Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to 15 more months in prison, after multiple sentences already resulting in 12 long years spent behind bars.
She is accused of spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic while in prison.Narges Mohammadi has campaigned for human rights in Iran for decades. She has been in and out of jail for two decades because of her activism. She has been arrested 13 times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison, reports the BBC. She is currently held in Evin prison, notorious in Iran.
As well as the additional months in prison, the new sentence orders Mohammadi to spend two years in exile outside Tehran. She will banned from traveling abroad, from membership of political and social groups and from having a mobile phone – all for two years.
The 51-year-old human rights activist has kept up her work despite the numerous threats and arrests.
She won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her work fighting against the oppression of women in Iran.
Remarkable, teenage children accepted the prize at Oslo’s city hall in October on her behalf, having not seen their mother for years. They read a speech which had been smuggled out of prison, where Ms Mohammadi denounced Iran’s “tyrannical” government. “I write this message from behind the high, cold walls of a prison. The Iranian people, with perseverance, will overcome repression and authoritarianism”, she said.
