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Iran’s Mohammadi slams ‘tyrannical’ regime in Nobel Prize speech from jail

Ali and Kiana Rahmani, children of Narges Mohammadi, hold the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 award, accepting it on behalf of their mother at Oslo City Hall, Norway [NTB/Fredrik Varfjell via Reuters]

Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has denounced a “tyrannical and anti-women religious” government in Iran in an acceptance speech read by her children in the Norwegian capital.

Mohammadi, 51, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in October for her decades of activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. She has been held since 2021 in Tehran’s Evin prison.

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