Elaheh Mohammadi
Elaheh Mohammadi () is an Iranian journalist who reports on society and women's issues for the daily Ham-Mihan newspaper. She has also worked with state-controlled media outlets such as Shahrvand, Khabar Online and Etemad Online in the past years. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. Mohammadi was arrested by Iranian security forces in September 2022 for reporting on Mahsa Amini's funeral. Report on Mahsa Amini's funeral 

Mohammadi had traveled to Saqqez for Iran's Ham-Mihan newspaper to cover the funeral of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had spent three days in a coma following her arrest by Tehran's notorious morality police and died on 16 September. Mohammadi had reported about the police attack at the funeral. Mohammadi was summoned by the judicial authorities but was then arrested by security forces on 29 September 2022, while on her way to the Ministry of Intelligence office for the questioning, according to Mohammad Ali Kamfiroozi, Mohammadi's lawyer, who broke the news on his page on social media. On 4 November 2022, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and Intelligence ministry issued a joint statement, filled with unsubstantiated claims, accusing Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, another female journalist, of being foreign agents engaged in “multi-dimensional wars” organized by “Western and Zionist intelligence agencies… to carry out serious and uninterrupted planning with the aim of influencing different social layers, especially in areas related to women”. Her sister Elnaz Mohammadi has been sentenced to three years in prison in September 2023. Awards and recognition 

 International Press Freedom Award by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), shared with Niloofar Hamedi, February 2023
 2023 Harvard's Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, shared with Niloofar Hamedi, March 2023
 In March 2023 the Turin city council granted honorary citizenship to Iranian journalist Elahe Mohammadi. 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, Shared with Niloofar Hamedi and Narges Mohammadi. In April 2023, Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi were included in Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People in the World. June 2023, Golden Pen award from WAN-IFRA, shared with Niloofar Hamedi. See also 
 Compulsory Hijab in Iran
 Human rights in Iran
 Mahsa Amini protests
 Nazila Maroufian

References 

Living people
Iranian journalists
Iranian women journalists
Iranian prisoners and detainees
1987 births
 Recipients of John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award