Narges Mohammadi has been frequently imprisoned and subjected to lashes over the past two decades.
US president Joe Biden said Narges Mohammadi has suffered repeated arrests, harassment, and torture at Tehran’s direction.
Biden said Mohammadi has suffered repeated arrests, harassment, and torture at Tehran’s direction, but said her “advocacy and determination has only grown stronger”, Anadolu Agency reported. “Mohammadi’s commitment to building the future that women and all people in Iran deserve is an inspiration to people everywhere who are fighting for human rights and basic human dignity. I urge the government in Iran to immediately release her and her fellow gender equality advocates from captivity,” he said.
In announcing her receipt of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Mohammadi, 51, “is a woman, a human rights advocate, and a freedom fighter.”
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