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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.
The civilian toll climbs past 1,000 as women, children and families are struck in their homes, schools and public spaces – a stark illustration of the human cost of war. AZAR SEPEHR emphasises that the future of Iran is solely determinable by the people of that country and them alone
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran
