Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize. For years she has campaigned for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty in Iran. The 51-year-old has kept up her activism despite numerous arrests. She has remained a leading light for nationwide, women-led protests, sparked by the death last year of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Those demonstrations grew into one of the most intense challenges ever to Iran’s theocratic government. The chair of the
Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for fighting the oppression of women in Iran. She is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi won the award in 2003. This photo taken in 2021 shows Narges Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran. Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct.
“Surely, the Nobel Peace Prize will make me more resilient, determined, hopeful and enthusiastic on this path, and it will accelerate my pace,” she said in the statement, prepared in advance in case she was named the Nobel laureate. FILE - Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, center, adjusts her scarf, as she speaks with fellow activists Narges Mohammadi, right, while Marzieh Mortazi looks on, prior to her press conference at the Center for Protecting Human Rights in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 17, 2005.
Mohammadi’s husband, Taghi Rahmani, who lives in exile in Paris with their two children, 16-year-old twins, said his wife “has a sentence she always repeats: ‘Every single award will make me more intrepid, more resilient and more brave for realizing human rights, freedom, civil equality and democracy.’”
Mohammadi was in detention for the recent protests of the death of Mahsa Amini, who was picked up by the morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf. More than 500 people were killed in a security crackdown, while over 22,000 others were arrested.
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