Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for "her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all."

Mohammadi has long campaigned for women's rights and for the abolition of the death penalty. It has come at a huge personal cost – she's been sentenced to more than 30 years in jail and has been banned from seeing her husband and children.

The Iranian regime has imprisoned Narges Mohammadi for her advocacy work against the oppression of women inside Iran, CNN reports.

“Her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs," Norwegian Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said at the announcement ceremony on October 6.

The government in Iran has arrested Mohammadi 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison, and 154 lashes, according to Reiss-Andersenn.

Following her release on bail, she was re-arrested in 2015 and sentenced to additional time in jail, the Nobel Prize said on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

But even behind walls, she has used her voice to campaign rail against the use of the death penalty in Iran and the regime's mandatory hijab law.