Iran Puts 2 Women Journalists on Trial for What They Wrote

The Iranian journalist Niloufar Hamedi specialized in covering women’s issues. So when her editor noticed an Instagram post about a young woman in a hospital in bad shape after being arrested for violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code, Ms. Hamedi headed straight there.

She found relatives of the woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, holding each other tightly in a fluorescent-lit ward inside Tehran’s Kasra Hospital. She snapped a

and posted it on Twitter — and then it went viral….