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By Omayma othmani
Published: October 6, 2023
The Iranian activist and imprisoned women's rights defender Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023.
The prize was awarded to Narges Mohammadi for her struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all, among 259 individuals and 92 organizations nominated for the award.
Currently, Narges is serving multiple sentences in Evin Prison in Tehran, with a total of approximately 12 years of punishment according to the organization Front Line Defenders, which focuses on rights advocacy. This is one of many periods she has been held behind bars, with charges including spreading propaganda against the state.
Narges is the Vice President of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, a non-governmental organization led by Shirin Ebadi, who also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
She is the nineteenth woman to win the award, which has been given for 122 years, and the first since Filipina Maria Ressa won the prize in 2021, alongside Russian Dmitry Muratov.
The Nobel Peace Prize, valued at 11 million Swedish kronor (around one million dollars), will be awarded in Oslo on December 10, a date coinciding with the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, who established the prize in his will in 1895.
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