Jailed Nobel winner Mohammadi to continue protests, she says in smuggled letter

STOCKHOLM: Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi will proceed her combat for human rights even when it results in her dying, she stated in a letter smuggled out from jail and printed on Monday by Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
Mohammadi is serving a number of sentences in Tehran’s infamous Evin jail on expenses together with spreading propaganda towards the Islamic Republic.
“Imprisonment, psychological torture, fixed solitary confinement, sentence after sentence; that hasn’t and isn’t going to cease me,” she wrote, in accordance with SVT.
“I’m going to face up for freedom and equality even when it prices me my life.”
SVT stated the letter was written in reply to questions that had been smuggled into the jail through intermediaries, however didn’t reveal particulars of how the trade had taken place.
Mohammadi started a starvation strike in November to protest towards what she stated was the jail’s failure to present her entry to medical care.
Within the temporary feedback printed by SVT, which gave no details about her well being, Mohammadi stated she missed her youngsters, Kiana and Ali, probably the most.
“Significantly nowadays, when all the brand new prisoners speak concerning the interviews the 2 have accomplished….It’s greater than eight years since I noticed them,” she wrote.
Kiana instructed SVT that the household had not had any direct contact with Mohammadi for a yr and 9 months.
“Earlier than that we’d sometimes converse on the phone, however that has stopped,” the 17 year-old stated.
This yr’s Nobel festivities will happen on December 10 in Oslo and Stockholm. Mohammadi shall be represented by her youngsters, Ali and Kiana Rahman, in accordance the Nobel Basis.
The 2 will obtain Mohammadi’s diploma and gold medal at Oslo’s Metropolis Corridor and provides the Nobel Prize lecture on behalf of their mom.