Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi?
Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi?
The jailed Nobel laureate has been a prominent voice in Iran’s women’s movement.
Iranian opposition human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, at the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran.
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Published On 6 Oct 20236 Oct 2023
When the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the winner of the peace prize, Narges Mohammadi, she recited a slogan associated with the women’s rights movement in Iran. “Women, life, freedom,” Berit Reiss-Andersen said on Friday.
Mohammadi is a prominent Iranian human rights activist and physicist who has been fighting against the oppression of women in Iran.
Here is what we know about the Nobel Peace Prize winner:
Who is Narges Mohammadi?
Mohammadi’s focus is on the fight for women’s rights in the region. The 51-year-old is also a writer and deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC). She also works on broader human rights issues, such as campaigning against the death penalty and corruption. “She has worked for human rights for everyone in Iran, so this is going to be a huge boost to the human rights defenders centre and one that is putting her work in Iran on the map,” Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research Institute, told Al Jazeera.
Why did she win the peace prize?
Mohammadi won the prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. She has worked on Iranian women’s fight against oppression for the past 30 years. She has contributed to the grassroots movement in Iran by empowering women through education and advocacy. Her work has included organising protests and sit-ins and writing essays.
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Health and family
Mohammadi’s work has come at the cost of her health. She reportedly suffers from a lung condition and a neurological disorder that causes muscular paralysis. She has not been able to meet her husband and two children due to her imprisonment. “This Nobel Prize will embolden Narges’s fight for human rights, but more importantly, this is in fact a prize for the women, life and freedom [movement],” said Mohammadi’s husband and activist Taghi Ramahi.
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Iran’s jailed rights advocate Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
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Narges Mohammadi is honoured for her fight against ‘the oppression of women’ in Iran at ‘tremendous personal costs’.
Iranian rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi is seen at her home in Tehran in 2001 [File: Behrouz Mehri/AFP]
Published On 6 Oct 20236 Oct 2023
Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and relentless fight for social reform. While behind bars, she was awarded the prestigious prize on Friday for her efforts “to promote human rights and freedom for all”, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. “Her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes,” Berit Reiss-Andersen, head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said in Oslo during the announcement.
Mohammadi, 51, is one of Iran’s leading human rights activists who has campaigned for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty. She is currently serving multiple sentences in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison amounting to about 12 years imprisonment, according to the Front Line Defenders rights organisation, one of the many periods she has been detained behind bars. Charges include spreading propaganda against the state.
Mohammadi is the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, a non-governmental organisation led by Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She told The New York Times after the win she would never stop striving for democracy and equality – even if that meant staying in prison. “I will continue to fight against the relentless discrimination, tyranny and gender-based oppression by the oppressive religious government until the liberation of women,” the newspaper quoted her as saying in a statement. “I also hope this recognition makes Iranians protesting for change stronger and more organised. Victory is near.”
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Iran’s Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize for rights fight
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