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Iran Re-Arrests Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi at Mourning Ceremony in Mashhad

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner was on medical leave under a 13-year, 9-month sentence.

Overview

  • Rights groups report that Mohammadi was detained on December 12 while attending the seventh-day memorial for human-rights lawyer Khosrow Alikordi.
  • Her foundation and family say security forces beat her and transferred her to a facility run by the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit, a claim not independently verified in the reports.
  • Several activists and lawyers were also detained at the ceremony, including Sepideh Gholian, Hasti Amiri, Pouran Nazemi and Alieh Motalebzadeh, according to the foundation.
  • Mohammadi has been serving a combined sentence for national-security charges and had been on medical leave from Tehran’s Evin prison since December 2024.
  • She has previously stated she would not return to custody voluntarily and has reported receiving direct and indirect death threats from intelligence agents.