Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize, 2023

Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her long fight for human rights and women's rights in Iran. She has led campaigns against capital punishment, supported the struggle of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement to abolish the mandatory use of the hijab; she has been jailed for her political activism in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, where she has denounced solitary confinement as a common practice to gag political prisoners, and she has documented abuse against women in custody. She is currently serving a 10-year-long sentence, including 154 lashes, according to the New York Times.

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