Daijiworld Media Network – Tehran

Tehran, Dec 12: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was “violently” arrested on Friday while attending a memorial ceremony in Mashhad, her supporters said, marking yet another crackdown on one of the country’s most prominent human rights defenders.

Mohammadi, who had been on temporary leave from prison since December 2024, was detained along with several activists during the ceremony held for 45-year-old lawyer Khosrow Alikordi. Alikordi, who represented clients in sensitive political cases and defended those detained during the 2022 nationwide protests, was found dead in his office on December 5. Rights groups have demanded an independent probe into what Iran Human Rights described as “very serious suspicion of a state murder.”

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