Iranian journalist Nasim Sultan Beigi has been detained at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran as she tried to leave the country, her mother Jalili said Thursday.
«They turned off her cell phone when she went to deliver her belongings and get her boarding gate and, after several hours, she informed us in a quick phone call that she was being detained,» she said in statements reported by the Iran Wire news portal.
Subsequently, Jalili denounced that the authorities had transferred Sultan Beigi, also a human rights activist, whose whereabouts are now unknown.
More than 60 journalists have been detained in the context of the strong protests since last September following the death of young Mahsa Amini in police custody.
According to data from the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Iran has become the third country in the world with the highest number of detained journalists, behind China and Burma.
More than 500 people have died as a result of the measures put in place by Iran’s security forces to deal with the protests and an estimated 18,000 have been arrested, as denounced by activists and NGOs.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
