an organization founded by fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. Mohammadi was held in solitary confinement for a month, during which time her brother says she was tortured.

Mohammadi was the second Iranian women’s rights activist to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 laureate, has lived in exile since 2009 amid threats of ...

Mohammadi is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi in 2003. Mohammadi, 52, has kept up her activism despite numerous ...

It was cofounded by Shirin Ebadi, the only other Iranian to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the 2000s, she joined the Defenders of Human Rights Center set up by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, an organisation of which Mohammadi remains vice president. She was jailed from ...

Mohammadi is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman, after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won in 2003. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Friday's ...