2023-11-10 15:09:45
It’s a victory that may seem insignificant, but it represents a lot. Particularly in Iran. Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in Iranian jails, was transferred to hospital without covering her head. The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner then announced on Friday that she had stopped her hunger strike, according to a message sent by her family. “I was transferred from prison to hospital on Wednesday without wearing the obligatory veil,” she wrote in the English version of a message on Instagram sent to AFP by her relatives.
The fifty-year-old, who has been fighting for more than twenty years against the death penalty and against the compulsory veil imposed on women by the Islamic Republic, went on hunger strike on November 6, refusing to wear the headscarf for her transfer to the hospital. She suffers from heart problems and required urgent hospitalization. “After being hospitalized without having to cover myself and returning to prison, I ended my hunger strike,” she adds.
A fight against the oppression of women
Friends and relatives who were waiting for him at the hospital entrance were briefly arrested and questioned, their cameras confiscated. “The government feared that I would be seen without a veil,” according to Narges Mohammadi, who adds: “Until the hijab obligation is abolished, I will continue to walk uncovered, and you will tremble at the sight of women without veil “.
Arrested and sentenced many times for decades, in detention in Evin prison in Tehran since 2021, Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Prize in October for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for the promotion human rights and freedom for all.
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