Iranian Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and incarcerated in Tehran since 2021, was temporarily released from prison on Wednesday December 4 for medical reasons.
Three weeks of “freedom”. Iranian Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and incarcerated in Tehran since November 2021, was temporarily released from prison on Wednesday December 4 for medical reasons, according to her lawyer. She left prison chanting “Woman life freedom”, reports her husband.
Aged 52, the activist has been repeatedly convicted and imprisoned for 25 years for her commitment against compulsory veiling for women and against the death penalty. She spent much of the last decade in prison.
“According to the opinion of the forensic doctor, the Tehran prosecutor’s office suspended the execution of Narges Mohammadi’s sentence for three weeks,” said his lawyer, Me Mostafa Nili, specifying that the activist “was released from prison”.
“The reason for his release is his physical condition after the removal of a tumor and a bone graft carried out 21 days ago,” added Me Nili on the social network X, blocked in Iran.
The temporary release of Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace laureate in 2023, is “insufficient”, her support committee reacted from Paris. “After a decade of imprisonment, Narges needs specialized medical care in a safe environment,” the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said in a statement.
“Inmate of opinion”
In the process, the Nobel committee called on the Iranian authorities on Wednesday to permanently release the Iranian activist. “We call on the Iranian authorities to permanently end her imprisonment and ensure that she receives adequate medical treatment for her illnesses,” Nobel committee chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes said at a press conference. in Oslo.
Narges Mohammadi is serving a sentence in the women’s section of Evin prison in northern Tehran, with around fifty prisoners, according to her husband Taghi Rahmani.
Considered a “detainee of opinion” by Amnesty International, Narges Mohammadi has barely been able to see her children, Kiana and Ali, grow up, who have not seen her since 2015 and live in France.
Imprisoned, she was unable to receive the Nobel which had been awarded to her for her fight against the death penalty. In June, the Iranian activist was sentenced to another year in prison for “propaganda against the state.”
