Narges Mohammadi

Narges Mohammadi (born 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded the 2023 prize while in prison 'for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all' ^{1 2}. Between 1998 and October 2023 she was arrested thirteen times and sentenced to a total of thirty-one years in prison and 154 lashes ¹.

Mohammadi was born on 21 April 1972 in Zanjan to an Iranian Azerbaijani family and took a degree in applied physics at Qazvin International University, where she co-founded a student group that explored neo-Shariatism and advocated a secular democracy ^{1 2}. She began journalism in 1996, writing on women's and human rights, and joined the Defenders of Human Rights Center founded by Shirin Ebadi, becoming its deputy and head of its women's rights committee ¹.

Mohammadi founded the Women's Citizenship Center and the Legam campaign for step-by-step abolition of the death penalty, and documented the abuse of women prisoners in her 2022 book White Torture ^{1 2}. Repeatedly imprisoned in Evin Prison, she reported from inside on the condition of women detainees during the Mahsa Amini protests and has campaigned against solitary confinement and the mandatory hijab ¹. Her Nobel acceptance speech was read in Oslo by her twin children, Ali and Kiana Rahmani ¹. Her own religious positions have shifted and are contested in the sources, and no affiliation is settled for her in this record ^{1 2 3}.

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