Iranian security forces “forcibly” arrested 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi this Friday (12/12/2025) during the ceremony in memory of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead in his office last week.
Mohammadi’s husband Taghi Rahmani, who lives in Paris, said the 53-year-old woman was arrested in the city of Mashhad along with prominent activist Sepideh Gholian.
The U.S.-based non-governmental organization Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) published images of Mohammadi attending the ceremony without the Islamic veil that the Iranian government forces women to wear in public spaces.
Other images broadcast by television channels outside Iran showed the women’s rights defender getting into a vehicle and urging people to chant slogans.
Tireless fight for human rights and oppression by the Iranian government
Mohammadi has been fighting for human rights in Iran for decades and has been in and out of prison several times for his tireless activism against the Islamic Republic regime.
In 2023, he received the Nobel Peace Prize while serving a 13-year, nine-month prison sentence for collusion against state security and propaganda against the Iranian government. In December 2024, she was released for three weeks for health reasons, but has since avoided prison.
Alikordi was a lawyer who had defended clients in sensitive cases, including those jailed in the crackdown on nationwide protests in 2022. He was found dead in his office earlier this month and authorities said he had suffered a heart attack. However, his death coincided with increasing repression in the country, raising doubts.
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