This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate cannot attend the award ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10. Narges Mohammadi sits in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, where she is serving her third prison sentence for defending human rights. A mathematician and physicist who loves singing and mountaineering, she told me she would have had a very different … Read more
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize last month for her advocacy for women’s rights and freedom of expression in her country, began a hunger strike on Monday while already dealing with heart and lung issues in Tehran’s Evin prison, where she has been held since 2021. The 51-year-old, … Read more
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. Mohammadi received the prize for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” the awards committee said. Mohammadi is currently in prison. “Her brave struggle has come at … Read more
Comment on this storyComment DUBAI — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist. She is the fifth person to receive the prize while incarcerated. Norwegian Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said the prize was awarded “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and … Read more