Nobel Peace Prize 2023 Awarded to Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi

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Sources: la Repubblica, Corriere della Sera.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist, for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all. The award comes amidst 305 nominations, one-third of which were organizations, while the other two hundred were individual names.

Narges Mohammadi, fifty-one years old, is one of Iran’s most important human rights activists. She has dedicated her career to fighting government repression, with a particular focus on women’s rights. Currently, she is serving a ten-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison for \