The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Iranian human rights activist and vice-president of the human rights group Defenders of Human Rights, Nargiz Mohammadi. At the time of the announcement of this decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the laureate is in custody.
She was awarded the prize “for her efforts in the fight against the oppression of women in Iran and in promoting human rights and freedoms for all,” Interfax reports.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee also decided to dedicate the 2023 Prize to the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have protested in Iran over the past year against discrimination against women under the slogan “Woman – Life – Freedom.”
In 2016, Mohammadi received a prison sentence of 16 years in her home country for leading a human rights movement that advocates for the abolition of the death penalty. This was not the only sentence, she was tried five times and in total she was sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. She was released in 2020, but was imprisoned again at the end of 2021 and is now being held in Tehran at Evin Prison.
The human rights center, of which Mohammadi is vice-president, is led by 2003 Nobel laureate lawyer Shirin Ebadi.
Source: Rosbalt
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