Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi Jailed

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women's rights, has been sentenced to a new prison terms of over seven years in Iran. "She has been sentenced to six years in prison for gathering and collusion to commit crimes," lawyer Mostafa Nili said after the Saturday, local time, ruling, adding that she had also received a two-year ban on leaving the country. Mohammadi was also handed a one-and-a-half-year prison sentence for propaganda activities and is to be internally exiled for two years to the city of Khosf. Under Iranian law, jail sentences run concurrently. Over the past quarter-century, Mohammadi, 53, has been repeatedly tried and jailed for her vocal campaigning against Iran's use of capital punishment and the mandatory dress code for women. She has spent much of the past decade behind bars and has not seen her children, who live in Paris, since 2015. Mohammadi won the peace prize in 2023, primarily for her advocacy against capital punishment. Her children collected the award on her behalf.Over the past quarter-century, Mohammadi, 53, has been repeatedly tried and jailed for her vocal campaigning against Iran's use of capital punishment and the mandatory dress code for women. She has spent much of the past decade behind bars and has not seen her children, who live in Paris, since 2015. Mohammadi won the peace prize in 2023, primarily for her advocacy against capital punishment. Her children collected the award on her behalf. In December 2024, she was released on medical grounds, initially for three weeks, due to "her physical condition after the removal of a tumour and a bone graft", according to her lawyer. However, she ultimately spent much of last year outside custody, continuing to make statements in spite of her lawyers' fears she could be sent back to prison. Mohammadi was arrested on December 12 after denouncing the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi. The arrest came as Tehran renewed a crackdown on dissent during nearly three weeks of anti-government protests that started in late December.