Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi, winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize and already imprisoned in her country, was sentenced to a year in prison for “propaganda against the state”, announced his lawyer under X on Tuesday.
“According to the verdict of the 29th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to one year in prison for propaganda against the state,” said Mostafa Nili.
The 52-year-old activist, imprisoned since November 2021, has been convicted and imprisoned numerous times over the past 25 years for her commitment against the compulsory wearing of the veil for women and against the death penalty.
She refused to attend the hearing of her retrial on June 8, after unsuccessfully requesting that it be open to the public.
Lawyer Nili explained that his client had been tried for “her statements on Dina Ghalibaf (an Iranian journalist and student who had accused the police of sexual assault) and on the boycott of the legislative elections” which were held in Iran in March.
In March, the activist released an audio message from prison, denouncing a “large-scale war against women” in the Islamic Republic.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian women have been subject to a strict dress code that requires them to hide their hair in public places.
In his message, Mohamadi cited the case of Dina Ghalibaf who, according to an NGO, was arrested in mid-April after accusing the police, on social media, of sexually assaulting her during a previous arrest in secrecy.
She was later released.
Justice representative Mizan Online said on April 22 that the student had “not been raped” and that the judicial authority had prosecuted her for making “a misleading statement.”
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