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born 1972 Iran
Narges Mohammadi (Persian: نرگس محمدی; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center. In May 2016, she was imprisoned in Tehran for establishing and running "a human rights movement that campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty"; she was released in 2020.
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Killing, imprisoning or denying the rights of a human being is not injustice against one person; it enchains and kills a whole society.
I will continue my efforts until we achieve peace, tolerance for a plurality of views, and human rights.
Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize (2018)
Without universities independent of government control, the natural process of acquiring knowledge and developing thought will be thwarted, if not rendered impossible.
Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize (2018)
I am not hopeless nor have I lost my motivation. We cannot stop trying. I still hope and deeply believe that the tireless efforts of our civil society activists will eventually bear fruit.
Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize (2018)
I have come to this conclusion: the aim of solitary confinement is brain-washing, so that prisoners, deprived of normal living conditions, lose their unique human characteristics, their train of thought and ideas, and their physical and psychological health.
They are only deceitful words that make a mockery of justice when a judicial system detains, convicts and punishes people according to the biased and malicious opinions of security-military agencies and denies prisoners their legal rights.
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