Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish journalist Nazila Maroufian was sentenced to two years in prison, a fine of 15 million Tomans and a five-year ban on leaving Iran. The Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran charged the 23-year-old journalist with "propaganda against the state" and "publishing lies with the intention of disrupting the public mind" for publishing interviews with Mahsa Jina Amini’s father. The journalist wrote on...

Kurdish journalist Nazila Maroufian has been denied release on bail and access to proper medical care at Qarchak prison in Tehran although she had suffered two mild heart attacks in the jail. Judicial authorities have refused to release the journalist, who has suffered from two mild heart attacks, on bail after initial interrogations, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Maroufian, 23, who comes from the...