Mohammadi is recognized and commended for her courageous efforts in combatting the pervasive gender inequalities that women in Iran face, despite enduring significant personal sacrifices in the process.
Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned advocate for women's rights in Iran, has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering commitment to combating the oppression of women and promoting human rights and freedom. This significant recognition was bestowed upon her by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Berit Reiss-Andersen, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, acknowledged Mohammadi's courageous struggle and the immense personal sacrifices she has made. Throughout her activism, she has been subjected to multiple arrests, with a total of 13 detentions, five convictions, and a combined prison sentence of 31 years along with 154 lashes.
Mohammadi stands as one of Iran's prominent advocates for human rights, specifically championing women's rights and advocating for the abolition of the death penalty. Presently, she is serving a lengthy imprisonment of approximately 12 years in Tehran's Evin prison, according to Front Line Defenders, an organization dedicated to protecting human rights defenders. The charges brought against her include the dissemination of propaganda against the state.
As the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, a non-governmental organization headed by Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mohammadi has been actively involved in advancing the cause of human rights. Her remarkable achievement makes her the 19th woman to be honored with this 122-year-old prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee meticulously selected Mohammadi from a pool of 351 candidates, comprising 259 individuals and 92 organizations, to receive this distinguished global peace prize. In the previous year, the prize was awarded to Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate from Belarus, as well as the Russian human rights group Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties. These recipients were recognized for their longstanding efforts to safeguard citizens' fundamental rights and foster the freedom to criticize those in power, a particularly significant accolade given the backdrop of Russia's all-out war in Ukraine at that time.
Unlike the other Nobel prizes, the Peace Prize is presented in Oslo, Norway's capital, rather than in Stockholm, Sweden. Throughout the past week, the Nobel prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature have been unveiled, with the final prize, in economics, scheduled to be announced on Monday. Each prize carries a value of 11 million krona ($990,000) in its respective category.
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