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Narges Mohammadi (archive image: undated)

As of: February 8, 2026 7:59 p.m

The Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammadi has been sentenced once more to a jail sentence of a number of years. According to her lawyer, it was about allegations of conspiracy. Mohammadi is in critical well being situation.

Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to an extra seven and a half years in jail. The courtroom sentenced her to 6 years in jail for “gathering and collusion to commit crimes,” stated lawyer Mostafa Nili. It additionally imposed a two-year journey ban on Mohammadi and exiled her to town of Chosf within the japanese Iranian province of South Khorasan for 2 years.

According to her lawyer, Mohammadi was additionally sentenced to at least one and a half years in jail for propaganda actions. However, in line with Iranian regulation, a number of particular person sentences will not be added to a complete sentence, however solely the longest sentence is carried out. The judgment isn’t but remaining and may nonetheless be appealed.

hope for launch well being Found

The lawyer expressed hope that Mohammadi may very well be quickly “released on bail to receive treatment” as a result of well being issues. Three days in the past, she was taken from Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison to a clinic due to her poor bodily situation, however was then returned to custody once more.

Mohammadi was arrested once more on December 12 at a memorial service for a lawyer who was discovered useless. Prosecutor Hasan Hematifar advised reporters on the time that she had made provocative statements on the memorial service within the northeastern metropolis of Mashhad, urging these current to “chant norm-breaking slogans” and “disturb the peace.”

In and out of jail for ten years

The 53-year-old Mohammadi has been tried and imprisoned repeatedly over the previous 25 years due to her work in opposition to the obligatory headband and the loss of life penalty in Iran. She has spent a lot of the previous decade in jail and has not seen her two kids, who dwell in Paris, since 2015.

In 2023, Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on human rights. Her two kids accepted the award on her behalf in Oslo.

In December 2024, Mohammadi was quickly launched from her detention in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison for well being causes; in line with her legal professionals, she had beforehand had a tumor eliminated.

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