Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence

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Peace prize winner and women’s rights activist is refusing to attend hearings in Tehran

opened on Saturday in her absence, said a lawyer for the women’s rights activist who has refused to attend hearings.“The hearing of Ms Narges Mohammadi was held today without her presence at the 29th Branch,” of the Revolutionary court in the capital Tehran, said lawyer Mostafa Nili on X.

The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online website said on 22 April that Ghalibaf “had not been raped” and that she was being prosecuted for making a “false statement”. The Nobel laureate in March shared an audio message from prison, in which she decried a “full-scale war against women” in the Islamic republic.

Under rules adopted shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution, women in Iran are required to cover their hair and dress modestly in public spaces.Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on gender pay gap

 

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