Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned since 2021, refused to appear at her retrial, her family said on Tuesday.
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The revolutionary court before which she was due to appear was the same one that ordered the execution of several young Iranians, said the Nobel laureate, who described that chamber as a “slaughterhouse.”
“I will not enter this slaughterhouse,” Ms. Mohammadi said on her Instagram account, which is managed by her family.
“I refuse to give even the slightest credibility or authority to judges who answer to the secret services and courts who organize sham trials,” she added.
The trial against her, the first since her international recognition, is related to her activities in prison, where, according to her relatives, she continues her fight against the requirement to veil and the death penalty.
They fear she risks being deported from Tehran and possibly being sentenced to prison again.
Narges Mohammadi, winner of 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,” was repeatedly convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for her work against the forced veil for women and the death penalty.
She has been arrested 13 times, sentenced five times to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes, and has been imprisoned again since 2021. She is one of the main figures of the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising in Iran.
Ms. Mohammadi, who has not seen her Paris-based husband or children for several years, has not been able to make phone calls “since November 29,” her family says.
Until then, she had had the opportunity to speak to relatives living in Iran, ensuring that her messages could quickly reach the outside world through her social media accounts.
His family accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on his behalf in Oslo on December 10th.