The Nobel Peace Prize 2023
Awarded on: 2023-10-06
"for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"
Narges Mohammadi
Born: 1972-04-21 in Zanjan, Iran
Gender: female
Field: Iranian human rights activist (born 1972)
Biography
Narges Mohammadi is an Iranian human rights activist. She is the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), headed by her fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Shirin Ebadi. Mohammadi has been a vocal proponent of mass feminist civil disobedience against the mandatory hijab in Iran and a vocal critic of hijab and chastity program of 2023. In May 2016, she was sentenced in Tehran to 16 years' imprisonment for "establishing and running the illegal splinter group Legam." She was released in 2020 but sent back to prison in 2021, where she has since given reports of the abuse and solitary confinement of detained women.