Earlier in December, Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. As she is imprisoned in Iran, her family accepted the prize in her name. Since the announcement, the regime has put more pressure on her and her health is endangered, husband Taghi Rahmani told EUobserver.
He speaks in farsi, his voice revealing a sense of urgency. Taghi Rahmani is the husband of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi. He is very concerned about her health. With the help of an interpreter, the EUobserver speaks to him in Paris where he lives with his children.
“Since she (Narges Mohammadi) received this price, the regime has been putting much more pressure on her. Narges has heart and lung problems, for example, but is denied treatment at the hospital since she refuses to put on a veil,” Taghi Rahmani said.
He also explains that she has been on hunger strike for several weeks to protest some of the regime’s latest executions.
“She won’t give in.”
51-year-old Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran, as well as for her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. In their motivation, the Nobel Committee emphasised her long fight for freedom in the context of the protests under the slogan “Woman — Life — Freedom” that has been going on since the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jina Amini died in the custody of the Iranian morality police, just over a year ago.
Narges Mohammadi is a trained physicist but has worked as a journalist, writer and above all as an activist her whole adult life. For the past twenty years, she has been imprisoned for long stretches of time.
