2023-11-06 14:37:00
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, began a hunger strike in prison to protest against the lack of medical care for prisoners and the mandatory veil for women, her family announced this Monday.
“Narges Mohammadi informed his family that he began a hunger strike several hours ago. We are concerned about his condition and health,” his family said in a statement.
Mohammadi, 51, has been detained since 2021 in Evin prison in Tehran, although this activist against the death penalty and for women’s rights was previously detained and sentenced on several occasions.
On Thursday, her family already reported that the prison authorities refused to transfer the journalist, whose health is fragile, to the hospital because she did not want to cover her head with a veil.
His relatives warned that, according to an electrocardiogram performed in prison, he needed urgent hospitalization.
“The Islamic Republic is responsible for everything that may happen to our beloved Narges,” the statement said.
Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran.”
The award was given following a protest movement in Iran over the death in police custody a year ago of Mahsa Amini, arrested for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
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