Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Narges Mohammadi of Iran

Stockholm: Narges Mohammadi is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all," the committee said in its citation.

Mohammadi is one of Iran's leading human rights activists, who has campaigned for women's rights and the abolition of the death penalty.

She is currently serving multiple sentences in Tehran's Evin Prison amounting to about 12 years imprisonment, according to the Front Line Defenders rights organization, one of the many periods she has been detained behind bars.

Charges include spreading propaganda against the state.

Mohammadi was picked from 351 candidates this year for the world's most significant peace prize.

They included 259 individuals and 92 organizations.

Mohammadi joins the ranks of Mother Teresa, former US President Jimmy Carter and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines as winners of the world's most famous peace prize.