Two female journalists, who were released on bail from prison in Iran on Sunday, having spent 17 months in jail for reporting on the death of Mahsa Amini*, have been charged under the country’s hijab laws after pictures were published of them celebrating their release with their heads uncovered.

*In 2022, Iran was gripped by protests following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin who had been arrested three days earlier for allegedly breaching the Islamic dress code for women.

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    10 months ago

    So they didn’t go to an Islamic country. They were already there. If Elaheh Mohammadi is 36 this year, she would have been born in 1988, not too long after the Iranian revolution.