Iran Court Hands Down New Sentence Against Nobel Laureate

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, Tehran, Iran, April 2, 2021. © 2021 Reihane Taravati/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Last week, an Iranian court imposed a new bogus sentence on imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi. She received another year in Iran’s Evin prison on charges of “propaganda against the state.”In January 2022, the same court, Branch 29 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, sentenced her to two years prison and 74 lashes.In imposing the additional sentence, the court cited…

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