DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s safety providers have threatened the lifetime of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi after her native nation’s battle with Israel, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and activists stated Friday.
Mohammadi stated that the threats have come by way of each her lawyer and different oblique channels as she’s stored up public statements in regards to the Islamic Republic’s theocracy, ladies’s rights and others points, the committee stated.
“The clear message, in her personal phrases, is that ‘I’ve been immediately and not directly threatened with ‘bodily elimination’ by brokers of the regime,’” the committee stated in its announcement.
The Free Narges Coalition Steering Committee, which advocates for the 53-year-old laureate, stated that the threats got here from Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. Iran’s authorities hasn’t responded to Mohammadi’s latest remarks, and Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
The warnings about Mohammadi got here as Iran has made arrests and carried out executions within the wake of the 12-day battle with Israel, elevating issues of an extra doable crackdown concentrating on human rights activists and others.
Mohammadi has been giving a collection of interviews with media overseas through the battle, additional elevating her profile, whereas Israel at one level started placing targets synonymous with Iran’s ruling theocracy. She herself fled Tehran for a time through the Israeli airstrikes and stated: “Warfare doesn’t have the capability for the elemental transformation that the Iranian individuals search.”
“In Iran, there’s a misogynistic and spiritual authorities helmed by (Supreme Chief Ayatollah) Ali Khamenei who has taken us to hell whereas promising paradise,” Mohammadi advised the Wall Avenue Journal just lately. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is taking us to hell whereas promising freedom and democracy.”
Mohammadi has been out on a medical furlough from jail, the place she is serving 13 years and 9 months on expenses of collusion in opposition to state safety and propaganda in opposition to Iran’s authorities. She has kept up her activism, regardless of quite a few arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. That features backing the nationwide, women-led protests sparked by the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, which have seen ladies brazenly defy the federal government by not carrying the hijab.