The US calls for the “immediate” release of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi

MADRID Dec. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The United States Government has demanded that the Iranian authorities “immediately” and “unconditionally” release Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, as well as “other political prisoners” who remain detained in the Central Asian country.

“It remains deeply worrying and unfortunate because she should never have been imprisoned in the first place. Her deteriorating health is a direct result of the abuses she has suffered at the hands of the Iranian regime,” the deputy spokesman for the Department of Defense said at a press conference. State, Vedant Patel.

In this sense, he highlighted that this is “another example” of Iran’s “campaign” to “silence” those who are critical of the Government, which includes journalists and human rights activists like Mohammadi. “This type of behavior has to stop,” Patel said.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner was temporarily released the day before for medical reasons, as confirmed by her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, who explained that the Iranian judicial apparatus has suspended the application of her sentence for “three weeks” after removing a “benign tumor.”

The prominent activist, 52, was hospitalized at the end of October after her family and her close circle reported that the authorities had been preventing her from receiving medical treatment for more than two months despite the deterioration of her health.

The admission took place after more than 240 activists signed a petition demanding her hospitalization and denouncing that Tehran sought to “impose a ‘silent death'” on Mohammadi, who remains imprisoned in the Evin prison, the most important in the Central Asian country.

Mohammadi has spent most of the last 20 years of her life in prison and has been convicted up to five times, accumulating a sentence of 31 years in prison, mainly for her role in protests against the strict dress code in Iran.

Throughout her life, the activist, who will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, has founded associations in defense of women’s rights and written books and articles to denounce the abuses to which they are subjected by the forces. security and authorities, particularly in the country’s prisons.