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The Norwegian Nobel Committee appeals It’s Iran Stop the physical abuse and life-threatening treatment of Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned since December.
The committee said it had received “credible reports” that Mohammadi had been subjected to “life-threatening abuse”. Mohammadi was an activist who was arrested by undercover agents while peacefully attending the funeral of the late human rights lawyer and advocate Khosrow Alikodi.
The commission said Mohammadi was beaten with wooden sticks and batons, his hair was dragged across the ground and parts of his scalp were torn, causing open wounds.
Ali and Kiana Rahmani, children of imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, accept the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of their mother at City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via Reuters)
In addition, she was kicked multiple times in her genitals and pelvic area, leaving her unable to sit or move without severe pain and raising concerns of serious fractures.
“committee “We are appalled by these actions and reiterate that Ms Mohammadi’s imprisonment is arbitrary and unjust. Her only ‘crime’ was the peaceful exercise of her fundamental rights – freedom of expression, association and assembly – in defense of women’s equality and human dignity,” committee chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes said in a statement.
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Ali Rahmani, the son of imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, spoke after accepting the award on his mother’s behalf at Oslo City Hall in Norway after winning the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. (NTB/Fredrik Varfjell, Reuters)
An Iranian prosecutor told reporters at the time of his arrest that Mohammadi made provocative remarks at a memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad and encouraged those present to “shout slogans that violate norms” and “disrupt the peace,” Reuters reported.
Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, has spent much of the past 20 years amid Iran’s notorious situation. avon prison.
The committee called on Tehran to release Mohammadi and guarantee her access to medical care.
On January 19, 2026, the National Tax Building on a street in Tehran, Iran, was burned down during protests in Iran. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)
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“What happened to Mohammadi is yet another brutal example of the brutal crackdown that has followed mass protests in Iran, with countless women and men risking their lives to demand freedom, equality and basic human rights,” the report said.
