Jailed Iranian reporters to receive Canadian Journalists for Free Expression award
TORONTO, Jan. 20, 2023 /CNW/ - Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is proud to announce that its highest accolade, an International Press Freedom Award, will be awarded to two Iranian journalists jailed for covering the death in custody of an Iranian woman arrested for improperly wearing a headscarf.
- TORONTO, Jan. 20, 2023 /CNW/ - Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is proud to announce that its highest accolade, an International Press Freedom Award, will be awarded to two Iranian journalists jailed for covering the death in custody of an Iranian woman arrested for improperly wearing a headscarf.
- Iranian state security agents arrested the two reporters shortly after their reporting and accused them of espionage, a crime punishable by death in Iran.
- As a result, hundreds of people are dead and thousands more behind bars, including dozens of journalists.
- "Without the courage of these journalists we might never have known the true story of Mahsa Amini's death.