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An image of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi projected on a hotel in Norway before the Nobel Banquet in 2023. Javad Parsa/Pool/EPA

June 17, 2026

The Iran peace deal must demand the release of Narges Mohammadi and other prisoners of conscience

Shadi Rouhshahbaz, The University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle

Tens of thousands of people were arrested this year alone in Iran, and thousands are executed every year.

Hunger strike: 2023 Nobel peace laureate, Narges Mohammadi. EPA-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh

November 9, 2023

Narges Mohammadi: 2023 Nobel peace laureate on hunger strike after being denied medical treatment over hijab ban

Hind Elhinnawy, Nottingham Trent University

Narges Mohammadi is being denied treatment for serious heart and lung issues.

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. Photo taken in 2021. Reihane Taravati / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP

October 8, 2023

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades

Pardis Mahdavi, University of La Verne

Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains locked up in Evin, Iran’s most notorious prison for political detainees.

‘Democracy is in decline’ says Nobel committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen, as she gives the award to Iranian women’s rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi. Terje Pedersen/NTB

October 7, 2023

Nobel peace prize 2023: award for Iranian women’s rights protester highlights fight against declining democracy around the world

Leïla Choukroune, University of Portsmouth

The Nobel peace prize committee noted that awards in recent years highlight pressure on democracy which they say is in decline around the world.

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