Iran Has Sentenced This Prominent Woman Activist And Nobel Peace Prize Winner To Seven More Years In Prison
Mohammadi has now been sentenced to a total of more than 44 years in prison and currently faces more than 17 years, as well as 154 lashes from previous sentences.
Iran has sentenced prominent women’s rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, to an additional seven years in prison for attending anti-government protests.
The 53-year-old has spent the past 10 years in and out of prison for her work pushing for peaceful change in the country, campaigning to end the country’s mandatory hijab law, violence against women and the death penalty.
Mohammadi was temporarily released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison in December 2024 so she could receive medical care after her health deteriorated after being held since 2014.
Mohammadi was then rearrested on Dec. 12, after she attended a memorial ceremony-turned-protest for Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead under what human rights groups said was suspicious circumstances.
Since then, Mohammadi has been detained, with limited contact with family members and even her lawyers.
She had been transferred from her detention center to a hospital after her health deteriorated again when she started a hunger strike against being detained unlawfully on Feb. 2.
On Sunday, Feb. 8, her foundation announced Mohammadi had called from prison and said she had finally received a trial and was convicted to six years in jail for “assembly and collusion against national security” and an additional year-and-a-half for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic Regime.”
She will also serve a two-year exile in Khusf, eastern Iran, and the court also issued a two-year travel ban.
Mohammadi has now been sentenced to a total of more than 44 years in prison and currently faces more than 17 years, as well as 154 lashes from previous sentences, according to her Foundation.
Mohammadi’s daughter Kiana Rahmani said she is “gravely concerned” for her mother and demanded her release, as well as those of other political prisoners in Iran.
Iran has intensified its crackdown on dissenters in the past couple of years, targeting activists and women who have defied the mandatory hijab law.
In January, Iran security forces killed more than 6,000 people after huge anti-government protests broke across Iran after the country’s currency hit a record low, according ot the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
Sofia Hou
