Iran’s Nobel Prize-winning women’s rights activist and journalist Nargis Mohammadi, who was in jail, has been released on bail for 3 weeks. Nargis has been in jail since November 2021. She was arrested by the Iranian government for campaigning against the death penalty and hijab. Nargis was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for raising her voice for women’s freedom and their rights. Information about Nargis’ release has been posted by her lawyer Mustafa Neeli on social media platform X. The post states that on the advice of doctors, the government has suspended Nargis’ sentence for 3 weeks. She has also been released. Nargis’ family and supporters have expressed displeasure over her release for just 3 weeks. Nargis’ family has demanded her release for at least 3 months. 52-year-old Nargis was sentenced to 31 years 52-year-old Nargis was imprisoned in Iran’s Ivan jail. She was sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. In 2023, Nargis’s family arrived in Oslo, the capital of Norway, to receive her Nobel Prize. After this, the Iranian government sentenced Nargis to an additional 15 months. Nargis was born on 21 April 1972 in Janjan city of Kurdistan Iran. She studied physics. After completing her studies, she worked as an engineer. She was also a columnist. She wrote for many newspapers. Nargis had been raising her voice for women’s rights since the 1990s. In 2003, she started working at the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran. According to the Nobel Prize website, Nargis Mohammadi was first jailed in 2011 for trying to help imprisoned activists and their families. Nargis has not met her children for 8 years In an interview given to the New York Times in June last year, Nargis had said that she has not seen her children for 8 years. She last heard the voice of her twin daughters Ali and Kiana a year ago. Both of Nargis’s daughters live in France with her husband Tagi Rahmani. Actually, Tagi is also a political activist. Who was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the Iranian government. Nargis has also written a book named White Torture. Despite all the efforts of the Iranian government, Mohammadi’s voice could not be suppressed. While in jail, he started recording the suffering of fellow prisoners. Eventually, he put down the entire details of the conversation with the prisoners in the book White Torture. In 2022, he was also awarded the Courage Award of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). —————————— Also read this news related to Iran… Student started roaming naked in Tehran, Iran: Police beat her in custody; Clothes were taken off in protest against sexual harassment. A case of a student roaming around naked has come to light in Iran’s capital Tehran. According to news agency AFP, this incident took place on Saturday at Tehran’s Azad University of Science and Research. Here, a student of the university took off her clothes in protest against sexual harassment. Read the full news here…
