An Iranian journalist who was arrested after interviewing the father of young Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked widespread protests in Iran, said on Saturday that she had been sentenced without a hearing, AFP and Agerpres reported.

Nazila Maroufian, a journalist based in Tehran and from the hometown of young Iranian Mahsa Amini in Kurdistan province (northwest), was arrested in late October and detained in Evin prison in Tehran, according to some NGOs.

“According to the decision of the 26th chamber of the revolutionary court, I was sentenced to two years of imprisonment with payment of a fine and a ban on leaving for five years” for “propaganda against the regime and propaganda of fakes.” news,” he wrote Maroufian on Twitter.

“The two-year imprisonment was suspended for five years,” she added, stressing that “the sentence was handed down without a hearing and without my defense.”

Nazila Maroufyan, who worked for the news site Ruydad 24, published an interview with Amjad, the father of young Mahsa Amini, on October 19 on the online site Mostaghel.

“I’m not going to end my life by suicide and I’m not suffering from a hidden illness,” the journalist commented, posting a link to her article, a direct allusion to the risks she was aware of when publishing the interview.

The Mostaghel website later retracted the text, but a hidden version found the father denying the Iranian authorities’ explanation that his daughter suffered from health problems. The title of the article is unambiguous: “Mahsa Amini’s father: ‘They are lying’.”

Journalists who drew attention to Mahse Amini’s case were nevertheless arrested

Iran has been rocked for months by demonstrations sparked by the September 16 death of a young Iranian, Mahsa Amini. She was arrested by the morality police for not following the very strict dress code that the Islamic Republic imposes on women.

The demonstrations, classified by Iranian authorities as riots, are unprecedented in Iran in terms of scale and nature since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Two journalists who contributed to the coverage of this case are also in custody in Evin.

30-year-old Nilufar Hamedi of the Shargh newspaper went to the hospital where Mahsa Amini was in a coma before her death. According to the family, she was detained on September 20.

Elaheh Mohammadi, 35, a reporter for the daily Ham Meehan, traveled to Sagez to cover the funeral of a young woman, which also hosted one of the first demonstrations of this major protest movement. She was detained on September 29.

Security forces have killed at least 488 people during demonstrations since September 16, of which 64 were under the age of 18, according to the latest report by the Norway-based NGO Iran for Human Rights (IHR).