- The winner ended a week-long hunger strike on Sunday to protest his detention.
- She was arrested in December for reporting the death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi.
- His sentence includes prison time, internal exile and a two-year travel ban.
Nobel Peace Prize-winning Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who was repeatedly imprisoned during her three-decade campaign for women’s rights, has been sentenced to another 7 1/2 years in prison, a group supporting her said Sunday.
Mohammadi, 53, led a week-long hunger strike that ended on Sunday, the Narges Foundation said in a statement. Mohammadi told her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, in a phone call from prison on Sunday that she received her sentence on Saturday.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tehran has renewed its crackdown on dissent during nearly three weeks of anti-government protests that began in late December.
Mohammadi was arrested on December 12 after denouncing the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi. Prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters that she made provocative remarks during Alikordi’s memorial ceremony in Mashhad, in the northeast of the country, and encouraged those present to “chant slogans contrary to norms” and “disturb the peace.”
Mohammadi is being held in a detention center in Mashhad.
“After weeks of absolute isolation and a complete breakdown in communication, she was finally able to describe her situation in a brief telephone call with her lawyer,” the foundation said.
His sentence includes six years’ imprisonment for assembly
and collusion against national security and a year and a half for propaganda against the government. She was also punished with two years of internal exile in the town of Khusf and a two-year travel ban.
Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison for her campaign for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran.
