The incarcerated activist will stop eating on Sunday, “in solidarity with the Bahai religious minority”, her brother and her husband said on Saturday, on the eve of the ceremony.
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She will mark the occasion in her own way. Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in her country, will observe a new hunger strike on Sunday, December 9, a day during which her Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded, in her absence, to her children in Norway. In fragile health, she had already stopped eating for a few days, at the beginning of November, to obtain the right to be transferred to the hospital without covering her head.
“She will be on hunger strike in solidarity with a religious minority”, said his younger brother. The husband of the 51-year-old activist then clarified that this gesture of solidarity was aimed at the Bahai minority, including two imprisoned leading figures who also began a hunger strike. The largest religious minority in Iran, the Bahai community is the target of discrimination in many sectors of society, according to its representatives.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in October for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all”, the activist has been arrested and convicted many times in recent decades. She is one of the main faces of the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising in Iran.
