In 2022, RSF ranked Iran 178th in terms of press freedom, followed only by two totalitarian states, Eritrea and North Korea. Despite pardons, 26 are still incarcerated, including 9 women.
Morteza Behboudi is that journalist who began his career at the age of 15 photographing the protests in Tehran. Elaheh Mohammadi is a journalist with a duty to inform who attended Jina Mahsa Amini's funeral in Saqqez in Iranian Kurdistan.