Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi says Tehran issuing death threats

By AFP 11 July 2025, 12:47 pm

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Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 6, 2023. (AFP/ Narges Mohammadi Foundation/ File)

Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for women’s and human rights in Iran, has received death threats from Tehran, the Nobel Committee says.

Committee chairman Jorgen Watne Frydnes received an “urgent phone call” from Mohammadi, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says, and “the clear message, in her own words, is that ‘I have been directly and indirectly threatened with ‘physical elimination’ by agents of the regime'” if she doesn’t stop advocating for democracy and human rights.