By Africanews with AFP
An Iranian court sentenced human rights activist Narges Mohammadi to a six-year prison term for gathering and collusion to commit crimes, her lawyer said on Sunday.
Mohamadi’s lawyer Mostafa Nili added that his client had had also received a two-year ban on leaving the country.
She was also handed a one-and-a-half-year prison sentence for propaganda activities and is to be exiled for two years to the city of Khosf in the eastern province of South Khorasan, the lawyer stated.
Nili expressed hope that due to Mohammadi’s health issues, she could be temporarily “released on bail to receive treatment”.
He added that the verdict issued was not final and could be appealed. Over the past quarter-century, Mohammadi, 53, has been repeatedly tried and jailed for her vocal campaigning against Iran’s use of capital punishment and the mandatory dress code for women.
Mohammadi has spent much of the past decade behind bars and has not seen her twin children, who live in Paris, since 2015. Mohammadi won the peace prize in 2023, primarily for her campaigning against the death penalty in Iran.
In December 2024, she was released for three weeks on medical grounds related to “her physical condition after the removal of a tumour and a bone graft”, according to her lawyer.
Even behind bars, the Nobel laureate has not been silent, staging protests in the prison yard and going on hunger strikes.
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