Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, incarcerated since 2021 in Tehran, was banned from attending the funeral of her father who died earlier this week, her family denounced Thursday.
Karim Mohammadi, who had not seen his daughter for 22 months and had not spoken to her by telephone for the past three months, died on Tuesday at the age of 90.
His funeral was held on Thursday in the town of Zanjan, northwest of Tehran.
“Unfortunately, Narges Mohammadi was denied the opportunity to attend the ceremony and say his last goodbyes to his father
,” lamented his family in a statement, which had previously affirmed that the Nobel Peace Prize winner should have the
“unequivocal right”
to attend this funeral.
Narges Mohammadi is one of the main faces of the
“Women, Life, Freedom”
uprising , which broke out in September 2021 in Iran.
“The Iranian people have turned the page on this regime
,” she told the French daily Le Monde in an interview published Thursday.
“I think that at the next opportunity he will return to the street.”
Narges Mohammadi, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
"for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her struggle for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all"
, has been repeatedly convicted and imprisoned for 25 years for her commitment. against the compulsory veil for women and the death penalty.
Additional penalties during his incarceration
Incarcerated since November 2021, she has not seen her husband and her twins living in Paris for several years.
She was also deprived last year of the right to telephone from prison, even to her relatives in Iran.
A ban maintained as his father's last moments approached.
On the day of her death,
“she was not allowed to call to offer her condolences to her family
,” her relatives denounced.
The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran quoted Karim Mohammadi as saying before his death:
"The desire to hear my daughter's voice from the oppressor's prison is unbearable
. "
he had said.
Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to several additional terms while behind bars, including an additional year in prison for spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic while incarcerated.
According to his family, his sentences now amount to 12 years and three months of imprisonment, 154 lashes, two years of exile and various social and political restrictions.