Iranian activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned several times during her 30-year fight for women's rights, was sentenced on Sunday to a new seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence. His foundation confirmed, on the other hand, that it ended a six-day strike due to his deteriorating health.
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An Iranian court this Sunday, February 8, sentenced Narges Mohammadi, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, to seven and a half years in prison on several charges of conspiracy and propaganda, his tenth sentence since 2021.
The 53-year-old human rights activist was arrested on December 12 in the northeastern city of Mashhad, along with other activists, after attending a memorial service for a lawyer found dead.
"She was sentenced to six years in prison for charges of congregation and collusion, one and a half years in prison for propaganda activity, and as a complementary sentence, a two-year ban on leaving the country," her lawyer Mostafa Nili reported in X.
Under Iranian law, prison sentences cannot be accumulated.
Weeks of solitary confinement
Narges Mohammadi ended a six-day hunger strike this Sunday "amid reports of an extremely alarming physical condition," said the Narges Foundation, which warned that the activist's continued detention poses an immediate risk to her life and constitutes a violation of international human rights standards by preventing her from regular access to specialized medical care.
In its statement, the organization added that, after weeks of isolation, the activist informed her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, on Sunday that she had been sentenced on Saturday.
The lawyer, who was able to speak briefly with his client for the first time, almost two months after his arrest, "was not informed of this unfair trial," said Chirinne Ardakani, Narges Mohammadi's lawyer in France.
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Nili expressed hope that due to Mohammadi's poor health, she could be temporarily released on bail for medical treatment.
He also clarified that the verdict was not final and could be appealed.
Over the past 25 years, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been repeatedly tried and imprisoned for her activism against Iran's death penalty and strict dress code for women. The activist has been arrested thirteen times, convicted nine times, and was last imprisoned in 2021.
He has spent much of the last decade in prison and has not seen his two children, who live in Paris, since 2015.
In December 2024, she was released for three weeks for medical reasons related to her physical condition following the removal of a tumor and bone graft, according to her lawyer.
A symbol of militancy in Iran
Even behind bars, the Nobel Prize winner did not remain silent, organizing demonstrations in the prison yard and leading hunger strikes, and distinguished herself by defending the rights of political prisoners.
Born in 1972 in Zanjan, northwest Iran, Narges Mohammadi studied physics before becoming an engineer. He also developed a journalistic career, working for reformist newspapers.
In the 2000s, he joined the Center for Human Rights Defenders, founded by Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.
Narges Mohammadi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.
Iran ranks second globally in the number of executions, after China, according to human rights organizations including Amnesty International.
With AFP and EFE
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