Paris, France — Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike in her Iranian prison in protest at limits on medical care for her and other inmates, as well as the obligation for women to wear the hijab in the Islamic republic, her family said on Monday.
Mohammadi is refusing under any circumstances to wear a hijab, the head covering which has been obligatory for women in public spaces since shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. “The requirement that female inmates must wear a hijab in order to be hospitalised is inhumane and morally unacceptable,” she said.
“Narges Mohammadi should not be in jail in the first place,” it added, saying Iran should “immediately” release her and “urgently transfer her to a hospital to receive medical treatment.”First arrested 22 years ago, Mohammadi has spent much of the past two decades in and out of jail over her campaigning for human rights in Iran.
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