Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was violently detained Friday by Iranian security forces while attending a memorial for a deceased human rights lawyer, her supporters said, a move that threatens to deepen tensions between Tehran and the West at a sensitive political moment, according to Associated Press.

Mohammadi, 53, had been on medical furlough since late 2024 and was not expected to be returned to prison, where she has spent years on charges widely condemned as political.

Her foundation said she was seized in Mashhad, about 680 kilometers northeast of Tehran, during a ceremony honoring Khosrow Alikordi, a human rights lawyer found dead under unclear circumstances earlier this month. “She was violently detained earlier today by security and police forces,” the Narges Foundat

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