Only temporarily – Nobel laureate Mohammadi released

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Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been temporarily released. Mohammadi’s lawyer said her prison sentence had been suspended by three weeks for medical reasons. The 52-year-old had a tumor removed.

Although the tumor was benign, it still required examination every three months. At the end of October, Mohammadi was granted a long-requested hospital stay. This was nine weeks too late, her husband Taghi Rahmani wrote. Human rights activists have long accused Iran’s judiciary of denying Mohammadi adequate medical care in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. The 52-year-old also suffers from heart failure.

Action against mandatory headscarves
The suspension of the three-week prison sentence for Mohammadi’s family does not go far enough. 21 days were “insufficient”, she should be given at least three months or, best of all, released “immediately and unconditionally”.

Here you see a tweet from the family of those arrested.

The 52-year-old has been in custody since November 2021 and has spent much of the past decade in prison. Over the past quarter century, she has been repeatedly convicted for her efforts against the mandatory headscarf for women and against the death penalty. In June she was sentenced to another year in prison for “propaganda against the state”.

Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women in Iran have had a strict dress code. This requires, among other things, that they cover their hair in public. Mohammadi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023. She received the award for her fight against the oppression of women, against the death penalty and for her commitment to human rights and freedom.

Source: Krone

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