The Nobel Peace Prize for Peace 2023 has been awarded, today in Narges Mohammadi, journalist and Iranian human rights activist imprisoned in Tehran.
The 51-year-old activist and journalist is awarded “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her struggle for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all,” the president of the Nobel Norwegian committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, told Oslo.
Vice-president of the Center for Defenders of Human Rights founded by Shirin Ebadi, also Nobel Prize in 2003, Narges Mohammadi has been repeatedly condemned and imprisoned for 25 years for his commitment against compulsory veil for women, and the death penalty.
