Nargis Mohammadi, a human rights activist imprisoned for her struggle against oppression of women in Iran, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The award to Mohammadi followed protests across Iran a year ago following the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Mehsa Amini.
The Nobel Committee of Norway announced the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of Nargis Mohammadi’s struggle against the oppression of women in Iran, her efforts to promote human rights and freedom for all people. Done on the struggle.
Amini was arrested for violating the strict dress code for women.
Mohammadi, a 51-year-old journalist and activist, has spent most of the past two decades in and out of jail for her campaign against the mandatory hijab for women and the death penalty.
She is the Vice President of the Defenders of Human Rights Center founded by Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
“He (Nargis Abadi) paid a great personal price for his courageous struggle,” said Barrett Rees-Andersen, head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. The government arrested him a total of 13 times, convicted him five times and sentenced him to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.’
Speaking to journalists on this occasion, Anderson also demanded the release of Mohammadi and said, “If the Iranian authorities make the right decision, they will release him.” So she may be present herself to receive the honor which we chiefly hope for.’
In a letter written from prison last month, Mohammadi told AFP that the recent protests had “accelerated the process of achieving democracy, freedom and equality in Iran.”
On September 16, on the occasion of Amini’s death anniversary, three other women incarcerated with her in Tehran’s Ovin prison burned their hijabs.
Iran ranks 143 out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum’s gender equality ranking.
Last year, Iranian authorities cracked down on the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ movement.
According to Iran Human Rights, security forces killed a total of 551 protesters, including 68 children and 49 women, and arrested thousands.
Since then, the movement has continued in various forms.
Unthinkable a year ago, women now go out in public without the hijab, despite the dangers, especially in Tehran and other major cities.
The government of Iran has called these protests a foreign conspiracy on several occasions.
From 1901 to 2022, 140 people have been awarded the Peace Prize 103 times. It is one of the six prizes established by the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in 1895.
Other award categories include literature, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and economic sciences, which were announced earlier this week.
Last year’s peace prize was awarded to Belarussian human rights lawyer Alice Byaltsky, as well as two human rights organizations, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.
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The winner is ultimately chosen by a five-member Nobel Committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. The committee based its decision on nominations by January 31 of current and former committee members, national parliaments, governments, past peace laureates, professors in certain fields, directors of peace and international affairs research centers and members of international courts. keeps
This year’s nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Chinese human rights activist Ilham Tohti.
Volodymyr Zelensky
According to the American Journal Times, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was named the top. He was also named Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ in 2022.
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been a key figure on the global stage, rallying international allies and aid in the fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022.
According to the magazine, although bookmakers favor Volodymyr Mir-Zelinsky, experts remain skeptical about his chances.
The Times list was based on betting site Nicerodds.co.uk as well as an annual shortlist by Henrik Ardal, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
But Henrik Ardal himself said: ‘Despite the fact that Zelenskiy and the Ukraine are fighting a just war and we have every sympathy for their cause, I would say that it is extremely difficult for the Nobel Committee to award such a person. Hoga, who is engaged in interstate warfare.’
Alexey Navalny
Anti-Putin politician Alexei Navalny was ranked second in the list.
Alexei Navalny, 47, is a Russian opposition politician who was allegedly poisoned by President Vladimir Putin’s child and is now in prison.
Inspiration
Ilham Tohti’s name was on the third place in this list. Before his imprisonment, Ilham Tohti was a professor of economics at Manzhou University in Beijing, where he specialized in issues related to China’s minority Uyghur community.
He founded the Chinese-language website Uighur Online, dedicated to documenting the persecution and discrimination faced by the Muslim minority group. Two years later, the authorities shut down the website.
Ilham Tohti, has been missing since the 2009 riots between Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang. He was released shortly after, but the most prominent activist in academia and the Uyghur community was sentenced to life in prison in January 2014 for inciting separatism.
List of 10 past winners
Here is a list of the 10 past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize before the 2023 winner is announced.
2022: Alice Byaltskyi (Belarus), Memorial (Russia) and Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine)
2021: Maria Ressa (Philippines/USA) and Dmitry Muratov (Russia)
2020: United Nations World Food Program (WFP)
2019: Abi Ahmed Ali (Ethiopia)
2018: Denis Mukwege (DR Congo) and Nadia Murad (Iraq)
2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
2016: Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia)
2015: National Dialogue Quartet (Tunisia)
2014: Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan)
2013: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
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2024-05-04 21:52:48
