The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded

The Nobel Committee has decided to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi.

The justification was that the award was given for fighting violations of women’s rights in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedoms for all.

“Her courageous struggle came at great personal cost,” Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said at the ceremony announcing the prize winners.

“This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is also a tribute to the hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated over the past year against theocratic regimes’ policies of discrimination and oppression against women,” Reiss-Andersen added.

Who is Mohammed

Narges Mohammadi is an activist involved in the campaign for human rights in Iran. The woman has spent most of the past two decades in prison, often in solitary confinement. She was convicted several times for her campaign against the death penalty.

After being released on bail in 2015, she was arrested again and sentenced to an additional prison term.

Mohammadi is currently serving a prison sentence of ten years and nine months on charges of activities against national security and propaganda activities against the Iranian state. The woman was also sentenced to 154 lashes (the sentence has not yet been imposed). She was also subject to a travel ban. He is serving his sentence in the infamous Evin prison in the Iranian capital Tehran.

Despite being imprisoned, Mohammadi still tries to get actively involved in the fight for women’s rights. Refusing to stop her actions, the woman was banned from contacting her husband Taghi Rahmani and her children, Ali and Kiana, for a year and a half.

Earlier this year, Iran’s parliament passed a draconian new law that imposes much harsher penalties on women who violate hijab rules. The decision to tighten the rules was taken a few days after the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, which sparked mass demonstrations against Iranian authorities.

Source: Do Rzeczy

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