Nobel winner Mohammadi ‘celebrates’ prize in jail

Rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi “celebrated” her Nobel Peace Prize with fellow detainees in their Tehran prison cell, her family told AFP yesterday.

“Narges learned that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday afternoon from messages sent from the men’s unit, where they have easier access to telephones on Fridays,” her family said.

That same evening, “state television broadcast the news at 10.30 pm with an insulting and defamatory portrait of Narges”, the family’s statement continued.

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