Iran today confirmed the detention of the Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammaditogether with other activists, during a ceremony in memory of a human rights lawyer, claiming to be due to the use of ‘slogans’ prohibited.
“This temporary detention was carried out by order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and was motivated by the expression of ‘slogans’ who violated the rules”declared Hassan Hosseinigovernor of Mexede, in the province of Coração Razavi, in northeastern Iran, close to the borders with Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.
Quoted by local daily “Jorassan”Hosseini explained that the city’s Security Council had previously coordinated the presence of these people at the funeral of Khosrow Alikordi, human rights lawyer found dead last week, held in a mosque in Meshede, “under the commitment to hold the event in a peaceful environment”.
However, he argued, “a group did not respect this environment and began chanting slogans outside the mosque”so the Public Prosecutor’s Office ended up intervening, arresting Mohammadi and other people “to avoid bigger problems” and with the aim of “protect detainees themselves”.
“Other factions could have reacted and provoked clashes”added the governor.
Hours earlier, the Narges Foundation, managed by Nobel’s family from Paris, had informed of its detention “violent”along with activists Asadollah Fakhimi, Akbar Amini, Hasan Bagherinia and Abolfazl Abri.
Mohammadi delivered a speech at the event and chanted slogans such as “Long live Iran”according to videos published on his personal account on the social network X.
Other images show those present screaming ‘slogans’ against the Islamic Republic, including “Death to the dictator”.
The families of Sepideh Qolian, Pouran Nazemi, Hasti Amiri and Aliyeh Motalebzadeh also confirmed their respective arrests.
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was on parole and, at the end of November, she publicly denounced that the Iranian authorities had had prohibited “permanente” to leave the country and they did not issue him a passport to be able to visit his two children, that you haven’t seen in 11 years.
Mohammadi, 53, has been out of prison for a year when she was released for medical reasons. The activist was arrested 13 times, convicted on nine occasions and was imprisoned for the last time in 2021.
Despite the convictions and imprisonment, the human rights and women’s rights activist has continued to denounce human rights violations in Iran, including the application of the death penalty and violence against women who do not wear the Islamic veil, which ‘hijab’.