The Norwegian Nobel Committee is calling on Iran to stop the physical abuse and life-threatening treatment of Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned since December.
The commission said it had received “credible reports” of “life-threatening ill-treatment” of Mohammadi, an activist who was arrested by plainclothes officers while peacefully attending the funeral of the late human rights lawyer and advocate Khosrow Alikordi.
Mohammadi was beaten with wooden sticks and clubs and dragged along the ground by her hair, tearing parts of her scalp and leaving open wounds, the commission said.
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Ali and Kiana Rahmani, children of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist, attend the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, where they accept the award on behalf of their mother at Oslo City Hall, Norway on December 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via REUTERS)
In addition, she was repeatedly kicked in the genitals and pelvic area, which left her unable to sit or move without severe pain and raised serious concerns about broken bones.
“The committee is shocked by these actions and reiterates that the detention of Ms Mohammadi is arbitrary and unjust,” committee chairman Jorgen Watne Frydnes said in a statement. “Her only ‘offence’ is the peaceful exercise of her fundamental rights – freedom of expression, association and assembly – in defense (sic) of women’s equality and human dignity.”
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Ali Rahmani, son of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist who received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks on behalf of his mother at the City Hall of Oslo, Norway, after receiving the award. (NTB/Fredrik Varfjell via REUTERS)
An Iranian prosecutor told reporters at the time of the arrest that Mohammadi made provocative comments during the memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad and encouraged attendees to “chant norm-breaking slogans” and “disturb the peace,” Reuters reported.
Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, has spent much of the past two decades in Iran’s infamous Evin Prison.
The committee calls on Tehran to release Mohammadi and guarantee her access to medical care.
The state tax building burned down during Iran’s protests, on a street in Tehran, Iran, January 19, 2026. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)
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“Mohammadi’s ordeal is yet another grim example of the brutal repression that followed the mass protests in Iran, where countless women and men have risked their lives to demand freedom, equality and basic human rights,” the report said.
