Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi goes on a hunger strike while imprisoned in Iran
- Mohammadi is serving multiple sentences amounting to about 12 years in prison on charges including spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic
- The women’s rights advocate said the hunger strike was in protest against what she said was the jail’s failure to give her access to medical care
Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against what she said was the jail’s failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported.
The women’s rights advocate won the award on October 6 in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders, who accused the Nobel committee of meddling and politicising the issue of human rights.
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HRANA said authorities had not let the 51-year-old go to hospital for heart and lung treatment last week because she had refused to wear a mandatory headscarf for the visit. The news agency did not name its sources.
Iran’s judiciary did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
“Mohammadi has gone on a hunger strike to protest against the authorities’ failure to address her demands, including their refusal to transfer her to a specialist hospital,” HRANA reported.
“This deprivation continues under the order of the prison authorities,” HRANA added.
