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An Iranian tribunal sentenced Nobel Peace Prize victor Narges Mohammadi to a six-year situation term, her lawyer told AFP connected Sunday (February 8, 2026).
"She has been sentenced to six years successful situation for gathering and collusion to perpetrate crimes," lawyer Mostafa Nili said, adding that she had besides received a two-year prohibition connected leaving the country.
Ms. Mohammadi was besides handed a one-and-a-half-year situation condemnation for propaganda activities and is to beryllium exiled for 2 years to the metropolis of Khosf successful the eastbound state of South Khorasan, the lawyer stated.
Under Iranian law, jailhouse sentences tally concurrently. Mr. Nili expressed anticipation that, owed to Ms. Mohammadi's wellness issues, she could beryllium temporarily "released connected bail to person treatment".
He added that the verdict issued was not last and could beryllium appealed.
Over the past quarter-century, Ms. Mohammadi, 53, has been repeatedly tried and jailed for her vocal campaigning against Iran's usage of superior punishment and the mandatory formal codification for women.
Ms. Mohammadi has spent overmuch of the past decennary down bars and has not seen her duplicate children, who unrecorded successful Paris, since 2015.
In December 2024, she was released for 3 weeks connected aesculapian grounds related to "her carnal information aft the removal of a tumour and a bony graft", according to her lawyer.
Even down bars, the Nobel laureate has not been silent, staging protests successful the situation gait and going connected hunger strikes.
Ms. Mohammadi won the bid prize successful 2023, chiefly for her campaigning against the decease punishment successful Iran. Her children collected the grant connected her behalf, arsenic she was successful situation astatine the time.
Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, accidental Iran carries retired much executions each twelvemonth than immoderate different state but China, for which nary reliable figures are available.
