Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, she was convicted to another fifteen months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran”. His family made this known on Monday 15 January, also saying that “the sentence resembles a political declaration against Mohammadi”.
Narges Mohammadi is 51 years old and has spent much of the last ten years in and out of prison. Her family said that a retrial was held against her on December 19 in her absence and that the conviction was the fifth since 2021. In total Mohammadi was sentenced to 12 years and three months in prison, 154 lashes, a four-month travel ban, two years of exile and various bans including joining political groups. Since November 16, 2021, you have been imprisoned in Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, famous for being the place where political prisoners are often locked up.
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Mohammadi, who among other things supported the protests that began last year after the death of Mahsa Amini, was awarded the Nobel Prize for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.”
Mohammadi was born in 1972 in Zanjan, a city about 300 kilometers north-west of Tehran, she graduated in Physics, but since her university years she has been involved in clandestine movements for women’s rights. In 2003 she joined the Center for Human Rights Defenders, a non-governmental organization founded by Shirin Ebadi, another winner of the Nobel Peace Prize: she quickly became its vice-president.
Mohammadi had mainly focused on defending the rights of prisoners, political prisoners and on campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty. You have been arrested many times and from prison you have started numerous campaigns against the use of torture and sexual violence, especially against female prisoners.
In September 2022, when protests began in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, Mohammadi was in prison but from there she managed to find a way to support the demonstrators by managing to send articles and messages of solidarity, organizing protests internal sessions and weekly seminars for female prisoners on their rights.
The regime’s repression against the protests had soon become very harsh and violent and even the Evin prison, where Mohammadi was held, had filled up with people who had participated in last year’s demonstrations. At the end of 2022 Mohammadi, from prison, sent a message letter on British TV BBC in which he described how rape and sexual violence were systematically used as a form of torture to punish women prisoners.
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