Iran Has Rearrested This Woman Nobel Peace Prize Winner After She Attended A Protest For An Activist
Narges Mohammadi has been arrested multiple times under several charges, including “spreading anti-state propaganda”, and has spent the past 10 years in and out of prison.
Iranian security forces have “brutally” arrested Nobel Peace Prize winner and women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi once again.
The 53-year-old has spent decades pushing for peaceful change in the country, campaigning to end the country’s mandatory hijab law, violence against women and the death penalty.
She has been arrested multiple times under several charges, including “spreading anti-state propaganda”, and has spent the past 10 years in and out of prison.
Her health has deteriorated after years in prison and she was temporarily released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison in December 2024 after being held there since 2021 so she could receive medical care.
On Friday, Dec. 12, Mohammadi attended a memorial ceremony for Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead under “suspicious” circumstances, according to human rights groups.
The Narges Foundation said the memorial turned into an anti-government protest, which led to the deployment of more than 100 security forces.
During a brief call on Sunday to her family, Mohammadi said “plainclothes agents” grabbed her hair, dragged her on the ground and struck forceful blows to her head, face and neck.
Iranian authorities said Mohammadi and 39 other people were arrested, but independent non-profits believe that more than 50 people have been arrested.
During the call, she also asked her brother to file a complaint against the regime for her illegal and violent arrest.
Her family has expressed their concern for her health, saying they have not been allowed to send doctors to assess her health.
“Narges’s family in Iran must be able to see her to make sure of her condition. Most of the people arrested are now being held in solitary confinement and freedom is their fundamental human right,” Mohammadi’s husband, Taghi Rahmani, who lives in exile in France, said.
Iran has intensified its crackdown on dissenters in the past couple of years, targeting activists and women who have defied the mandatory hijab law.
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