Iranian security forces “forcibly” arrested 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi during a ceremony to commemorate a late lawyer, her supporters said.
“The Narges Mohammadi Foundation announced that it has received credible information that Narges Mohammadi was forcibly arrested by security forces and police about an hour ago,” he wrote on his X account.
Mohammadi was arrested along with other activists at the ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead in his office last week, her foundation said. His French lawyer Chirine Ardakani confirmed the information.
Mohammadi’s husband, Paris-based Taghi Rahmani, also said in X that the Nobel laureate was arrested during the ceremony in the eastern city of Mashhad along with prominent activist Sepideh Gholian.
Alikordi, 45, was a lawyer who had defended clients in sensitive cases, including those arrested in the crackdown on nationwide protests in 2022.
The US-based NGO Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) published images of Mohammadi attending the ceremony without the mandatory veil that women in Iran must wear in public spaces.
HRANA said they chanted slogans such as “Long live Iran,” “We fight, we die, we do not accept humiliation,” and “Death to the dictator.”
Other images broadcast by Persian-language television channels outside Iran showed this women’s rights defender getting into a vehicle and urging people to chant slogans.
Mohammadi, 53, was detained for three years until she was temporarily released on medical grounds in December last year. Her legal team had warned that she could be rearrested at any time and would not be allowed to leave the country.
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