OSLO: Narges Mohammadi, the human rights activist and writer from Iran who is in jail, has won the Nobel Peace Award 2023, the Nobel Peace Committee announced today.
According to the citation for the award announced by the committee, Mohammadi received the prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.
The chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, made the announcement in Oslo.
Reiss-Andersen began by quoting the slogan of Iranian human rights campaigners, in Farsi and English: “Zan, Zedegi, Azadi. Woman, Life, Freedom.”
Andersen said that altogether the Iranian regime had arrested Mohammadi 13 times, convicted her five times and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Mohammadi remains incarcerated in Iran’s notorious Evin prison.
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