Iran Sentences Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi to Six Years in Prison

Tehran. An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison. Lawyer Mostafa Nili said, "She has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of gathering and participating in a campaign to commit crimes during anti-government protests."

Mohammadi was also given an additional one-and-a-half-year sentence for propaganda activities, and she has been banned from traveling to the city of Khosf in the eastern province of South Khorasan for two years, her lawyer stated.

Under Iranian law, the prison sentence and this ban will be implemented concurrently. Nili expressed hope that Mohammadi could be temporarily "released on bail to receive treatment" due to her health problems.

He stated that the issued verdict is not final and can be appealed. Over the past 25 years, the 53-year-old Mohammadi has been repeatedly prosecuted and imprisoned for her vocal campaign against Iran's use of the death penalty and the mandatory dress code for women.

Mohammadi has spent most of the last decade in prison. She has also not been able to meet her twin children, who have been living in Paris since 2015.

According to her lawyer, she was released for three weeks in December 2024 on medical grounds related to her physical condition after receiving "bone treatment."

Nobel laureate Mohammadi has not remained silent even inside the prison. She continues to protest within the prison premises for women's rights and against the government's wrongdoings. She has also repeatedly gone on hunger strikes.

Mohammadi was primarily awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her campaign against the death penalty in Iran, but since she was in prison at that time, her children accepted the award on her behalf.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, state that Iran carries out more executions every year than any other country except China.