Nobel Peace Prize 2023: Narges Mohammadi is the nineteenth girl to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian girl after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the award in 2003.
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 on Friday for fighting the oppression of women in Iran.
“This prize is first and foremost a recognition of the very important work of a whole movement in Iran with its undisputed leader, Nargis Mohammadi,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee who announced the prize in Oslo.
“The impact of the prize is not for the Nobel committee to decide upon. We hope that it is an encouragement to continue the work in whichever form this movement finds to be fitting.” Authorities arrested Mohammadi in November after she attended a memorial for a sufferer of violent 2019 protests. Reiss-Andersen mentioned Mohammadi has been imprisoned 13 occasions and convicted 5 occasions. In whole, she has been sentenced to 31 years in jail.
She is the nineteenth girl to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian girl after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the award in 2003.
Mohammadi was behind bars for the latest nationwide protests over the demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after she was detained by the nation’s morality police. That sparked one of the most-intense challenges ever to Iran’s theocracy since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. More than 500 individuals had been killed in a heavy safety crackdown whereas over 22,000 others had been arrested.
However, Mohammadi contributed an opinion piece for The New York Times from behind bars.
“What the government may not understand is that the more of us they lock up, the stronger we become,” she wrote.
There was no fast response from Iranian state tv and different state-controlled media. Some semiofficial information companies acknowledged Mohammadi’s win in on-line messages, citing overseas press reviews.
Before being jailed, Mohammadi was vp of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Centre in Iran. She has been near Ebadi, who based the centre.
In 2018, Mohammadi, an engineer, was awarded the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize.
The Nobel Prizes carry a money award of 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million). Winners additionally obtain an 18-carat gold medal and diploma on the award ceremonies in December.
The winner of the celebrated Nobel Peace Prize is chosen by a panel of consultants in Norway from a listing of simply over 350 nominations.
Last yr’s prize was won by human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, in what was seen as a powerful rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart and ally.
Other earlier winners embody Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Aung San Suu Kyi and the United Nations.
Unlike the opposite Nobel prizes which are chosen and introduced in Stockholm, founder Alfred Nobel decreed that the Peace Prize be determined and awarded in Oslo by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The impartial panel is appointed by the Norwegian parliament.
The Peace Prize is the fifth of this yr’s prizes to be introduced. A day earlier, the Nobel committee awarded Norwegian author Jon Fosse the prize for literature. On Wednesday, the chemistry prize went to US scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov.
The physics prize went Tuesday to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz. Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in drugs on Monday.
Nobel’s season ends subsequent week with the announcement of the winner of the Economics Prize, formally referred to as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
