The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Thursday criticised an Iranian court docket’s choice to slap an extra one-year jail time period on imprisoned 2023 Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, referred to as it “a flagrant violation of human rights and a travesty of justice”.
Mohammadi, 52, has been jailed since November 2021 over a number of previous convictions referring to her campaigns in opposition to the compulsory hijab for ladies and capital punishment in Iran.
Her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, mentioned on X on Tuesday: “Mohammadi was sentenced to at least one 12 months in jail for propaganda in opposition to the system.”
The Nobel Committee mentioned it “strongly condemns the cruel and unjust sentencing”.
Nili mentioned the sentence was in response to calls to boycott parliamentary elections, letters to Swedish and Norwegian lawmakers, and feedback made about journalist and scholar Dina Ghalibaf.
Rights teams mentioned Ghalibaf was taken into custody after accusing safety forces on social media of placing her in handcuffs and sexually assaulting her throughout a earlier arrest at a metro station.
Ghalibaf has since been launched.
The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan On-line web site mentioned on April 22 that Ghalibaf “had not been raped” and that she was being prosecuted for making a “false assertion”.
Mohammadi refused to attend a trial listening to in Tehran earlier this month, and in March shared an audio message from jail by which she decried a “full-scale battle in opposition to ladies” within the Islamic republic.
She was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in October “for her struggle in opposition to the oppression of girls in Iran and her struggle to advertise human rights and freedom for all”.
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