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Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize

Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) ... Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture. Mohammadi family archive photos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) ... Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture. Mohammadi family archive photos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

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In a blow to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and a boost for anti-government protestors, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi.

The award-giving committee said that the accolade honored individuals responsible for the recent, unheard-of protests in Iran and demanded the release of Mohammadi, 51, who has fought for women’s rights and repealing the death sentence for three decades.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s Berit Reiss-Andersen said, “Have the bravery; keep continuing.” She said, “We aim to transmit the word to women all over the globe living in situations where they are systematically discriminated: “Have the courage, keep going.”

She continued, quoting the protest movement’s catchphrase: “Woman, Life, Freedom.” “We want to give the prize to encourage Narges Mohammadi and the hundreds of thousands of people who have been crying for exactly ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ in Iran,” she said.

Although Tehran has referred to the rallies as Western-led subversion, there was no quick official response from Tehran.

However, Mohammadi “received her prize from the Westerners” after garnering media attention “due to her acts against the national security,” according to the semi-official news outlet Fars.

The New York Times cited Mohammadi as declaring that she would never give up fighting for democracy and equality, even if it meant being in prison. The publication cited her as stating in a statement released after receiving the Nobel Prize, “I will continue to fight against the relentless discrimination, tyranny, and gender-based oppression by the oppressive religious government until the liberation of women.”

According to the civil rights organization Front Line Defenders, Mohammadi is now serving several sentences totaling around 12 years in Tehran’s Evin jail.

Propaganda against the state is one of the charges. She serves as the deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, a non-governmental organization run by Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and currently a refugee.

“I congratulate Narges Mohammadi and all Iranian women for this prize,” Ebadi said to Reuters. “This prize will shed light on violation of women’s rights in the Islamic Republic … which unfortunately has proven that it cannot be reformed.”

Mohammadi is the 19th woman to receive the award in its 122-year history, and the first since Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia shared it in 2021.

Taghi Rahmani, Mohammadi’s husband, cheered while watching the news on T.V. at his Parisian home. “This Nobel Prize will embolden Narges’ fight for human rights, but more importantly, this is in fact a prize for the ‘woman, life and freedom’ movement,” he stated to Reuters.

When hearing about the award, her brother Hamidreza Mohammadi stated he was “overwhelmed” and that it would help his sister and other activists’ efforts.

“She will feel much stronger in her endeavours for human rights in Iran and for everyone who hopes for a better situation in Iran,” he told Reuters in Oslo.

Mohammadi, who has been detained three times at Evin prison since 2012 and arrested more than a dozen times throughout her life, has been unable to see her husband or children for 15 years.

On December 10, the anniversary of the Swedish entrepreneur Alfred Nobel’s passing and the day he established the Nobel Prize in his 1895 testament, she will receive her award in Oslo, valued at 11 million Swedish crowns, or over $1 million.

Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela were previous winners.

According to reports from rights organizations, a young Iranian girl was hospitalized in a coma following a confrontation on the Tehran metro because she was not wearing a headscarf. Authorities in Iran dispute the reports.

WORLDWIDE TRIBUTES

The Nobel Committee’s recognition of Mohammadi also occurred a little more than a year after Mahsa Amini, 22, died while in the morality police’s care in Iran for allegedly breaking the Islamic Republic’s clothing code for women.

The result was a brutal security response that claimed several hundred lives and set off months of widespread protests that presented the strongest challenge to Shi’ite religious control in years.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Nobel Prize was “a tribute to all those women who are fighting for their rights at the risk of their freedom, their health, and even their lives” amid a barrage of praise from influential international organizations.

Although the award could lessen the pressure on Iranian dissidents, according to Dan Smith, chairman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, it is unlikely to result in Mohammadi’s release.

 


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