Iran – Nobel Peace Prize Woman Laureate Began Hunger Strike in Prison
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Date: November 10, 2023
Iran – Nobel Peace Prize Woman Laureate Began Hunger Strike in Prison
November 10, 2023 – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike Monday to protest both the Iranian government’s refusal to provide medical treatment to her and her fellow inmates and the mandatory headscarf laws. According to her family, a prosecutor blocked Mohammadi’s request to transfer from the Evin Prison to a heart and lung hospital for “urgent medical care.”
Recently, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for her years of activism.
The Free Narges Mohammadi Campaign released a statement elaborating that “Narges went on a hunger strike today…protesting two things: The Islamic Republic’s policy of delaying and neglecting medical care for sick inmates, resulting in the loss of the health and lives of individuals. The policy of ‘death’ or ‘mandatory hijab’ for Iranian women.”
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