\u00a0Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi\u00a0won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for fighting the oppression of women in Iran.
“She fights for women against systematic discrimination and oppression,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee who announced the prize in Oslo.
Authorities arrested Mohammadi in November after she attended a memorial for a victim of violent 2019 protests. Mohammadi has a long history of imprisonment, harsh sentences and international calls for reviews of her case.Agostini, Krausz and L'Huillier win physics Nobel for looking at electrons in fractions of seconds
Ebadi left Iran after the disputed re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 that touched off unprecedented protests and harsh crackdowns by authorities. In 2018, Mohammadi, an engineer, was awarded the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize. of 11 million Swedish kronor . Winners also receive an 18-carat gold medal and diploma at the award ceremonies in December.
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