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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam and agencies

Iran stops Mahsa Amini’s family from travelling to receive human rights prize

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration
A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in September 2022 in Istanbul. Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images

Iran has banned Mahsa Amini’s family from travelling to France to receive the EU’s top human rights prize on her behalf, as the family of the imprisoned Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi said she had begun a new hunger strike before Sunday’s award ceremony in Oslo.

In Mohammadi’s absence, her 17-year-old twin children, Ali and Kiana, instead collected the award on her behalf, reading out a speech their mother smuggled out of her cell.

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