Iran: Court sentences Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammadi to one year in prison
An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to one year in prison for "propaganda against the state." Mohammadi's lawyer, Mostafa Nili, announced this on the online service X. The judgment was based on Mohammadi's calls for a boycott of parliamentary elections, letters to Swedish and Norwegian parliamentarians, and "comments about Dina Ghalibaf."
According to human rights groups, the journalist and student Dina Ghalibaf was arrested after she accused security forces of putting handcuffs on her and sexually assaulting her at a subway station during a previous arrest. Ghalibaf was later released.
The Iranian judiciary announced on their Misan-Online website on April 22 that Ghalibaf was "not raped" and was charged with "giving false testimony."
Mohammadi, the human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her activism, sent an audiotape from prison in March denouncing a "grand war against women" in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In early June, she refused to attend the hearing for her trial on charges of "propaganda against the state" at the Revolutionary Court in Teheran.
In the past month, Mohammadi was urged by her family to allow the public to attend her trial so that "witnesses and survivors could testify to the sexual assaults by the Islamic Regime against women." Mohammadi also urged affected women to publicly share their experiences of arrests and sexual assaults by government officials.
- Despite Mohammadi's refusal to attend the hearing for her trial at the Revolutionary Court in Teheran, the court continued with her sentencing for "propaganda against the state" to one year in prison, taking into account her advocacy for a boycott of parliamentary elections, correspondence with Swedish and Norwegian parliamentarians, and comments about Dina Ghalibaf.
- The family of Mohammadi, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, has appealed for public attendance at her trial, as they believe the presence of witnesses and survivors can strengthen claims of sexual assaults against women by the Islamic Regime.
- Mohammadi, currently serving her sentence in detention, has denounced the "grand war against women" in the Islamic Republic of Iran, urging affected women to share their experiences of arrests and sexual assaults by government officials.
- Over the past year, Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist, has been vocal about the compulsory headscarf, Parliamentary elections boycotts, and government officials' alleged sexual assaults, which landed her in a court of law facing a one-year prison sentence.
