2023-10-06 11:11:56
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday October 6 in Oslo to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who has been detained for a year in Tehran.
The 51-year-old activist and journalist is rewarded “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all”declared the president of the Norwegian Nobel committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen.
The journalist was sentenced in May 2016 to sixteen years in prison for her human rights activism, a sentence extended in August. She is vice-president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, led by Nobel Peace Prize-winning lawyer Shirin Ebadi.
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, last year the Nobel Prize was awarded to two non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Russian Memorial – officially dissolved in Russia – and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, as well as Belarusian opponent Ales Bialiatski.
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