Taghi Rahmadi, the husband of peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi, says he is happy for the award she has received. Mohammadi has been imprisoned 13 times and convicted five times. In total, she has been sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Photo: Reuters – The award goes to all women who are imprisoned, says news and repeats the movement’s slogan “women, life, freedom”. When news spoke to Rahmadi, who lives in exile in Paris with the couple’s 16-year-old twins, his wife had probably not yet learned that she had received the Nobel Peace Prize. She is imprisoned for her fight for women’s rights in Iran. Taghi Rahmani, the husband of the peace prize winner, has lived in exile in Paris with the couple’s two children since 2012, while his wife is imprisoned in Iran, where she is serving a twelve-year sentence. Photo: AFP The son checked the phone The son tells the New York Times that he was at school at 11, when the announcement from Oslo was to come. And that he was so excited that he had to check his phone under the desk. – I couldn’t shout out in class, but I was so happy. We are so afraid of mom every day. The Nobel Prize is an encouragement for her to continue, not to give up the fight, he says. He has not seen his mother since he was eight years old. Then she made breakfast for him and his twin sister before they were sent off to school. When they got home, she was gone. Speaking from prison Narges Mohammadi is imprisoned in the notorious Evin prison just outside the Iranian capital. A few hours after the news that she was this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a statement came from Mohammadi. – I will stay in Iran where I will continue my struggle together with those imprisoned in our oppressive institutions, even if I have to spend the rest of my life in prison, she says in the statement. – I will never stop the fight for democracy, freedom and equality. The Nobel Peace Prize will certainly make me more determined, persistent and hopeful, says Mohammadi in the statement. – I stand side by side with brave mothers in Iran. I will continue to fight relentless discrimination, tyranny and gender-based oppression by the oppressive, religious authorities, right up until the liberation of women. The prize money opens up opportunities The husband says that it is currently far too early to say how the prize money will be used, but hopes the prize will open up new opportunities in the work for women’s rights. He also adds that the award is important for all people, including men, and for freedom and democracy. Taghi Rahmadi is unsure what kind of political significance the award may have. Iran has many political prisoners, and Rahmadi expects that the news from Oslo will reach them sooner or later. Photo: Amanda Iversen Orlich / news Peace Prize winner’s brother: – It is overwhelming Hamidreza Mohammed, the brother of Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, tells news that his sister has worked hard for human rights. The brother now hopes that it will be safer for those in Iran. – The situation there is very dangerous, activists there can lose their lives. This price can make it safer, says Hamidreza Mohammed. He tells news that he woke up to the news that the award went to Iran and his sister. – The joy is so great. I am so happy on behalf of Narges, he says. – I don’t know if she will get the news right now, maybe a little later. If someone tells her in prison, the brother said when news caught up with him at 11.30am. – Not released under this regime If the regime continues to make case after case against her, she may never be released from prison, says the brother. – It is difficult to say that she can be released under this regime, says Mohammed. Mohammadi has been imprisoned 13 times and convicted five times. In total, she has been sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes, says the head of the Nobel Committee. – Mohammadi is still in prison when I speak now, said Berit Reiss-Andersen. This is the Nobel Committee’s reasoning The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 will go to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for human rights and freedom for all. “Zan – Zendegi – Azadi” “Woman – life – freedom.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 will go to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for human rights and freedom for all. Her brave fight has cost her dearly. Altogether, the authorities have arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Narges Mohammadi is still locked up. In September 2022, the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Jina Amini was killed in the custody of the Iranian morality police. The murder triggered the largest political demonstrations against the clerical regime since it came to power in 1979. Under the motto “Women – Life – Freedom”, several hundred thousand Iranians participated in peaceful protests against the authorities’ brutality and oppression of women. The clergy cracked down hard on the protests: more than 500 protesters were killed. Several thousand were injured, many blinded by the police’s rubber bullets. At least 20,000 were arrested and held in regime custody. The protestors’ slogan, “Woman – Life – Freedom”, covers Narges Mohammadis’ efforts and dedication. Woman. She fights women’s fight against systematic discrimination and oppression. Life. She supports women’s fight for the right to live full lives. This struggle has been met with persecution, imprisonment, torture and death. Freedom. She fights for the freedom to express herself and unfold herself; a fight against women having to hide and cover themselves. The protesters’ demand for freedom does not only apply to women, but to the entire population. Already in the 1990s, as a young physics student, Narges Mohammadi distinguished himself as a champion of equality and women’s rights. After her studies, she worked as an engineer and as a columnist in various reform-friendly newspapers. In 2003, she became associated with the Center for Defenders of Human Rights in Tehran. The center was founded by the peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi. In 2011, Narges Mohammadi was arrested for the first time, and sentenced to several years in prison for his work to help imprisoned activists and their relatives. Two years later, when she was released on bail, Narges Mohammadi threw herself into a campaign against the use of the death penalty. Iran has long been among the countries in the world that, relative to population, execute the most citizens per year. Since January 2022 alone, more than 860 prisoners have been sentenced to death. The fight against the use of the death penalty led to Narges Mohammadi being arrested again in 2015 and sentenced to another year behind bars. Back in prison, in 2015 she started a fight against the regime’s systematic use of torture and sexualized violence against political prisoners, especially women, in Iranian prisons. Last year’s wave of protests reached the political prisoners in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Again Narges Mohammadi took the lead. From prison, she expressed her support for the protesters and organized solidarity actions among the inmates. The prison authorities responded by making the sentencing conditions even stricter. Narges Mohammadi was banned from calling and receiving visitors. Nevertheless, she managed to smuggle out an article that the New York Times published on the first anniversary of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini. The message was: “The more of us they lock up, the stronger we become.” From prison, Narges Mohammadi has helped to ensure that the protests have not subsided. Narges Mohammadi is a woman, human rights defender and freedom hero. With this year’s prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will honor her courageous fight for human rights, freedom and democracy in Iran. The award is also recognition of the hundreds of thousands who, in the previous year, have protested against the clergy’s discrimination and oppression of women. Only through equal rights for all can the world achieve the fraternization of peoples that Alfred Nobel wanted to promote. The award to Narges Mohammadi is part of a long tradition in which the Norwegian Nobel Committee has given the peace prize to the fight for social justice, human rights and democracy. These are important prerequisites for lasting peace. Oslo, 6 October 2023 When asked how the actual awarding of the peace prize to Narges Mohammadi will be carried out on 10 December, Reiss-Andersen says that the Iranian authorities should release her from prison, so that she can receive the peace prize. Nobel committee leader Berit Reiss-Andersen with her mobile phone where she has a picture with Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB – Now the world has given notice to the regime Broren hopes the peace prize award will give Narges Mohammadi strength in her further work. – She has worked so hard for human rights. Now it becomes an even heavier responsibility. She gets a lot of power and responsibility from this in her further work. Now the world has informed the regime that “we see you”. See the full news interview with Hamidreza Mohammed: – Hope the prize will help the people The Iranian jurist Shirin Ebadi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, for her fight for democratic rights, especially for women and children in the priest-ruled country. 20 years later, her close ally, Narges Mohammadi, receives the same award. Ebadi, who had to leave Iran in 2009 and now lives in London, tells news that she is happy that Narges Mohammadi is being awarded this year’s peace prize. She sees Mohammadi as her second-in-command in the work for women’s rights in Iran, and hopes the award will benefit the entire Iranian people. – I am very happy. Narges has been imprisoned for many years because of her fight for human rights. – This is the second time the freedom struggle in Iran has received the peace prize. I hope that this award will help the people of Iran, says Shirin Ebadi. Shirin Ebadi (centre) and Narges Mohammadi (right) together before a press conference for the Center for the Protection of Human Rights in January 2005. On the left, journalist Marzieh Mortazi. Photo: Vahid Salemi / AP Asks Iran to release her The UN also asks Iran to release peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has made a statement after the award and says Narges sheds light on the courage and determination of Iranian women. – We have seen their courage and determination in the face of reprisals, violations, violence and imprisonment, says spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell. The Iranian news agency Fars writes that “the West has awarded the imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi with the Nobel Peace Prize for her actions that threaten the country’s national security”, reports Reuters. The “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in Iran The “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests are the powerful demonstrations in Iran that arose in the fall of 2022, when the Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini died after being in the custody of the morality police. Amini’s death sparked anger and frustration among large sections of the Iranian population, with women and young people in particular taking to the streets to demonstrate. “Woman, life, freedom” became a common slogan in the protests. The protest movement is the largest since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. During the autumn of 2022, the protests developed to include demands for regime change in the country. Source: Store norske lexikon – Stick against the regime Avisa Oslo journalist Sevda Barazesh was herself born in Iran and came as a refugee with her family as an eight-year-old. – Those are such big words. She is a woman. She hasn’t seen her children in so many years, but she has fought for a cause that she has thought bigger than herself, says Barazesh. – The award is incredibly deserved. It is very gratifying. And then it is a jab at the regime and shows the world and the Iranian Republic that we are on the side of the people, she says. Sevda Barazesh. Photo: Private Actress Sara Khorami, who has an Iranian background, says the award is a great recognition of her exceptionally courageous and tireless fight for basic human rights. – And this is happening at the same time that 16-year-old Armita Garawand is badly injured in a coma, supposedly for not having worn the compulsory hijab. – I hope and believe that this can give new hope, and add even more power to these brave people who risk their lives on a daily basis for freedom and democracy, she says.
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