An image of Narges Mohammadi was projected onto Oslo's Central Hotel before her two children picked up the prize awarded by the Nobel Committee in her name last December, PHOTO: Javad Parsa / NTB Scanpix / Profimedia Images
The laureate of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, the Iranian Narges Mohammadi, was arrested in Iran, where she was provisionally released for medical reasons, her support committee announced on Friday, on the X, reports AFP, according to News.ro.
“The Narges Mohammadi Foundation has announced that it has received credible information that Narges Mohammadi was violently arrested by security and police forces at a commemoration ceremony seven days after (the death of) Khosrow Alikordi,” a lawyer who died last week, told the committee around 1 p.m. local time (11:30 a.m. Romanian time).
The laureate's French lawyer, Chirine Ardakani, confirmed this information for AFP.
Narges Mohammadi was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in prison in recognition of her three-decade campaign for women's rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran.
Mohammadi is serving several sentences in Tehran's infamous Evin prison, accused, among other things, of spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic.
In December 2024, she was released from Evin prison in Iran after her sentence was suspended so that the activist could undergo medical treatment.
