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UN condemns Iran's treatment of girls, women
Oped, Published on 15/03/2024
» The Iranian regime has been firmly condemned by a UN fact-finding mission investigating the unprovoked killing of Mahsa Amini two years ago, in an incident that set off nationwide protests. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old student, according to a UN fact-finding mission, died in police custody after violating the Islamic Republic's strict "morality rules" requiring women to wear the headscarf.
Iran adds prison time for Nobel winner
New York Times, Published on 16/01/2024
» The Iranian regime sentenced Narges Mohammadi, the jailed human rights activist who received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, to 15 more months in prison, her family said Monday.
Iran accuses jailed Swedish EU diplomat of conspiring with Israel
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have accused a Swedish EU diplomat, held in a Tehran prison for more than 600 days, of conspiring with Iran's arch-enemy Israel, the judiciary said Sunday.
Iran's jailed Narges Mohammadi to receive Nobel Peace Prize in absentia
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» OSLO - The Nobel Peace Prize will be handed out in Oslo on Sunday but with the notable absence of winner Narges Mohammadi, currently in prison, who will be represented by her children.
Children of jailed Nobel winner prepare to accept her prize
Published on 09/12/2023
» OSLO - The teenage children of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi fear they will never meet their mother again, but said they were proud of her struggle for women’s rights as they prepared to accept the award on her behalf on Sunday.
Jailed Iranian Nobel winner begins hunger strike: family
AFP, Published on 06/11/2023
» PARIS - Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike in her Iranian prison in protest at limits on medical care for her and other inmates, as well as the obligation for women to wear the hijab in the Islamic republic, her family said on Monday.
Peace prize winner smuggles message out of cell
AFP, Published on 01/11/2023
» OSLO - "Victory is not easy, but it is certain," imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner and women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi said in a message smuggled out of her Tehran cell and published late Tuesday.
EU awards rights prize to Iranian woman who died in custody
AFP, Published on 19/10/2023
» STRASBOURG, France - The European Union on Thursday awarded its top rights honour, the Sakharov Prize, to Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in Iranian custody a year ago, and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement that her death triggered.
Change in Iran ‘irreversible’, says Nobel winner
AFP, Published on 06/10/2023
» PARIS - Rights campaigner and 2023 Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi said in a September interview with AFP that she retained hope for change in Iran, despite having no prospect of release from prison and enduring the pain of separation from her family.
Jailed Iranian woman wins Nobel Peace Prize
Published on 06/10/2023
» The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to imprisoned rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, honoured for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran.