10 December 2003: Shirin Ebadi accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo City Hall. She makes history as the first Iranian to receive the award. And as the first Muslim woman. 10 December 2023: Shirin Ebadi is back in Oslo City Hall. She watches the children of her friend and former colleague, Narges Mohammadi, receive the award – the diploma and the famous gold medal – on behalf of their mother. And she hears the speech smuggled out of Evin prison outside Tehran. Shirin Ebadi on her way into Oslo City Hall to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. Photo: Tor Richardsen / NTB Shirin Ebadi was applauded when she was in Oslo City Hall on Sunday to see the awarding of the peace prize to her friend and colleague, Narges Mohammadi. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB – The Peace Prize shows the regime that the world is watching Iran. I really hope that the Iranian regime takes this warning to heart and improves, says Shirin Ebadi (76) to news. The same award, 20 years after news spoke to the peace prize winner the day after it was announced that the imprisoned Iranian woman Narges Mohammadi will receive this year’s peace prize. And met her the day after the award, at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. There she participated together with other famous Iranian women. All now live outside Iran. Shirin Ebadi was in Paris when she learned in 2003 that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She traveled home to Tehran, where she was greeted by jubilant compatriots. And she traveled to Oslo to receive the award. This was during the so-called “reform era”. Facts about Shirin Ebadi Is trained as a lawyer and in 1975 became a judge in Tehran. After the revolution in 1979, she had to resign from her position, as the new rulers considered female judges to be against Islam. From 1992 she has worked as a lawyer. Among other things, she has represented a number of opposition parties and their family members. She has fought for human rights and especially for women’s and children’s rights. As a result of her work, she has been imprisoned, placed under house arrest and harassed by the authorities. In 1997, Ebadi actively participated in the campaign to elect the reformist Mohammad Khatami as president of Iran. Was awarded the Rafto prize in 2001 for his fight for human rights and democratic development in Iran. In 2003, she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for democracy and human rights. But in the years that followed, the clerical regime made life far more difficult for Ebadi, who was Iran’s first female judge in her time. The husband was arrested and tortured. Family members persecuted. Bank accounts were blocked. Finally, she left her homeland. The Nobel medal and the Nobel diploma were seized, taken out of the family’s safe. When Ebadi left, Narges Mohammadi was deputy director of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, which Ebadi had helped start. Facts about Narges Mohammadi Iranian journalist and human rights activist. Currently in prison. Age 51 Born in Zanjian, Iran on 21 April 1972. Vice President of Defenders of Human Rights (DHRC), which is chaired by Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi. Has been imprisoned several times. Was imprisoned in 2021 when she attended the memorial service for Ebrahim Ketbadar, who was killed during a demonstration. The fact that she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize was then highlighted as hostile activity. Said in 2022 that she had been sentenced to prison for 8 years and 2 months, as well as 74 lashes. The punishment was later extended. Has accused the prison service of sexual and physical abuse against female inmates. Source: NTB The center defended political prisoners, supported their families when they needed help and reported on human rights violations. Shirin Ebadi (left) and Narges Mohammadi. Here from a meeting on women’s rights in Tehran, Iran, 27 August 2007. Photo: AP – Has only become even more brutal Shirin Ebadi says the arrow for Iran has pointed the wrong way from 2003 until now. Both the people and the regime have developed – but in opposite directions: – In the last 20 years, Iranians have become braver and stronger. They continue the fight even if they are arrested and killed. – The Iranian regime has become more brutal because Iranians show more resistance and have become stronger. The regime has become more violent because they are afraid now, says Ebadi. Ali Rahmani made the V sign that symbolizes victory for Iranian women when he and his sister Kiana received the peace prize on behalf of their mother. Photo: NTB Wanted the peace prize for a general In 2003, Ebadi received, admittedly after a few hours of hesitation and a lot of back and forth, a congratulation from the Iranian government. In 2003, the tone was completely different: – The regime’s reaction to the peace prize has been completely ridiculous. They have gone so far as to say that the award has not been given to a genuine human rights defender. That it is only politically motivated, she says. – According to the regime, the Nobel Committee should have given the prize to Qasem Soleimani, if they had had a sincere desire to give it to a champion of peace. The former general belonged to the powerful Revolutionary Guard. Among other things, he had led the Al Quds force, which is responsible for international military and secret operations. He had fought for the Iranian regime in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and was killed in an American drone attack during a visit to Baghdad in 2020. Iran’s embassy in Oslo believes that the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian Narges Mohammadi shows that the Nobel Committee is political. – The Iranian embassy strongly condemns the political awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize and expresses its deepest regret for this committee’s goals and abuse of human rights and peace as a tool for political goals, the embassy writes in a press release. Read the full press release from the Iranian embassy at the bottom of the case. The chair that Narges Mohammadi should have sat in Oslo City Hall was empty. Children Ali and Kiana Rahmani, who stood in for their mother, have not seen her for eight years. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Strong women’s struggle in Iran In the past year, the world has seen Iranian women take to the streets and protest loudly. Triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. The death led to the biggest wave of opposition in the country in several years. This autumn, 16-year-old Armita Geravand died. The two young women reportedly died after being arrested for violating the country’s ban on covering their hair. Amini is supposed to have her headscarf too far behind, Geravand is said to have dared to go without. The female political prisoners in Evin prison have also joined the protests, led by Narges Mohammadi. She has heard stories about how her young female fellow prisoners, brought in after the protests, are being tortured. – I have great hope that the people will win over the regime, and that there will be democracy and freedom in Iran. – It gives hope that girls, boys, women and men took to the streets. We must get rid of this regime, says Ebadi firmly. The Iranian women who took part in the torchlight procession to pay tribute to this year’s peace prize winner pointed out that she is imprisoned in her home country. Photo: Hanna Johre / NTB 31 years in prison and 154 lashes Narges Mohammadi becomes the fourth peace prize winner in history to be imprisoned when the prize is awarded. Ebadi doubts that the peace prize will change Mohammadi’s prison life. – I sincerely hope that this regime will have enough knowledge to understand that it is nothing but a source of shame to keep a Nobel Prize winner in prison. – But unfortunately I have the benefit of seeing some signs of wisdom from the current regime in Iran, says Ebadi. Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani stood up and sang along with singer Mahsa Vahdat during the dinner. A shame Narges Mohammadi’s husband Taghi Rahmani was imprisoned for 17 years. He was actually going to prison again after being released, but managed to escape. He now lives in Paris with his children Kiana and Ali. Shirin Ebadi believes they are safe as long as they live in Europe. – I doubt that the family will be in danger in a European country. It is nevertheless extremely sad that these children grow up without their mother. They can neither see nor talk to their mother, and that is a shame, says Ebadi. – I can still assure you that this will affect the lives of her children. Their mother will be their great role model and they will continue her struggle. Press statement from the Iranian embassy The Iranian embassy writes the following in a press release about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize: Unfortunately, on Sunday, December 10, the biased political show of the Nobel Peace Committee against Iran was held in Oslo. This show demonstrates the instrumental use of valuable concepts like peace and human rights for political purposes and to impose pressure on other countries. The action of this committee in the past in awarding peace prizes to criminals such as Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres, who were responsible for killing several thousands of the oppressed and innocent Palestinians, proves the political nature of this committee. It is not far from the expectation that one day we will see the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to another criminal like Netanyahu. This ceremony was held at a time when the world has been witnessing the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli regime with the deadly silence of so-called human rights defenders or their passive position against heinous crimes of the Israeli regime or recognition of the so-called right of defense of a child-killing regime. This situation explicitly demonstrates their hypocrisy based on a double standards approach regarding human rights and peace. Meanwhile, inviting the leader of the Komala terrorist group to this ceremony shows the malicious intention of the sponsors and supporters of this ceremony. Inviting the leader of a terrorist group whose hands are stained with the blood of thousands of people cannot be justified by any logic. This shows a serious contradiction between the actions and decisions of the Nobel Peace Committee with the claimed goals for peace. The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the political action of the Nobel Peace Committee against Iran and expresses its deep regret for the deviation of this committee from its proclaimed objectives and the misuse of the concepts of human rights and peace as a tool for political purposes. The world has enough challenges and, instead of aggravating the critical conditions of the world resulting from irrational actions, indeed, honest intentions and fair approaches should be taken towards peace and stability. Oslo, 11 December 2023 Every year the Mint receives the job of making perhaps the world’s most prestigious medal, the Alfred Nobel Peace Prize. On his deathbed, he wrote a will in which he wanted to award a peace prize to the person or people who work to ensure or preserve peace. Reporter Lars Os asks, why do we have the Nobel Peace Prize?
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