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Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloufar Hamedi were jailed in September 2022 after covering Mahsa Amini's death, accused of collaborating with the United States.
On the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, Iran's new president has said that the country's morality police will not 'bother women'.
The UN's fact-finding mission has found the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of Iran's morality police was "unlawful".
The protests that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini were the largest since the 2009 Green Movement, presenting major challenges to the Iranian regime.
The lawyer for the Amini family says they are prohibited from leaving Iran despite having a valid visa, and their passports have been confiscated.
Musk was put forward for the Sakharov Prize by a European Parliament grouping that counts nationalistic and extreme-right lawmakers among its members.
Gilad Erdan disrupted President Ebrahim Raisi's speech during the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday by holding up an image of Mahsa Amini, who died in Iranian police custody last year.
Analysis: Mass protests last year changed Iran in significant ways. One year on, the Islamic Republic still faces a legitimacy crisis, as a cultural revolution continues to challenge the balance of power between state and society.
The latest case of deaths in custody happened on 31 August, when Javad Rouhi was transferred from Nowshahr prison to a hospital and died there.
The death on 16 September last year of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting mandatory dress codes, triggered months of widespread protests.