Screenshot showing Narges Mohammadi speaking at the gathering in Mashhad on Dec. 12. (Photo taken from the Twitter account of the Narges Foundation @nargesfnh)
“Our voices rise together, strong and determined,” journalist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi told a crowd gathered in Mashhad on Dec. 12, just before being violently arrested along with about 40 other activists. The gathering in this city of northeastern Iran was organized in honor of Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer who had defended several political prisoners, and was found dead in his office six days earlier in circumstances his relatives deemed suspicious. Mohammadi is back in prison, accused of “collaboration with the State of Israel,” according to her relatives. Tensely anticipating another war Israel lays the groundwork for a new attack against Iran These arrests mark the peak of political repression in Iran since the June 2025 war between Iran and Israel.Weakened by the threat of a new open conflict with...
“Our voices rise together, strong and determined,” journalist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi told a crowd gathered in Mashhad on Dec. 12, just before being violently arrested along with about 40 other activists. The gathering in this city of northeastern Iran was organized in honor of Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer who had defended several political prisoners, and was found dead in his office six days earlier in circumstances his relatives deemed suspicious. Mohammadi is back in prison, accused of “collaboration with the State of Israel,” according to her relatives. Tensely anticipating another war Israel lays the groundwork for a new attack against Iran These arrests mark the peak of political repression in Iran since the June 2025 war between Iran and Israel.Weakened by the threat of a new open conflict...
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