A revolutionary court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to seven and a half years in prison on several charges of conspiracy and propaganda against the system, in what is already the tenth sentence against the imprisoned activist since 2021.
As reported by her lawyer Mostafa Nili through her
On hunger strike for six days
The activist, who had been detained 59 days ago, spoke with her lawyer this morning and informed him that she has been transferred to the first room of the Revolutionary Court of Mashad (northeast) and after the hearing a sentence was handed down against her. Her lawyer has indicated that, due to her poor health, she should be released.
Mohammadi was violently detained in mid-December along with other activists during a funeral ceremony for a lawyer in the city of Mashad. Due to this fact, he began a hunger strike six days ago, during which he has been “in absolute isolation and with communications completely cut off,” in the words of his lawyer.
The sentence comes after protests that shook Iran in December and January calling for the end of the Islamic Republic. The Iranian Government has acknowledged the deaths of 3,117 people in violence that it attributes to the United States and Israel, but the opposition NGO HRANA, based in the United States, places them at 6,961, although it continues to verify more than 11,000 possible deaths.
Thirteenth time arrested
In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize winner, other activists have been arrested such as screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, nominated for an Oscar for the film ‘A Simple Accident’, Vida Rabbani, Abdullah Momeni and Ghorban Behzadian-Nejad.
This is the 13th time Mohammadi has been arrested. She has been convicted in nine of them and in 2021 she was imprisoned for the last time. Despite this, the activist has continued to denounce violations of fundamental rights in Iran, including the application of the death penalty and violence against women who do not wear the Islamic veil. In 2023, the Norwegian Committee awarded her the award for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
