Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist successfully transported to hospital without being forced to cover her head
The Iranian activist and journalist imprisoned in Tehran, Nargis Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, achieved a great victory today: after a four-day hunger strike, she managed to be transferred to the hospital without being forced to cover her head.
“I was transferred from prison to hospital today without wearing the obligatory headscarf,” Nargis Mohammadi wrote to her family.
Her message was posted in English on Instagram and shared by her relatives to AFP.
“After being transferred to the hospital without being forced to cover and after returning to the prison, I ended the hunger strike,” he wrote.
“The government was afraid of being seen without a headscarf. Until the hijab is abolished, I will continue to walk uncovered and you will tremble when you see women without headscarves,” he also said.
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Mahamadi went on hunger strike on 6 November, refusing to wear a headscarf for her transport to the hospital. He suffers from heart problems and the need for hospitalization was urgent.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was escorted to the hospital on November 8, steadfastly refusing to comply with the state’s mandatory hijab law.
Her husband, in an interview with HRANA, disclosed that this was carried out under stringent security measures for urgent… pic.twitter.com/GeHBcwITKR
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Friends and relatives waiting for her at the hospital entrance were briefly detained, questioned and their cameras confiscated.
The Nobel Peace Prize and the headscarf movement of Mahsa Amini
The committee awarded the 51-year-old journalist and activist with the Nobel Peace Prize for “her struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all.”
Nargis Mohammadi has been arrested 13 times and sentenced 5 times for a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. He was re-imprisoned in 2021 and is one of the key figures of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising.
Iranian women threw away their headscarves, cut their hair and demonstrated in the streets in the uprising, which was sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police for violating the dress code imposed on Iranian women.
In a message from prison to express her gratitude for the Nobel Peace Prize and read by her daughter, Nargis Mohammadi called the compulsory hijab “a key source of control and oppression in society aimed at maintaining and perpetuating an authoritarian religious government”.
Source :Skai
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