Iranian activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi you will receive Nobel Peace Prize 2023 for her fight for women’s rights in Iran, the Oslo-based Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this Friday.
The award honors Mohammadi, who is in prison in his home country, “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
The Norwegian committee stated that the award “also recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policy of discrimination and oppression of women.”
Mohammadi’s “brave fight,” the committee continued, “she had a huge personal cost. The Iranian regime arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Mohammadi remains in prison.”
Mohammadi, who is serving a 16-year prison sentence in Evin, received the Guillermo Cano Award for Press Freedom from UNESCO this year and won the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Courage Award in 2022.
Mohammadi, who has worked for various publications over the years, is also deputy director NGO Center for Human Rights Defenders in Tehran.
Even from prison, Mohammadi reported on the “deplorable” situation of prisoners in Iran, as she wrote dozens of articles from there, and was mistreated and tortured despite her heart problems, as RSF pointed out when it announced her award.
He Nobel Committee accused the Iranian regime of a “harsh crackdown” on “peaceful” protests, causing half a thousand deaths, thousands of injuries and “at least” 20,000 arrests.
Chairman of the committee, Berit Reiss-Andersenasked at a press conference after the award announcement that Tehran “listen to its people” and let the winner go so she can travel to Norway next year to receive the Nobel Prize December 10.
Reiss-Andersen began reading the verdict with three Persian words (zan, zendegi, azadi: woman, life, freedom)is the slogan of the latest wave of protests in Iran.
The Peace Prize is the fifth of the prizes announced so far, after the one of Medicine, physics, chemistry and literatureand succeeds the one awarded in 2022 to the Belarusian Ales Bialiatsky and the Russian organizations Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.
Source: Panama America
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