US EditionNobel winner says 'permanently' barred from leaving Iran
Narges Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for human rights activism, faces a permanent travel ban and risk of re-arrest in Iran, separated from her children for 11 years.
- Narges Mohammadi announced on Thursday she was permanently barred from leaving Iran, though it was not immediately clear when the restriction was imposed.
- Mohammadi, a 2023 Nobel laureate, has faced repeated arrests including November 2021 and spent much of the past decade imprisoned before her December last year medical-leave release.
- Her legal team warns she could be re-arrested and is not able to leave the country, while Mohammadi has refused the compulsory headscarf in international video appearances.
- Her children, Kiana and Ali, now live in Paris, and Mohammadi said she `applied for a passport` to visit them, whom she has not seen for 11 years.
- Mohammadi's situation now positions her case under international attention, as she predicted the downfall of Iran's clerical system and legal advisers warn of possible re-arrest.
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The Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is not allowed to leave Iran.
Narges Mohammadi claimed that she had applied for a passport, but had been banned from leaving the country. The activist feared that she would be arrested again.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is not allowed to leave Iran. On Thursday, the 53-year-old wrote her twins on her 19th birthday, asking for "a passport so that I can come to you." But "the Islamic Republic has issued two kinds of travel bans and put into effect, including a 'permanent travel ban'," she explained. Mohammadi's children Kiana and Ali live in Paris with their father Taghi Rahmani, Mohammadi's husband. The promine…
Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi denounced Thursday that the authorities have banned him from leaving the country “permanently”
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