Ethnic Azerbaijani nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Human rights activist herself is in Iran prison

Nargiz Mohammadi, deputy chairman of the Union for the Protection of Human Rights from the city of Zanjan in South Azerbaijan [northwestern Iran], who is under arrest, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Her candidacy was included in the shortlist announced by Henrik Urdal, director of the Oslo Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Report informs.

It is reported that Urdal named the candidates occupying the first positions in the list, and Mohammadi was on the first line.

In 2022, Mohammadi was awarded the Reporters Without Borders Award in the category "Courage" in Paris.