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Iran’s Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to begin new hunger strike: Family

First arrested 22 years ago, Mohammadi has spent much of the past two decades in and out of jail over her campaigning for human rights in Iran [File: Courtesy of Mohammadi's family/Reuters]

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, currently jailed in Iran for her activism for women’s rights, will begin a new hunger strike in prison as her prize is awarded in Norway, says her family.

At a news conference on Saturday in Oslo, Mohammadi’s husband Taghi Rahmani, their twin children, Ali and Kiana Rahmani, and her brother who are representing the veteran rights activist at the awards ceremony on Sunday, said the new strike is to show solidarity towards the Baha’i religious minority in Iran.

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