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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Narges Mohammadi: a defiant voice for women’s rights in Iran

Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi in 2007. It is estimated she has been convicted five times, arrested 13 times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images

Narges Mohammadi, the most articulate and unflinching voice of the Iranian human rights movement, and now Nobel peace prize winner, has spent so long in prison serving overlapping sentences and defiantly speaking out from behind bars that her family are not sure they will ever speak to her again, let alone meet.

Her husband and two twins exiled in France have been banned from direct communication for 18 months. She herself believes she will not be released, and still faces a further 154 lashings.

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