The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize goes to Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this on Friday morning.
The imprisoned human rights activist is being honored for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for human rights and freedom for all.”
Mohammadi is one of the best-known human rights activists in Iran and has been imprisoned several times. She is currently serving a sentence in the infamous Ewin prison in Tehran. During the nationwide uprisings against the Iranian power apparatus at the end of 2022, the activist published a report denouncing the torture of dozens of women in high-security prisons.
A total of 351 candidates were in the running for the world’s most important political prize, including 259 individuals and 92 organizations. Who it is won’t be revealed for another 50 years.
Last year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to imprisoned Belarusian human rights lawyer Ales Byaljazki, as well as to the human rights organizations Memorial from Russia and the Center for Civil Liberties from Ukraine. They were honored, among other things, for their commitment to civil society in their home country, the right to criticize power and the protection of the fundamental rights of citizens.
The prize has a value of approximately 940,000 euros
The Nobel Prizes go back to the dynamite inventor and prize donor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). Traditionally they are awarded on the anniversary of his death, December 10 – the Nobel Peace Prize is the only one in Oslo, all others in Stockholm.
The winners in the categories medicine, physics, chemistry and literature had already been announced in Stockholm from Monday to Thursday. At the end of this year’s prize announcements, the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences will follow on Monday. This year the prize is endowed with eleven million Swedish crowns (about 940,000 euros). The Nobel Foundation has increased the prize money by one million crowns compared to the previous year.
Source: Krone
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