The campaigner, 51, was awarded the prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”.
Jailed Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023.
The 51-year-old campaigner was given the award “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”.
The award also recognised the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against Iranian discrimination and oppression of women.
Anoosheh Ashoori, who spent five years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison – the same prison where Ms Mohammadi is serving multiple sentences – told Sky News he is worried about her even more now she has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Ashoori said he met “many other innocent people” there, adding that some “are still there, just going through that hell right now”.
He said he saw broken glass and blood on the floor of a medical centre during his time there and was told Ms Mohammadi had been pushed and thrown into a glass door by the prison’s director, adding: “He was quite famous for his brutalities.”
Asked if he thought the award might have a negative impact on her treatment and time in the jail, he said: “I am worried about it because I know how these beasts behave. It can have repercussions and I’m really worried about her safety.”
Responding to the news of the award, Ms Mohammadi vowed to be “more resilient, determined, hopeful and enthusiastic”.
“I will never stop striving for the realisation of democracy, freedom and equality,” she said in a statement to the New York Times.
“Standing alongside the brave mothers of Iran, I will continue to fight against the relentless discrimination, tyranny and gender-based oppression by the oppressive religious government until the liberation of women,” she added.
Her family said in a statement that while the honour could “never compensate” them for the time she had spent imprisoned, it was a “source of solace for our indescribable suffering”.
Who is Narges Mohammadi?
Ms Mohammadi is one of Iran’s leading human rights activists, and has also campaigned against the country’s death penalty.
She has been in prison almost continually over the last 13 years, having been jailed for 11 years in 2011 for “acting against the national security”.
That sentence was for her work with the Iranian human rights group, Defenders of Human Rights Center, of which she is vice-president.
Source : https://news.sky.com/story/nobel-peace-prize-awarded-to-irans-narges-mohammadi-12978009
