The Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, currently detained in her country, guarantees that “nothing” will “stop” her and that she will continue to “fight for freedom and equality”, even if it “costs” her own life.
On the day she receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, where she will be represented by her children, Narges Mohammadi, who has been fighting for women’s rights in Iran for decades, sends a message that will be read at the ceremony.
“Nothing will stop me. Nothing. Not prison, not psychological torture, not isolation, not sentence after sentence,” he emphasizes.
The activist continues and leaves a promise: “I will defend freedom and equality, even if it costs me my life.”
In October, announcing the prize, the president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee explained the choice of Narges Mohammadi with three words: “Women, life and freedom.”
Three symbols of a fight against the oppression of women in Iran and in favor of human rights and freedom for all.
However, this has been a struggle with a high price. In total, Narges was arrested 13 times, sentenced five times to a total of 31 years in prison, and also sentenced to 154 lashes.
Later, in an interview, the president of the Nobel Committee summarized: “She is the symbol of what it means to fight for peace.”
Narges’ fight continues for other women like Mahsa Amin, the young woman who died in an Iranian prison at the hands of the so-called customs police, accused of wearing the Islamic veil inappropriately.
Amin also received the Sakarov Prize from the European Parliament, but the family, who were due to receive it on Tuesday in Strasbourg, were prevented from boarding the plane.
by the Iranian authorities and saw their passports confiscated.
Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, has already demanded that Tehran authorize Amin’s family to travel, but the request has not yet been answered.
Narges is 51 years old, has spent most of the last two decades in prison and remains there. This Friday, International Human Rights Day, she is on hunger strike again.
Mohammadi, who campaigned against mandatory hijab wearing and the death penalty in Iran, will begin a hunger strike “in solidarity” with the Bahá’í religious minority, her brother and husband said at a news conference in the capital Norway, on January 1. The eve of the Nobel Prize ceremony.
The activist, who suffered a heart attack in 2022, began a hunger strike in November against the lack of medical care in prison and the mandatory wearing of the Islamic veil, after she was refused to go to a hospital for an appointment because she refused to wear the hijab.
The Iranian Government considered the awarding of the prize to the activist as “a political act” and a measure of “pressure” from the West.
The journalist and activist has not seen her children, who are in Paris, for eight years and they spend long periods in solitary confinement.
Source: TSF
