Nobel Peace Prize 2023: The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 has been given to imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi for her “fight against the oppression of women” and “promotion of human rights and freedom for all.” The Nobel Prize Committee claims that Narges Mohammadi’s battle has cost him a great deal personally. She has “been 13 times arrested, five times found guilty, and has received a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.”
Narges Mohammadi’s Ongoing Struggle for Human Rights
According to the rights group Front Line Defenders and the news agency Reuters, the Iranian human rights campaigner is incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin Prison serving a number of terms. Additionally accused of “spreading propaganda” against the Iranian government is Narges Mohammadi. According to Reuters, she serves as the deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre, a non-governmental organisation run by Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Narges Mohammadi’s Journey from Physics Student to Advocate
As a physics student in the 1990s, Narges Mohammadi started speaking up for gender equality and women’s rights. She has consistently opposed “systematic discrimination and oppression”, the Nobel committee said. She has supported the “struggle for the right to live full and dignified lives”, a cause that has often been met with “persecution, imprisonment, torture and even death” in Iran.
Narges Mohammadi’s Fight for Expression and Independence
According to the committee, she also advocates for “freedom of expression and the right to independence” by opposing laws that restrict women’s liberties. In response to the passing of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini last year, Narges Mohammadi staged solidarity actions from inside Tehran’s Evin Prison and provided support to the demonstrators. She was able to contact with the outside world while being imprisoned in harsh conditions because The New York Times printed her piece on Mahsa Amini’s death anniversary. The title of her essay in The New York Times read, “The more of us they lock up, the stronger we become.”
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