Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women’s rights, was sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, a group supporting her said yesterday.
Mohammadi, 53, was on a week-long hunger strike that ended yesterday, the Narges Foundation said in a statement.
It said Mohammadi told her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, in a phone call from prison that she had received her sentence on Saturday.
The Iranian foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tehran renewed a crackdown on dissent during nearly three weeks of anti-government protests that started in late December.
Mohammadi was arrested on December 12 after denouncing the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi.
Prosecutor Hasan Hematifar said then she made provocative remarks at Alikordi’s memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
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