Narges Mohammadi, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner: ‘Iranian society no longer tolerates the Islamic Republic’

Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, says Iranian society no longer tolerates the Islamic Republic. In an interview, she describes her continued human rights activism despite facing a prison sentence of at least 18 years, and says writing her memoir from prison was a duty despite the risks.

Mohammadi says she was seriously injured during her December 2025 detention, held in solitary confinement and denied medical care before her sentence was suspended in May following two heart attacks. She has been arrested 14 times and sentenced to a total of 44 years in prison and 154 lashes; she has spent 161 days in solitary confinement and has not seen her twins since they went into exile in Paris in 2015. She also says the Nobel Prize intensified pressure on her and her family, while describing solitary confinement as a means of coercion that can lead to forced confessions and death sentences.