OSLO — The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday that it had called on Iran to immediately free activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison.

Mohammadi, 53, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women’s rights, was last week sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, a group supporting her said on Sunday.

She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, while in prison for her campaign to advance women’s rights and abolish the death penalty in the Islamic Republic.

Citing “reliable and well‑documented sources inside Iran,” the committee said Mohammadi was violently apprehended in December while attending the funeral of a human-rights........

© The Times of Israel