Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed Iranian feminist Narges Mohammadi
Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, center, sits next to Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, left, while attending a meeting on women's rights in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 27, 2007.
JAILED Iranian feminist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for fighting women’s oppression.
Norwegian Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said the prize was “a recognition of the very important work of the whole movement in Iran with its undisputed leader, Narges Mohammadi.”
Ms Mohammadi, 51, is held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, having been jailed in 2021 for attending a memorial to a protester killed by police in 2019. She has been convicted five times, jailed 13 times and sentenced in total to 31 years behind bars.
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