Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Prize 2023- Know more about her.
Nobel Prize 2023 – Norwegian committee has decided to awarded Iranian women activists, Narges Mohammadi Nobel Peace Prize 2023. She serving 12-year jail sentence, Her struggle came with tremendous personal lose. The Iranian Government has arrested her 13 times convicted her five times and sentence her at total of 31 years and 154 lashes.
Mohammadi’s win comes at a time in Iran when the country has been on the edge. Iran recently marked the one-year death anniversary of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, which had sparked widespread protests.
Who is Masha Amini ?
Mahsa Amini was a 22 year women who died in the police custody just because she was not wearing the Hijab properly, small portion of the hair came out of the hijab. After that many women and their family came out on the street of Iran to protest against the government but on 21st September the Iran government put a banned on social media making it difficult for protesters To communicate with the rest of the world and try to suppressed the protest.
Who is Narges Mohammadi ?
Narges mohammadi is a 51 year old Deputy Director of Defender of Human Rights center and is currently in Tehran prison. she was released in 2020 but send back to prison in 2021 for giving report of abuse of detained women.
Narges Mohammadi Early life
Narges Mohammadi was born in 21st April 1972. She attended Qazvin International University, Later she became a professional engineer during her career. she had written about women’s right in student newspapers and watch arrested for it. She is also a professional mountain climber but why should later banned from the mountain climbing group due to her political activities.
She also worked as a journalist in 2003 and joined the Defender of Human Rights Center DHRC headed by Shirin Ebadi. She married fellow journalist Taghi Rahmani. The husband was arrested and put in jail for 14 years later you moved to France in 2012 muhammadin They both have two children together.