Narges Mohammadi receives seven-year prison sentence

Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, 53, has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for her ongoing advocacy for women’s rights, as announced by the Narges Foundation. She recently ended a week-long hunger strike and communicated her sentence to her lawyer after weeks of isolation. The charges include six years for assembly against national security, 1.5 years for propaganda against the government, and additional penalties of internal exile and a travel ban. Mohammadi was arrested following her remarks at a memorial for a lawyer whose death she criticized, amid a government crackdown on dissent during ongoing protests.

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