Mohammadi was awarded for his fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for his fight for human rights and freedom.
The activist who received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Narges Mohammadi will start another hunger strike in an Iranian prison when Mohammad’s award is presented in Oslo on Sunday in his absence.
Mohammadi’s family told about it at a press conference held in Oslo on Saturday.
– He is not here with us today — but we feel his presence here, his younger brother Hamidreza Mohammadi said. Husband of Narges Mohammad by Taghi Rahman according to the current hunger strike is a gesture of solidarity for a religious minority discriminated in Iran, the Bahai community, whose two imprisoned leaders have begun to refuse food.
According to Rahman, Mohammadi said he would begin a sit-in strike on the day of the award.
– Maybe then the world will hear more about it, Rahmani said Mohammad said.
The ceremony for the recipient of the Peace Prize will take place today, Sunday, in Oslo, starting at 14:00 Finnish time. The celebrations for the other awards, on the other hand, will be held in Stockholm from 5 p.m.
The children represent their mother at the award ceremony
Mohammadi was awarded for his fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for his fight for human rights and freedom. The 51-year-old activist has spent most of the past two decades in prison. He has not seen his children for almost nine years.
About a month ago, he organized a several-day hunger strike. At that time, Mohammadi protested with a strike against the restrictions on medical care for himself and his fellow prisoners, as well as against women being forced to wear headscarves.
Mohammadi has refused under any circumstances to wear the hijab, a headscarf that covers the hair. Because of this, the prison authorities have not given permission to move him outside the prison to receive hospital treatment.
Mohammad’s family said at the beginning of November that the Nobel laureate would need immediate hospital treatment for, among other things, heart problems.
Mohammad, who has been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison since 2021, will be represented at the ceremony in Oslo by his 17-year-old twin children Under and Kianawho have been living in exile in France since 2015.
On Sunday, Mohammad’s children are scheduled to read a speech their mother managed to smuggle out of her cell. The award ceremony will be attended by the Norwegian royal family and other dignitaries.
STT-AFP