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Narges Mohammadi

Narges Mohammadi

Human rights activist, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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Notable Quotes

"I will never stop fighting for human rights. The more they imprison me, the louder my voice becomes." — Statement smuggled from Evin Prison, 2023

"This prize belongs to the brave women of Iran, the women who are still fighting under the banner of 'Woman, Life, Freedom.'" — Nobel acceptance speech read by her children, December 2023

Stories

Iran extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's prison sentence

Force in Play

Detained at intelligence ministry facility in Mashhad; sentenced to 7.5 additional years

Narges Mohammadi has spent more time in Iranian prisons than with her own children. On February 8, 2026, the 53-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate received yet another sentence: six years for 'gathering and collusion,' plus 18 months for 'propaganda,' plus two years of internal exile to a remote eastern province. The verdict came while she was on her sixth day of a hunger strike, detained in an intelligence ministry facility in Mashhad after being beaten during her arrest at a memorial service two months earlier.

Updated Feb 9