Women, Life, Freedom: Jailed Iranian activist awarded with Nobel Peace Prize

Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023.

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Mohammadi, currently imprisoned, has been awarded the prestigious prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran

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She fights to promote human rights and freedom for all and she was part of the women rights protest of 2022 in Iran

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The Iranian regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes

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An engineer by profession, Narges Mohammadi had started to distinguish herself as an advocate of women’s rights in the 1990s itself.

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She also worked as a columnist in various reform-minded newspapers.

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