Things to know about Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner

She holds a degree in physics and started her career as an engineer

Mohammadi emerged as an advocate for equality and women’s rights during her academic years

The activist lost her engineering post in 2009 following a jail sentence

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Narges Mohammadi worked as a journalist for several reformist publications

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Over the years she has written many articles arguing for social reforms in Iran and published an essay collection, The Reforms, the Strategy, and the Tactics

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Mohammadi was arrested for the first time in 2011 and sentenced to many years of imprisonment for her efforts to assist incarcerated activists

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She is the 19th woman to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman to win the award after Shirin Ebadi

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The 51-year-old deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center currently remains lodged in Tehran's Evin Prison

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She has been imprisoned 13 times and convicted five times

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