Iranian 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, jailed since her latest arrest in December, has gone on a hunger strike to demand her right to phone calls, her family’s Paris-based lawyer says.
Mohammadi, who was arrested at a protest in the eastern city of Mashhad on December 12, “has been on hunger strike for the last three days,” lawyer Chirinne Ardakani tells AFP.
“She is demanding her right to make a phone call, have access to her lawyers in Iran and to be visited,” Ardakani says.
She adds that Mohammadi’s last phone call to her family dated back to December 14 and that they had been informed of the hunger strike by a detainee who was released from prison.
Mohammadi remains in solitary confinement in prison in Mashhad, where she was arrested while speaking out against the authorities at a funeral ceremony for a lawyer whose death activists regard as suspicious, Ardakani says.
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