30 October 2022 . حمایت ب یش از ۳۰۰ روزنامه‌نگار ایرانی از نیلوفر حامدی و الهه محمدی، به‌دنبال انتشار بیانیه وزارت اطلاعات و سپاه . More than 300 Iranian journalists support Nilofar Hamidi and Elaha Mohammadi, following the release of the statement of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps . 2023-01-07 . BBC News فارسی . fa.
  4. Web site: تلاش جمهوری اسلامی برای جرم‌انگاری اطلاع‌رسانی؛ خبرنگاری جرم نیست . The Islamic Republic's attempt to criminalize information; Journalism is not a crime . 2023-01-07 . صدای آمریکا (Voice of America) . fa.
  5. Web site: 29 September 2022 . Iran arrests reporter who covered Amini funeral: lawyer . 29 October 2022 . France 24.
  6. Web site: 29 September 2022 . Journalist Elaheh Mohammadi Arrested . 29 October 2022 . Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
  7. Web site: Journalist Elaheh Mohammadi banned for a year from reporting . 25 December 2021 . 29 October 2022.
  8. Web site: 30 September 2022 . Iranian police arrest journalist Elaheh Mohammadi and poet Mona Borzooi . 29 October 2022 . ANF.
  9. Web site: 2022-11-01 . Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi . 2023-03-30 . Center for Human Rights in Iran.
  10. News: 2023-09-03 . En Iran, deux femmes journalistes condamnées à trois ans de prison pour " complot " et " collusion " . fr . Le Monde.fr . 2023-09-03.
  11. Web site: Expression . Canadian Journalists for Free . Recipients of the CJFE Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award and Arnold Amber Award for Investigative Journalism Announced . 2023-03-30 . www.newswire.ca . en.
  12. Web site: Canadian NGO Presents Award To Two Jailed Female Iranian Journalists . 2023-03-30 . Iran International . en.
  13. Web site: Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi win Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard . 2023-03-30 . Nieman Foundation . en-US.
  14. Web site: Iranian Journalists Receive Prestigious US Award While In Jail For Revolution Coverage . 2023-03-30 . Iran International . en.
  15. Web site: Mattina . Liborio La . Conferita la cittadinanza onoraria alla giornalista iraniana Elahe Mohammadi . 2023-04-30 . www.giornalelavoce.it . it.
  16. News: Three imprisoned Iranian women journalists awarded 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize . 3 May 2023 . UNESCO.
  17. Web site: Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi Are on the 2023 Time 100 List. Time. Jason. Rezaian. 13 April 2023. 13 April 2023.
  18. Web site: Heslop . Andrew . 2023-06-28 . Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Journalists Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, Jailed in Iran . 2023-06-29 . WAN-IFRA . en-US.

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