Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi (51) recently won the Nobel Peace Prize (see video above). According to her family, she has now been denied much-needed medical treatment. The reason: she refused to wear the mandatory hijab.
Mohammadi was examined on Monday. Accordingly, her heart and lungs should have been checked urgently. The women’s rights activist must therefore be taken from her cell in Evin prison in Tehran to a heart clinic. However, that didn’t happen. The prison director informed the family that “it was forbidden by order of the higher authorities to send them to the heart clinic without a headscarf.”
According to her family, the Nobel Peace Prize winner is “willing to risk her life by not wearing the mandatory hijab, even for medical treatment.” Her relatives have now warned that Mohammed’s health and life are in danger. The 51-year-old had smuggled a message from her mobile herself. Requiring women to wear the hijab is a means of “control and oppression of society” on which the survival of “an authoritarian, religious government” depends, she wrote.
“Striving for freedom and equality”
“We, the Iranian people, strive for democracy, freedom, human rights and equality.” The authoritarian government must be replaced in solidarity and without violence. The process is “unstoppable,” “the victory is not easy, but certain.”
Mohammadi plays a central role in the fight for women’s rights and freedom of expression in Iran. For example, she campaigns against the mandatory headscarf and the death penalty. For this, she has been repeatedly imprisoned and flogged since 1998. She has been in prison since November 2021 for “propaganda against the state”. At the beginning of October, the activist received the Nobel Peace Prize. Her family has now fled to France, daughter Kiana and her twin brother Ali will receive the award on December 10 in Oslo.
Source: Krone
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