Iranian security forces on Friday "violently" arrested the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists at a memorial ceremony for a lawyer who died earlier this month, her supporters said.

Mohammadi, who was granted temporary leave from prison in December 2024, was detained along with eight other activists at the ceremony for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead in his office last week, her foundation wrote on X.

Those arrested at the ceremony in the eastern city of Mashhad included Mohammadi's fellow prominent activist Sepideh Gholian, who had previously been jailed alongside her in Tehran's Evin prison.

Also writing on X, Mohammadi's Paris-based husband, Taghi Rahmani, confirmed the arrests. The Hengaw rights group said the activists

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