Updated 21 April 2024
Happy 52nd Birthday, Narges!
Take Action: Post birthday greetings for Narges on social media.
Here is an example X (formerly Twitter) post.
6 October 2023: Narges receives NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1203858300/nobel-peace-prize-winner
https://apnews.com/article/nobel-peace-prize-oslo-776ca1bcf0fde827ad90af8a069907eb
https://https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/nobel-peace-prize-winner-narges-mohammadi-must-be-released-immediately-and-unconditionally/
23 September 2023
NY Times Guest Essay by Narges:
The More They Lock Us Up, the Stronger We Become
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/opinion/narges-mohammadi-iran-women.html
4 June 2023
PEN America honored Narges Mohammadi with its 2023 Freedom To Write award.
https://pen.org/pen_topic/narges-mohammadi/
Read this inspiring NY Times article about Narges and her family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/world/middleeast/narges-mohammadi-iran-political-prisoner.html/
21 April 2023.
Narges Mohammadi marked her 51st birthday on April 21.
Although confined in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, she somehow she manages to continue her activism in defense of women's rights. She vowed in an open letter to testify about sexual assaults on women prisoners.
https://iranhumanrights.org/2023/03/i-will-testify-about-sexual-assault-against-iranian-protesters-says-political-prisoner-in-iran/
Iran Prisoner of Conscience Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi is a distinguished and passionate defender of human rights. She was vice-president
of the Center for Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) which reported on violations of
human rights in Iran provided pro-bono legal representation to political prisoners and support to
their families before it was forcibly closed by the Iranian authorities in December 2008. The
Center was co-founded with prominent human rights attorneys, including Iran’s Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. Narges Mohammadi also founded the campaign Step by Step to Stop
Death Penalty, a group advocating for abolition of the death penalty in Iran.
In November 2021 she was arrested while attending a memorial service for people killed by
Iranian security forces during nationwide protests in November 2019.
In January 2022, following
a grossly unfair trial that lasted just five minutes, a Revolutionary court convicted her on charges
including “gathering and colluding to commit crimes against national security” and “disrupting
public order” and sentenced her to eight years and two months in prison, 74 lashes and bans on
her activities. This sentence is in addition to a sentence imposed in May 2021--of 30 months in
prison, 80 lashes, and a fine-- for “spreading propaganda against the system.” She was notified
that she would be required to serve a sentence imposed on her in May 2021 of 30 months in
prison and 80 lashes on charges of “spreading propaganda against the system.” On 19 January
2022 she was transferred to Qarchak Prison which is notorious for its poor conditions.
Narges Mohammadi had been imprisoned previously, including a stretch from May 2015 to
October 2020; “evidence” that had been used to convict her included her media interviews about
human rights; her participation in gatherings outside prisons before executions to support the
families of death row prisoners; her connections with other human rights defenders including
Shirin Ebadi; and her meeting with Catherine Ashton, the former European Union’s High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. For many years, Narges Mohammadi has
not been able to see her fifteen-year-old twins or her husband Taghi Rahmani who live in Paris.
She suffers from a number of serious health problems, including a condition that can cause
seizures, for which she requires specialized treatment that she cannot receive in prison. In
February 2022 she required hospitalization and surgery for a blockage in an artery.
[https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Nowruz-action-2022.pdf]
Narges Mohammadi is a
2018 recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize
awarded by the
American Physical Society. The prize recognizes
outstanding leadership and/or achievements of
scientists in upholding human rights.
Citation:
"for her leadership in campaigning for peace, justice,
and the abolition of the death penalty and for her
unwavering efforts to promote the human rights and
freedoms of the Iranian people, despite persecution
that has forced her to suspend her scientific pursuits
and endure lengthy incarceration."
Take Action for Narges Mohammadi
Group 22's work for Narges Mohammadi
In 2016, Group 22 held a rally on April 21, Narges Mohammadi's birthday, at the Federal Building in Westwood. Photos are posted in our Facebook album.
We joined other groups around the world who held actions using the tag #UnitedForNarges.
For 2017 Nowruz, Alexi created a
collage of European and US groups working to free Narges.
In 2019 Jean-Christophe of Amnesty Belgium compiled a
review of recent work
done for Narges by groups in Norway, Sweden, the USA, Denmark, Switzerland, and of course Belgium.
More About Narges Mohammadi
BBC Persian visits Narges Mohammadi's family in Paris.
https://t.co/QEwoGUZaoO
Narges Mohammedi's Letter [4 August 2015] "Tearing My Heart to Pieces"
Wikipedia
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
More About Human Rights in Iran
Amnesty International (September 2017)
Caught in a Web of Repression: Iran's Human Rights Defenders Under Attack
Online Campaign
Download the Report
HEALTH TAKEN HOSTAGE: Cruel Denial of Medical Care in Iran Prisons
Amnesty International (September 2020)
Trampling humanity: Mass arrests, disappearances and torture since Iran’s 2019 November protests.
From Campaign for Human Rights in Iran,
INSIDE THE WOMENS'S WARD: Mistreatment of Women Political Prisoners at Iran's Evin Prison.
Amnesty International Annual Report (Iran)
AIUSA
Iran Country Page
US State Dept Report, Iran
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