Narges Mohammadi, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, arrested once more | EUROtoday
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Un 12 months after her launch from jail for well being causes, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, was arrested by safety forces whereas she participated within the commemorations of the demise of Iranian lawyer Khosrow Alikordi in Mashhad, within the north-west of Iran, her assist committee revealed this Friday, December 12. “Narges Mohammadi was violently arrested by security and police forces about an hour ago, during the seventh day ceremony in memory of Khosrow Alikordi,” mentioned the Narges Mohammadi Foundation. Information confirmed on Instagram by his French lawyer, Me Chirinne Ardakani.
Human rights defender, identified for having assisted demonstrators, political prisoners and different victims of repression in Iran, Khosrow Alikordi was discovered lifeless in suspicious situations on December 6 in his workplace in Mashhad. If the Iranian authorities talked about a coronary heart assault, the sufferer’s relations declare that his physique bore traces of bruising, head trauma and bleeding from the nostril and mouth, based on the human rights NGO Iran Human Rights.
Opposed to the obligatory veil
Aged 53, Narges Mohammadi has spent many of the final ten years in jail for her dedication in opposition to obligatory veiling for girls and in opposition to the demise penalty. This unbridled activism led to her being sentenced once more in June 2024 to 1 12 months in jail for “propaganda against the state”. Operated for a bone tumor in her leg, she solely owed her provisional launch on December 4, 2024 to the deterioration of her state of well being.
This didn’t stop her from showing bareheaded and in a costume on her stretcher, upon her launch from jail, chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom”, the motto of the ladies’s revolution in Iran. Nor to extend the variety of interviews with the overseas press to warn in regards to the destiny of Iranian civil society, sufferer of elevated repression by the Islamic authorities for the reason that finish of the twelve-day warfare between Israel and Iran.
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In a video of the commemorations of the demise of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, broadcast this Friday by the specialised website Dadban, we see the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, hair blowing within the wind and with out a obligatory veil, haranguing the gang by chanting the title of Majidreza Rahnavard, an Iranian protester executed in public in Mashhad on December 12, 2022, simply three years in the past. Barely moments later, she was violently arrested by safety forces, says her assist committee.
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