- Laureate 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, internal exile and a two-year travel ban.
Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been repeatedly jailed during her three-decade campaign for women’s rights, was sentenced to a new prison term of seven and a half years, a group supporting her said on Sunday.
Mohammadi, 53, was on a week-long hunger strike that ended Sunday, the Narges Foundation said in a statement. He said Mohammadi told his lawyer, Mostafa Nili, in a phone call Sunday from prison that he had received his sentence on Saturday.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tehran renewed a crackdown on dissent during nearly three weeks of anti-government protests that began in late December.
Mohammadi was arrested on December 12 after reporting the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi. Prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters that she made provocative comments at the Alikordi memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad and encouraged those present to “chant slogans that violated the rules” and “disturb the peace.”
Mohammadi is being held in a detention center in Mashhad.
“After weeks of absolute isolation and complete communication shutdown, he was finally able to describe his situation in a brief phone call with his attorney,” the foundation said.
His sentence includes six years in prison per meeting.
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 city of Khusf and a two-year travel ban.
Mohammadi won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize while in prison for her campaign to promote women’s rights and abolish the death penalty in Iran.
