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This photojournalist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison. She refuses to be silenced
Yalda Moaiery says she will appeal after an Iranian court convicted her on national security charges tied to her reporting and protests.
- Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this month by an Iranian court, which cited "activities in furtherance of the interest of the Zionist regime against national security" as the reason for the charges.
- Moaiery has spent more than two decades documenting life under the regime, covering the bloody crackdown on protests across more than 100 cities and the war with the United States.
- Despite threats from authorities to raid her home for speaking to international media, Moaiery insisted, "Fifteen years is a lifetime, but this is the risk that I was accepting in my whole life to tell the truth."
- Moaiery hopes to appeal the decision, joining others like journalist Jason Rezaian, journalist Roxana Saberi, and businessman Siamak Namazi, whose cases show public attention can pressure the Iranian regime to grant release.
- Six months into the war, Moaiery noted that public sentiment has shifted; "Most of them are thinking about the economic situation," she said this week, adding that people believe the war has made the regime stronger.
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“Don’t forget me.” This is the desperate plea of Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, who has dedicated more than two decades to document life under the Iranian regime, including, more recently, the bloody repression of protests in January,...
This photojournalist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison. She refuses to be silenced
Even as she prepares for the alarming prospect of years inside Iran’s notorious prison system, Yalda Moaiery says she will continue to bear witness as long as she can.
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