Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was “brutally” imprisoned in Iran and must be released immediately, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prize, said on Friday.
Mohammadi has already served a series of sentences on charges that included spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic. At the end of last year, she was released from Evin prison in Tehran after her sentence was suspended for medical treatment.
Mohammadi received the award in 2023 after three decades of campaigning for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran.
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“The Norwegian Nobel Committee calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately clarify Mohammadi’s whereabouts, guarantee her safety and integrity and release her without conditions,” the awarding body said in a statement.
The arrest comes one day after the arrival in Norway of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan Maria Corina Machado.
“Given the close collaboration between the regimes of Iran and Venezuela, the Norwegian Nobel Committee notes that Ms. Mohammadi was arrested at the time the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado,” the committee said.
