2023-12-09 16:51:46
Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, currently imprisoned in her country, will observe a new hunger strike on Sunday, the day of the presentation of her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo where she will be represented by her children, her family announced this Saturday 9 December.
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Narges Mohammadi, who campaigns in particular against the compulsory wearing of the hijab and the death penalty in Iran, will go on a hunger strike “in solidarity with the religious minority” Bahai, her brother and her husband said at a press conference in the Norwegian capital on the eve of the Nobel ceremony.
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“She is not here with us today, she is in prison and she will be on hunger strike in solidarity with a religious minority”said his younger brother, Hamidreza Mohammadi, in a brief opening statement.
Gesture of solidarity towards the Bahai minority
The husband of the 51-year-old activist, Taghi Rahmani, then clarified that this gesture of solidarity was aimed at the Bahai minority, two of whose leading figures are also observing a hunger strike. “She said ‘I’m going to start my hunger strike the day I get the prize and maybe the world will hear more about it'”he explained during the press conference.
The largest religious minority in Iran, the Bahai community is the target of discrimination in many sectors of society, its representatives believe. Detained since 2021 in Tehran’s Evin prison and in fragile health, Narges Mohammadi had already observed a hunger strike for a few days in early November to obtain the right to be transferred to hospital without covering her head.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in October for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all”, she has been arrested and convicted many times in recent decades. She is one of the main faces of the uprising “Woman, Life, Liberty” in Iran.
The movement, which saw women remove the veil, cut their hair and demonstrate in the streets, was sparked by the death last year of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, after her arrest in Tehran for non-compliance with the strict Islamic dress code. The protest was severely repressed.
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