Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to six years in prison by an Iranian court.
Her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, said the charge is "association and collusion to commit crimes," a sort of conspiracy charge. The sentence also includes a two-year travel ban.
Mohammadi's lawyer said that the Nobel Prize winner had also been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for propaganda activities , with an obligation to reside for two years in the city of Khosf, in the eastern province of South Khorasan.
In recent weeks, Mohammadi has been held in solitary confinement in Mashhad prison after being arrested on December 12, during the funeral of Khosrow Alikordi, a human rights lawyer found dead under suspicious circumstances.
In prison, a few days ago, the woman had begun a hunger strike. Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Prize for her twenty-year fight for human rights, particularly women's rights, has also spent long periods in prison in the past.
(Unioneonline)
