Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in Iran, her supporters and lawyer announced today.
They added that she has been on a hunger strike since February 2nd.
This was confirmed by her lawyer Mostafa Nili in a post on Iks.
“She was sentenced to six years in prison for ‘association and conspiracy,’ a year and a half for propaganda, as well as a two-year travel ban,” he wrote.
Iran has not commented on this ruling.
Mohammadi was arrested in early December last year at a memorial service for a human rights lawyer who was found dead.
She was released from prison in December 2024 for medical reasons.
Although she was only supposed to be free for three weeks, she stayed longer, likely because activists and Western countries pressured Iran to allow her to remain free.
Mohammadi, meanwhile, continued her activism through public protests and appearances in foreign media, including demonstrations outside Tehran's Evin Prison, where she was detained.
The activist (52) has been repeatedly convicted and imprisoned over the past 25 years for her work against the mandatory veiling of women in Iran and against the death penalty. She has spent most of the last decade in prison.
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