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12-12-2025, 06:03 PM
Iranian authorities arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on Friday, her foundation said, citing her brother.
The Paris-based foundation said Mohammadi was “violently detained” by security and police forces during a memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer recently found dead in his office. It cited “verified reports” and her brother, Mehdi. She was arrested in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city.
One of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023.
She has spent most of the past two decades as an inmate of Tehran’s Evin prison [b]—[/b] notorious for detaining critics of the regime.In December 2024, Iranian authorities suspended her prison term for three weeks to allow her to recover from a surgery she had in November to remove part of a bone in her lower right leg, where doctors had discovered a lesion suspected of being cancerous.
Mohammadi was expected to return to prison soon afterward. She has been serving multiple sentences totaling 31 years on charges of acting against national security and spreading propaganda.
Over the past year, she has continued her activism and has been increasingly vocal about the human rights situation in Iran, addressing various human rights events around the world.
Last week, Mohammadi wrote an article for Time magazine in which she said the people of Iran cannot truly experience peace since the state controls every aspect of their personal and private lives.
The Paris-based foundation said Mohammadi was “violently detained” by security and police forces during a memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer recently found dead in his office. It cited “verified reports” and her brother, Mehdi. She was arrested in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city.
One of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023.
She has spent most of the past two decades as an inmate of Tehran’s Evin prison [b]—[/b] notorious for detaining critics of the regime.In December 2024, Iranian authorities suspended her prison term for three weeks to allow her to recover from a surgery she had in November to remove part of a bone in her lower right leg, where doctors had discovered a lesion suspected of being cancerous.
Mohammadi was expected to return to prison soon afterward. She has been serving multiple sentences totaling 31 years on charges of acting against national security and spreading propaganda.
Over the past year, she has continued her activism and has been increasingly vocal about the human rights situation in Iran, addressing various human rights events around the world.
Last week, Mohammadi wrote an article for Time magazine in which she said the people of Iran cannot truly experience peace since the state controls every aspect of their personal and private lives.
