Botan Times EnglishThe Kurdish journalist who interviewed the father of Jina Emini was released

In Iran, the Kurdish journalist Nazila Marofilana, who had interviewed the father of Jina Emini, was arrested on July 8.

According to the statement of the Human Rights Organization of Hengaw, the female journalist was released from prison today with a bail of 300 million tumen.

Marofilana was arrested for “making propaganda against the regime with her news”.

According to CPJ’s report, at least 95 journalists have been arrested in the country after the protests of Jina Amini.

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According to Hengaw, #NazilaMaroofian, a student and journalist from #Saqqez, who was arrested on July 8th of this year after being summoned to the Evin Courthouse in Tehran, was released today, Sunday, August 13, 2023, after 36 days of detention, on a bail of 300… pic.twitter.com/F5H4kret7o
— Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) August 13, 2023

What happened?

On September 13, 2022, a Kurdish girl named Jina Emini was arrested and killed under surveillance because her clothes were not according to Islamic customs.

After her murder, protests broke out across the country and hundreds of people lost their lives.