Iran’s 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been arrested, together with a number of different human rights activists throughout a memorial ceremony within the northeastern metropolis of Mashhad.
According to the Narges Mohammadi Foundation, the arrest happened on December 11, throughout an occasion marking the seventh day after the demise of Khosrow Alikordi, a distinguished lawyer and human rights advocate.
A big crowd attended the ceremony, which drew quite a few well-known activists, former political prisoners, and households in search of justice for victims of state violence.
A put up on Mohammadi’s account on X acknowledged that she was “violently arrested by safety and regulation enforcement brokers.” Her husband, Taghi Rahmani, who lives in France, confirmed that “Narges Mohammadi, Sepideh Gholian, and several other others” had been detained on the gathering.
Clashes With Security Forces
Videos circulated on social media present a big turnout, with contributors chanting slogans essential of the Islamic Republic. In one extensively shared clip, Mohammadi and fellow activist Sepideh Gholian stand atop a automobile, main the gang in chants resembling “Long reside Iran!”
Other footage exhibits safety forces clashing with attendees, with officers attacking contributors as protesters chant slogans towards the authorities.
Mashhad officers later confirmed that a number of civil activists had been arrested. According to Hasan Hosseini, the town governor of Mashhad, the activists’ detention was short-term and ordered by the prosecutor’s workplace attributable to what he described as “norm-breaking slogans.” He claimed these detained had been positioned “underneath safety” and that the arrests had been carried out “for their very own security.”
Earlier studies indicated that a number of different distinguished figures, together with Nasrin Sotoudeh, Aliyeh Motallebzadeh, and Hasti Amiri, had been additionally current on the memorial.
Narges Mohammadi, 53, has spent a lot of the previous decade behind bars. She was serving a mixed sentence of 13 years and 9 months earlier than being launched on medical grounds in early December 2024. At the time of her new arrest, she was reportedly present process remedy.
Since her launch, Mohammadi had resumed her human rights work, assembly with civil activists throughout Iran and participating in worldwide discussions, together with digital conferences with international audiences.
