Iranian authorities have released journalist Elnaz Mohammadi from the Hammihan newspaper on bail a week after her arrest, media reported Sunday, but her sister, also a journalist, remains in custody.
Elnaz Mohammadi was detained after going to the prosecutor’s office “for an explanation”, but has since been “released from Evin prison on bail”, the reformist daily Hammihan reported.
Elahe Mohammadi’s sister was arrested on September 29 after reporting Hammihan from Mahsa Amini’s funeral, and remains in custody.
Iran has witnessed nationwide protests since the September 16 death in custody of Amini, a 22-year-old ethnic Kurd, who was arrested for allegedly violating a strict dress code for women.
A funeral procession in Amini’s hometown of Saqez in Kurdistan province was one of the first protests, followed by more than four months of unrest.
Elahe Mohammadi was charged with “propaganda against the system and conspiracy to act against national security”.
Authorities said hundreds of people, including dozens of security personnel, were killed during the protests.
Thousands of Iranians, including public figures, journalists and lawyers have been arrested.
Ten journalists arrested for protesting are still in custody, the Tehran Journalists Association said.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei agreed last week to pardon or commute the sentences of a “significant number” of inmates, some of whom were detained during protests, on the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.