An Iranian court sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to a six-year prison term, her lawyer tells AFP.
“She has been sentenced to six years in prison for gathering and collusion to commit crimes,” lawyer Mostafa Nili said, adding that she had also received a two-year ban on leaving the country.
Mohammadi also received a one-and-a-half-year prison sentence for propaganda activities and is sentenced to be exiled for two years to the city of Khosf in the eastern province of South Khorasan, the lawyer stated.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 in recognition of her activism. Over the past quarter-century, Mohammadi, 53, has been repeatedly tried and jailed for her vocal campaigning against Iran’s use of capital punishment and the mandatory dress code for women.
She has spent much of the past decade behind bars and has not seen her twin children, who live in Paris, since 2015.
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