ORThe Tehran court on Tuesday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to another year in prison for “propaganda against the system.” for criticizing the imposition of the veil and calling for a boycott of the parliamentary elections, in the sixth sentence against the imprisoned activist since 2021.
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“According to the verdict issued by Chamber 29 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, Mrs. Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to one year in prison for propaganda against the system,” the activist’s lawyer Mostafa Nili reported in X.
“Among the examples and reasons for issuing this ruling are his words about Mrs. Dina Qalibaf, his letter about the boycott of the parliamentary elections and the letter to the Parliaments of Sweden and Norway,” the lawyer added.
Despite the convictions and imprisonment, the activist has continued to denounce human rights violations in Iran, including the application of the death penalty or violence against women who do not wear the Islamic veil.
Mohammadi, 51 years old and imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison, has been sentenced six times since 2021 to a total of 13 years and three months in prison and 154 lashes, among other punishments.
Despite the convictions and imprisonment, the activist has continued to denounce human rights violations in Iran, including the application of the death penalty or violence against women who do not wear the Islamic veil.
Thus, Mohammadi denounced in April the new campaign to reimpose the use of the hijab and stated that the Iranian authorities have turned the streets of Iran into “a battlefield against women.”
And he reported the attack that the young woman suffered Dina Qalibaf, who was arrested in mid-April by the so-called morality police for not wearing the Islamic veil.
After her release, Qalibaf narrated on her
Dina Qalibaf (#دینا_قالیباف), a Bachelor’s student in Political Science at Beheshti University in Tehran, was arrested today by security forces at his home. Yesterday, she revealed the physical and verbal abuse she experienced during her arrest by police officers in the metro for… pic.twitter.com/YGgBEBbPAz
— WE ARE IRANIAN STUDENTS (@wais_global) April 16, 2024
Mohammadi also called for a boycott of the March 2024 parliamentary elections, which saw the lowest turnout (41%) in the 45 years of the Islamic Revolution.
At the end of last year, he sent a letter to the Parliaments of Norway and Sweden in which he stated that The Islamic Republic does not represent the people of Iran, which is why she has now also been convicted.
The activist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 “because of her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.”
Mohammadi and her fight for human and women’s rights in Iran
The activist was born in the northern city of Zanjan in 1972 into a middle-class family, the daughter of a cook and farmer.
She studied Physics and worked as an engineer, but she focused her career on journalism and soon began collaborating with civil society groups to work for the rights of women and minorities.
Those political concerns led her to join the Center for Human Rights Defendersa group founded by Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2003, and focused on the abolition of the death penalty.
Her husband, Taghi Rahmani, has spent 14 years behind bars, also for his activism, and lives in exile in Paris, with his twin children, who have not seen their mother for years.
His bravery has earned Mohammadi numerous recognitions, such as Reporters Without Borders Courage Award in 2022 or the UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize for Freedom of the Press last year.
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