Tehran, Oct. 31 -- More than 300 Iranian journalists on Sunday demanded the release of two female colleagues imprisoned for their coverage of the death of the 22-year-oldMahsa Aminiin police custody, local media reported.

They signed a statement published in Iran's Etemad newspaper and other newspapers, accusing the authorities of arresting journalists and "stripping them of their civil rights."

Nilofar Hamidi had taken a picture of Amini's parents embracing in a Tehran hospital, where their daughter was lying in a coma.

The picture, which Hamidi published on Twitter, was the first alarm to the world that something was wrong with Amini, who had been arrested by the morality police three days earlier, for allegedly wearing hijab imprope...