For medical reasons
Iran temporarily releases Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi
She fought against the headscarf requirement in Iran, but the government locked her away. Years later, Nagres Mohammadi was released for a few weeks. Your supporters are demanding more.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned for three years, was temporarily released on medical grounds on Wednesday, according to her lawyer. The sentence was suspended for three weeks, lawyer Mostafa Nili explained on the online service X. The reason for the temporary release was her physical condition after the removal of a tumor. The tumor was benign, but Mohammadi had to be examined every three months.
Mohammadi’s family and supporters of the 52-year-old described the 21-day suspension of the sentence as “insufficient.” “We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi” or at least the extension of her temporary release to three months, they said.
Mohammadi rebelled against dress codes in Iran
Mohammadi has been in custody in Tehran since November 2021 and has spent much of the past decade in prison. She has been repeatedly convicted and imprisoned over the past 25 years because of her work against the compulsory headscarf for women and against the death penalty. In June she was sentenced to another year in prison for “propaganda against the state.”
In 2023, Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has had a strict dress code for women. Among other things, this obliges them to hide their hair in public.
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