Karim Mohammadi, who hadn’t seen his daughter in 22 months and hadn’t spoken to her on the phone in three months, died on Tuesday aged 90.
Iranian authorities have banned the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nargis Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned since 2021 in Tehran, to attend the funeral of her father, who died earlier this week, her family said today.
Karim Mohammadi, who hadn’t seen his daughter in 22 months and hadn’t spoken to her on the phone in the last three months, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 90. His funeral was held today in the city of Zanzan, northwest of Tehran.
“Unfortunately, Nargis Mohammadi was denied the opportunity to attend the ceremony and say goodbye to her father,” her family said in a press release, having previously said the Nobel Peace Prize winner should have “the unquestionable right” to attend his funeral.
Nargis Mohammadi is one of the central figures of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” rebellion, which broke out in September 2021 in Iran.
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“The Iranian people have turned the page on this regime,” he told French newspaper Le Monde in an interview published today. “I think at the next opportunity he will be back on the road.”
Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”, has been convicted and imprisoned repeatedly for 25 years for the struggle against the imposition of the headscarf on women and the death penalty.
Imprisoned since November 2021, she has not seen her husband and twin childrens who have been settled in Paris for years. For the past year she has been denied the right to call from her prison, even to her relatives in Iran.
A ban that did not come even as the last moments of her father’s life approached. On the day of his death, “she was not allowed to call her family to offer condolences,” her family claimed.
The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran quoted Karim Mohammadi as saying before his death: “The desire to hear my daughter’s voice from the dictator’s prison is unbearable,” he had said.
Source :Skai
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