His family will receive the award this Sunday in Oslo. Mohammadi is imprisoned in Iran and is serving a ten-year prison sentence. Her husband has called on the West to have “a clear and stable strategy towards Iran.”
The Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi A hunger strike begins this Sunday, coinciding with the awards ceremony in Oslofor show solidarity with the persecution suffered by the Bahá’í religious minority in Iranwhere is it located put in prisonas announced by his family this Saturday.
The announcement took place during the traditional press conference at the Nobel Institute lon the eve of the Peace Prize presentationwhich Mohammadi will receive for him this year fights to defend the rights of Iranian women.
As explained by his husband, Taghi Rahmaniduring the performance, where they were also present his children Ali and Kianaall exiles in Francethe decision obeys the lack of religious freedom in this Asian country.
“Discrimination is institutionalized in Iran, the regime is a theocracy, it is the clerics who rule us,” Rahmani emphasized.
Moreover, he claimed so The West has a clear and stable strategy towards Iran In order for the pressure on the regime in Tehran to be effective: “The international community has contradictory characteristics. If the West supports democracy and human rights, it needs a stable and sustainable strategy. The current one is not clear and not understandable. it is constantly changing,” Rahmani explained.
The bahai religionconsidered one heresy by Muslims, was founded in the 19th century by an Iranian Shiite cleric and is currently practiced by nearly six million people in more than 200 countries, according to data from the community itself.
About 300,000 Baha’is currently live in Iran and report religious persecution, imprisonment and executions by the regime, charges denied by authorities.
This is Mohammed’s second hunger strike.
Mohammadi, 51, was on a three-day hunger strike last month protesting the lack of medical care in prison And the obligatory use of the Islamic veilafter she was refused admission to a hospital for a check-up because she refused to wear a hijab.
The Iranian activist complies with a prison sentence of ten years in Evin Prison in Tehran for “spreading propaganda against the state” and has been in and out of Iranian prisons for years.
His activism has cost him a lot of money 13 arrests, five sentences totaling 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.
Given the Iranian regime’s refusal to release Mohammadi, his father and children will be present at Oslo City Hall tomorrow to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in his place.
Source: EITB
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