Narges Mohammadi's Nobel Peace Prize · Narges Mohammadi

Culture of origin: Iranian · International

Holiday sources: Iran

Narges Mohammadi, a journalist and human-rights activist and deputy to Shirin Ebadi at the Defenders of Human Rights Center, received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize 'for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all'. She was being held in Evin Prison at the time. Between 1998 and October 2023 the regime arrested her 13 times and sentenced her to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes; she calls solitary confinement 'white torture'.