2024-09-16 12:06:35
Even prison did not prevent him from speaking out. Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi called on the world countries this Monday to act against the oppression of women in Iran, exactly two years after the beginning of the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement.
“I call on international companies and people to do it. I ask the United Nations to come out of its silence and inaction in the face of the destructive oppression and discrimination that governments and authorities do to women, by being gender-based racism,” said Narges Mohammadi in this speech on the social network.
Referring to “these two terrible years” and the “dead way to travel”, he affirmed that “nothing (will) be the same again” and that “change (will) be wise the foundations of religious violence”. On the second anniversary of “Woman, Life, Freedom”, “we renew our commitment to achieve democracy, freedom, equality, and to defeat the madness of government,” he concluded.
The hunger strike began
The Iranian women’s rights activist has been in prison since November 2021. In 25 years of fighting, she has been imprisoned several times, mainly because of her commitment against the compulsory veil for women and against the death penalty. While behind bars, he was sentenced to an additional year in prison for “propaganda against the state” last March. It had been ten years since he had last seen his children, living in France with their father in exile.
On Sunday, along with 33 other prisoners, the Nobel Peace Prize winner began a 24-hour hunger strike to “commemorate” the second anniversary of the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement and the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.
This young woman was arrested because she did not respect the dress code of Islam. Her death sparked a wave of protests that lasted months during demonstrations, led by women, against compulsory veiling and anti-religion. At least 551 people were killed during this period, some were killed, and thousands more were arrested, according to human rights NGOs.
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