News Center- Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloufar Hamedi have been each sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “collusion and conspiring against state security” and one year on charges of “propaganda against the state”, their lawyers said on Sunday.

Elaheh Mohammadi had been sentenced to six years in prison for “collaborating with the hostile government of the United States”, five years for “conspiring and colluding to commit a crime against national security” and one year for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” while Niloufar Hamedi was sentenced to 13 years in prison over the same charges.

Iranian courts have acquitted journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi of “collaborating with a hostile foreign state,” but upheld the five-year prison sentences for other charges, their lawyers reported.

The lawyers said these sentences were upheld by the appeals court and would be served concurrently, adding, however, that they hope the journalists would be freed under an amnesty announced last year by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

‘We hope this case will be closed’

“Considering that the remaining two accusations meet the full conditions of the amnesty directive of 2023, we hope that Elaheh Mohammadi will be pardoned, and this case will be closed by issuing a suspension of execution order," said Elaheh Mohammadi's lawyer Shahab Mirlohi.

The lawyers of Miloufar Hamedi issued a similar statement.