DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike Monday over being blocked along with other inmates from getting medical care and to protest the country’s mandatory headscarves for women, a campaign advocating for the activist said. The decision by Mohammadi, 51, increases pressure on Iran’s theocracy […]
DUBAI/OSLO - Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday (Nov 6) in protest against what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported. The women's rights advocate won the award on Oct 6 in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders, who accused.
DUBAI (Reuters) -Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported. The women's rights advocate won the award on Oct. 6 in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders, who accused the Nobel committee of meddling and politicizing the issue of human rights. HRANA said authorities had not let the 51-year-old go to hospital for heart and lung treatment last week because she had refused to wear a mandatory head scarf for the visit.