Narges Mohammedi, a human rights activist, has been behind bars in Tehran since 2021. She will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday in absentia, and will be represented by her husband and two kids in Oslo.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi will go on a new hunger strike from her prison cell in Iran as the prize is awarded in Oslo on Sunday in her absence, her family said Saturday.Mohammadi, who has campaigned against the compulsory wearing of the hijab and the death penalty in Iran, will go on hunger strike "in solidarity" with the Baha'i religious minority, her brother and husband told a press conference in the Norwegian capital on the eve of the Nobel award ceremony.
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