“A symbol for many Iranians.”
Ali Rahman and Kiana Rahmani, the children of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, testified about the conditions of imprisonment of their mother, incarcerated in Tehran since 2021, on France Inter this Thursday.
Narges Mohammadi, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight 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.
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.
“My mother is now very isolated, her jailers, her executioners are trying to silence her,” says Ali Rahman, her son.
“This is a strategy that the Islamic government imposes on its political prisoners.
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“No more visits, no more calls, no more”
“There are no more visits, no more calls, no more nothing,” regrets his daughter Kiana Rahmani.
“All contacts have been cut.
Other political prisoners are going through the same ordeal.
» “Isolation causes the Iranian political prisoner to break down, to make confessions that he did not commit,” adds his brother, Ali Rahmani.
“My mother is a symbol for many Iranians,” Ali Rahmani also said.
Last week, the Nobel Prize winner's family denounced the ban on Narges Mohammadi from attending the funeral of his father, Karim Mohammadi.
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.
Narges Mohammadi is one of the main faces of the “Woman, 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.
“I think that at the next opportunity he will return to the street.
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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 received several additional sentences 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.