Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2023 and incarcerated in Tehran for three years, was released from prison for a few weeks due to health problems.
Iranian Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and incarcerated in Tehran since November 2021, was temporarily released from prison this Wednesday, December 4, for medical reasons, according to her lawyer. 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”.
“After a decade of imprisonment, Narges needs specialized medical care”
“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”, reacted from Paris, her support committee.
“After a decade of imprisonment, Narges needs specialized medical care in a safe environment,” the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said in a statement. 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.
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.” She had refused to attend the hearing of her trial after unsuccessfully requesting that it be open to the public.
In Iran, women have been required to follow a strict dress code, including covering their hair in public places, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
