Overview
- Moaiery, a veteran photojournalist, learned she had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a Revolutionary Court case that applied the post‑2025 espionage law.
- Court notes reviewed by Reuters say the charges include giving interviews to media Tehran calls hostile and supplying photographs to organisations linked to the United States and Israel.
- Moaiery says IRGC intelligence raided her Tehran home in January and seized her phone, laptop, cameras and other equipment that she used to document protests and air‑strike damage.
- When she attended the Revolutionary Court she was not given formal case documents and a friend copied charge details by hand, while the new law cuts the appeal period to 10 days and adds bans on cultural work and social media use.
- Rights groups and press‑freedom organisations warn this case follows legal changes after the 2025 Israel‑Iran conflict and fits a wider pattern of Revolutionary Court cases and journalist detentions that curb reporting from inside Iran.