adminwomen were studying to become ninja “assassins.”
The story claimed the country was training more than 3 000 female ninjas to kill possible foreign invaders.
The young Iranian girls featured in the story are training in the art of Ninjutsu.
They promptly filed defamation charges against Reuters after the report went viral on the Internet.
The story’s headline, “Thousands of female Ninjas train as Iran’s assassins,” was corrected to read, “Three thousand women Ninjas train in Iran.”
Despite the correction, the bureau’s press accreditation was suspended last March. Reuters journalists have not been allowed to report inside Iran since then, Press TV reported.
Hafezi’s passport was confiscated in March, prohibiting her from traveling while the judge decides on a sentence. A ruling is expected in early October.
A jury member at the Tehran penal court said on Sunday that Reuters was also found guilty of propagating against the Islamic Republic, by “disseminating false information to disturb public opinion.”— RT.
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