They are two leading journalists in Iran, ‘Time’ magazine included them in a list among the 100 most influential people. And now they could be sentenced to death penalty just for doing his job. Nilufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, the two journalists who reported on the death of Mahsa Aminihave been accused of conspiring against national security, propaganda against the system and of collaborate with the United States government.

The Iranian activist and interpreter, Ryma Sheermohammadi, assures that “the accusation of collaborating with enemy countries is because Iran maintains that these protests are promoted and supported by people who collaborate with Western countries who want to destabilize the government“. This accusation is the most serious of the three and can be punished with 10 years in jail. Explains Sheermohammadi, “if there is a sentence for them and that crime can be appealed, they do not have any amnesty or any type of forgiveness”, so they would go to prison.

The news has shocked activists. The journalists wear arrested seven months. In the case of Hamedi, for being the one who published the photo of Mahsa in coma and intubated in the hospital. And Mohammadi covered her burial in the city of Saquez, where the mass protests for the death of the 22-year-old.

A mobilization against iranian islamic republic that quickly moved throughout the country and for which the regime focused on them by relating them to the figure of this social movement that was the death of Mahsa.

Now his fate is in the hands of the iranian justice. Within a month it is expected that the trial hearings will begin, after which his sentence will be known.