Nobel Laureate Sentenced: Narges Mohammadi Handed New Prison Term and Exile

An Iranian Revolutionary Court in Mashhad sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to an additional six years in prison for “gathering and collusion to commit crimes.” The 53-year-old activist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2023 while incarcerated, also received a concurrent one-and-a-half-year sentence for “propaganda against the state.” As a supplementary punishment, the court ordered her into internal exile for two years in the remote town of Khosf and imposed a two-year travel ban.

The sentencing follows Mohammadi’s arrest on December 12, 2025, during a memorial service for human rights lawyer Khosrow Alikordi. Her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, reported that Mohammadi refused to offer a defense during the “sham” hearing on February 7, maintaining that the judiciary holds no legitimacy. Her supporters confirmed that she ended a six-day hunger strike on Sunday, which she had launched to protest her detention conditions and the denial of phone calls to her family in Paris.

Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have condemned the verdict as a “lethal repression of dissent.” Mohammadi’s family has expressed grave concerns over her deteriorating physical state, noting she was hospitalized twice during her recent 59-day detention. Despite her illness, she remains one of the most vocal critics of Iran’s mandatory hijab laws and capital punishment.

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