The youngsters of jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi have accepted this yr’s Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf at a ceremony in Oslo.
The 17-year-old twins Kiana and Ali Rahmani collected the prize awarded to Ms Mohammadi by the Norwegian Nobel committee final month.
Ms Mohammadi, who’s famend for campaigning for girls’s rights and democracy in Iran, in addition to combating in opposition to the dying penalty, is presently in jail in Tehran.
In a speech learn out by her youngsters, Ms Mohammadi, 51, stated the Iranian individuals would in the end overcome authoritarianism.
“The Iranian people, with perseverance, will overcome repression and authoritarianism. Have no doubt, this is certain,” she stated in her speech despatched from Iran’s infamous Evin jail.
Her daughter, who lives in exile in Paris along with her brother and father, stated she had little hope of seeing her mom once more.
“Maybe I’ll see her in 30 or 40 years, but I think I won’t see her again,” Ms Rahmani stated.
“But that doesn’t matter because my mother will always live on in my heart, values that are worth fighting for.”
Ms Mohammadi’s husband Taghi Rahmani has beforehand stated he has not been capable of see his spouse for 11 years, whereas their youngsters have not seen their mom for seven years.
The girls’s rights activist was symbolically represented on stage in Oslo City Hall by her portrait and an empty chair.
It is the fifth time within the 122-year historical past of the awards that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given to somebody in jail or beneath home arrest.
Ms Mohammadi was awarded the prize simply over a yr after nationwide protests in Iran, triggered by the dying of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini within the custody of the Iranian morality police. She was accused of violating the nation’s strict headband legislation which forces girls to cowl their hair and our bodies.
The protests have been put down with lethal pressure.
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In her message from jail, Ms Mohammadi stated: “We believe that the mandatory hijab imposed by the government is neither a religious obligation or a cultural tradition, but rather a means of maintaining control and submission throughout society.
“The actuality is that the Islamic Republic regime is at its lowest degree of legitimacy and fashionable social assist.
“Now is the time for international civil society to support Iranian civil society, and I will exert all my efforts in this regard.”
Iran has branded the protests Western-led subversion and has accused the Nobel committee of meddling.
Ms Mohammadi is the nineteenth lady to win the peace prize and the second Iranian lady after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi received the award in 2003.
Source: information.sky.com”