The Nobel Peace Prize announced on Friday for Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who is currently in prison, “highlights the courage and determination of women in Iran and how they inspire the world,” the Office for Human Rights spokeswoman emphasized of the United Nations, Liz Throssell.
“We saw this courage and determination in the face of repression, intimidation, violence and arrests,” emphasized the spokeswoman for the office headed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, a few minutes after the award was announced in Oslo.
Narges Mohammadi is a symbol of women, Iranian women, who are “harassed because of the way they dress and who suffer from increasingly restrictive legal and economic measures,” Throssell added at a press conference.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva, Alessandra Vellucci, added at the same press conference that the organization “will always support the rights of women around the world, including those in Iran, in places where attempts are being made to limit human rights. their human rights.”
Narges Mohammadi was awarded, as announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all.”
The Norwegian commission stated that the award “also recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression against women.”
Narges Mohammadi, who is serving a 16-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison complex, also received the UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize for Press Freedom this year and won the Reporters Without Borders Award for Courage (RSF) in 2022.
The Iranian activist has worked for several publications for many years and is also deputy director of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Center for Human Rights Defenders in Tehran.
NATO recognizes the courage of the Iranian woman who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday congratulated Iranian activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi on being awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, highlighting her “courage” in defending women’s rights in Iran.
“I congratulate Narges Mohammadi on winning the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. She has been courageous in her fight against the oppression of women,” Stoltenberg said on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
I congratulate Narges Mohammadi on winning the 2023 #Nobel Prize for Peace. You have been courageous in your fight against the oppression of women. Human rights and freedom for all are fundamental to peace. #Nobel Prize
– Jens Stoltenberg (@jensstoltenberg) October 6, 2023
The Norwegian politician added that “human rights and freedom for all are fundamental to peace.”
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for her “fight for the women of Iran against oppression,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced.
According to the committee, the choice of this activist, vice-chairman of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, was partly due to the struggle to “promote human rights and freedom for all”.
This year’s peace prize aims to “recognize the hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated last year against the Iranian theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression against women,” the Norwegian commission said.
Narges Mohammadi, who is currently imprisoned, was also praised for her “courageous struggle for freedom of expression and the right to independence,” which, as the Nobel Committee acknowledged, “came at enormous personal cost.”
Narges Mohammadi, who is serving a 16-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison complex, also received the UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize for Press Freedom this year and won the Reporters Without Borders Award for Courage (RSF) in 2022.
Source: DN
