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07/10/23 06:53 AM IST

Nobel Prize for Peace

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  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace, “For her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”.
Narges Mohammadi
  • She holds a degree in physics and started her career as an engineer. Mohammadi emerged as an advocate for equality and women’s rights during her academic years, writing for the student newspaper. She was also arrested at two meetings of a political student group. The activist lost her engineering post in 2009 following a jail sentence.
  • Narges Mohammadi worked as a journalist for several reformist publications and campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty, women’s rights and the right to protest. 
  • Over the years she has written many articles arguing for social reforms in Iran and published an essay collection, The Reforms, the Strategy, and the Tactics. Her book 'White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners' also won an award for reportage at the International Film Festival and Human Rights’ Forum.
  • Mohammadi was arrested for the first time in 2011 and sentenced to many years of imprisonment for her efforts to assist incarcerated activists and their families.
  • She married fellow activist and scribe Taghi Rahmani in 1999 – just before the latter was arrested for the first time. The duo share twin children who currently live in France. Rahmani relocated after 14 years of prison sentences in Iran while Mohammadi remained to continue her work.
  • Mohammadi is the 19th woman to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman to win the award – after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi in 2003. It is also the fifth time in the 122-year history of the awards that the peace prize has been given to someone who is in prison or under house arrest.
  • Mohammadi has received various awards over the years -- from the Alexander Langer Award in 2009 to the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize and the Olof Palme Prize earlier in 2023. Ebadi also dedicated her 2010 Felix Ermacora Human Rights Award to Mohammadi.
Source- Indian Express

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