Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi had reported early on the protests in Iran. Now they are standing before the notorious Tehran Revolutionary Court – behind closed doors.

The secret service describes the two journalists as "foreign agents" The women were among the first to report on the death of the young Kurdish Jina Mahsa Amini, who died in mid-September. The case sparked the most serious protests in Tehran in years and led to seven demonstrators being executed.