Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize – National | 24CA News
Iran’s jailed ladies’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi gained the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and increase for anti-government protesters.
The award-making committee stated the prize honored all these behind current unprecedented demonstrations in Iran and referred to as for the discharge of Mohammadi, 51, who has campaigned for each ladies’s rights and the abolition of the dying penalty.
“This prize is first and foremost a recognition of the very important work of a whole movement in Iran, with its undisputed leader, Narges Mohammadi,” stated Berit Reiss-Andersen, head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
“If the Iranian authorities make the right decision, they will release her so that she can be present to receive this honor (in December), which is what we primarily hope for.”
There was no rapid official response from Tehran, which calls the protests Western-led subversion.
But semi-official news company Fars stated Mohammadi had “received her prize from the Westerners” after making headlines “due to her acts against the national security.”
FILE – Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, middle, adjusts her scarf, as she speaks with fellow activists Narges Mohammadi, proper, whereas Marzieh Mortazi seems to be on, previous to her press convention on the Center for Protecting Human Rights in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 17, 2005.
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Mohammadi is presently serving a number of sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison amounting to about 12 years imprisonment, in response to the Front Line Defenders rights group, one of many many intervals she has been detained behind bars.
Charges embrace spreading propaganda in opposition to the state.
She is the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, a non-governmental group led by Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Mohammadi is the nineteenth lady to win the 122-year-old prize and the primary one since Maria Ressa of the Philippines gained the award in 2021 collectively with Russia’s Dmitry Muratov.
“This Nobel Prize will embolden Narges’ fight for human rights, but more importantly, this is in fact a prize for the ‘women, life and freedom’ movement,” Mohammadi’s husband Taghi Rahmani informed Reuters at his residence in Paris.
‘INSPIRATION TO THE WORLD’
The Nobel Peace Prize, value 11 million Swedish crowns, or round $1 million, will probably be offered in Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the dying of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who based the awards in his 1895 will.
Past winners vary from Martin Luther King to Nelson Mandela.
Committee head Reiss-Andersen started her speech by saying, in Farsi, the phrases for “woman, life, freedom” – the protest slogan – and saying the award acknowledged the a whole bunch of 1000’s who’ve opposed discrimination and oppression of ladies in Iran.
The award got here as rights teams say that an Iranian teenage woman was hospitalized in a coma after a confrontation on the Tehran metro for not sporting a hijab.
Iranian authorities deny the studies.
Mohammadi’s win additionally got here simply over a yr after the dying of Mahsa Amini within the custody of morality police for allegedly flouting the Islamic Republic’s gown code for ladies.
That provoked nationwide protests, the most important problem to Iran’s authorities in years, and was met with a lethal crackdown.
Among a stream of tributes from main international our bodies, the U.N. human rights workplace stated the Nobel award highlighted the bravery of Iranian ladies. “We’ve seen their courage and determination in the face of reprisals, intimidation, violence and detention,” stated its spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell .
“They’ve been harassed for what they do or don’t wear. There are increasingly stringent legal, social and economic measures against them … they are an inspiration to the world.”
Iranian feminine human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, seems to be on whereas attending a session within the former workplace of the Defenders of Human Rights Association in central Tehran, Iran on November 19, 2007.
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Mohammadi’s brother stated the prize was overwhelming and he hoped it could make Iranian campaigners safer. “The situation there is very dangerous, activists there can lose their lives,” Hamidreza Mohammed informed Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.
Dan Smith, head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute suppose tank, stated that whereas the prize may assist ease stress on Iranian dissidents, it could be unlikely to result in her launch.
(Reporting by Gwladys Fouche, Nerijus Adomaitis, Terje Solsvik and Tom Little in Oslo, Parisa Hafezi in Dubai, John Davison in Baghdad, Anthony Paone in Paris, Charlotte Van Campenhout in Brussels; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Andrew Cawthorne)
