Iranian Nobel laureate faces new trial: family
AFP | New Delhi
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi faces a new trial over accusations she made against the security forces of sexually assaulting female prisoners, her family said yesterday.
The trial, due to begin today, relates to an audio message she shared from prison in April shared by supporters and in which she decried a “full-scale war against women” in the Islamic republic.
She is charged in this latest case with making “propaganda against the regime”, it said.
There has been no comment on the case by the Iranian judicial authorities.
Mohammadi, who is held in Tehran’s Evin prison, urged Iranian women in her April message via her Instagram page to share their stories of arrest and sexual assault at the hands of the authorities.
Mohammadi is already serving sentences based on several convictions issued in recent years, which her family says punish her rights campaigning.
According to her family, her sentences now amount to 12 years and three months of imprisonment, 154 lashes, two years of exile and various social and political restrictions.
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