Iranian authorities arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on Friday, her foundation said, citing her brother.
The Paris-based foundation said Mohammadi was “violently detained” by security and police forces during a memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer recently found dead in his office. It cited “verified reports” and her brother, Mehdi. It’s unclear where exactly in Iran she was detained.
One of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023.
She has spent most of the past two decades as an inmate of Tehran’s Evin prison – notorious for housing critics of the regime.
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