Iranian activist Narges Mohamadiaward winner Nobel Peace Prize 2023will start next Sunday new hunger strike He is serving his sentence in the Iranian prison Evin in Tehran.
In a message posted on his official Instagram account carried by his family, Mohamadi announced on December 10, coinciding with International Human Rights Day: Will join the hunger strike launched by Baha’i women – a religion considered apostate by Iranian authorities – was imprisoned in Evin.
“There is hardly a day when we do not hear the screams of the mothers and fathers of the protesters in Iran, the detainees, the tortured women locked in solitary cells in security cells, the women. They were attacked and oppressed,” Mohamadi condemned.
51-year-old Mohamadi passed away spent most of the last 20 years of his life in prison and was convicted up to five times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison.
Throughout his life of activism, Mohamadi founded associations. Written books and articles condemning women’s rights and especially the abuses they sufferespecially in the country’s prisons.
For her journalistic work, Mohamadi, along with her Iranian colleagues Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohamadi, were awarded the United Nations World Press Freedom Award in May this year.
The latest sentence against him included a sentence of ten years and eight months in prison for “crimes related to national security and propaganda against the State”, as well as 154 lashes. International humanitarian organizations condemned it as retribution for his activism.
The activist’s relatives and friends have repeatedly demanded Mohamadi’s release on humanitarian grounds after he suffered a heart attack last year that required emergency surgery.