Narges Mohammadi is serving a number of sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison. (FILE)

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Jailed Iranian girls’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi has smuggled out a letter of thanks for her Nobel Peace Prize awarded earlier this month, saying it marked a turning level in “empowering protest and social movements worldwide”.

The imprisoned girls’s rights advocate received the 2023 peace prize on Oct. 6 in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and increase for anti-government protesters, whereas additionally drawing the Islamic Republic’s swift condemnation.

Mohammadi is serving a number of sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison amounting to about 12 years imprisonment, one of many many durations she has been detained behind bars, in line with the Front Line Defenders rights organisation.

Charges embody spreading propaganda in opposition to the state.

In the letter smuggled out of jail and browse by her daughter Kiana in a video posted on the Nobel web site, Mohammadi mentioned the information of her Nobel prize had been met with cries from her cellmates of “Woman, Life, Freedom”, the slogan of the motion of which she is an element.

“I am grateful to all of you and urge you to support the people of Iran until the final victory,” she mentioned within the letter learn by her daughter, the primary official response from Mohammadi to her successful the celebrated award.

“Victory is not easy, but it is certain.”

Tehran, which has referred to as the protest motion in Iran a Western-led subversion, accused the Nobel committee of meddling and politicising the difficulty of human rights within the wake of the choice to award Mohammadi the peace prize.

Mohammadi mentioned she was sending greetings and gratitude to the Nobel Committee on behalf of what she mentioned have been 46 girls prisoners of conscience and political prisoners held at Evin.

Arrested greater than a dozen instances in her life, and held thrice in Evin since 2012, Mohammadi has been unable to see her husband for 15 years and her youngsters for seven.

“The strength of this movement lies in the agency of Iranian women. We assuredly know what we want far better than what we do not want,” she mentioned within the letter, the textual content of which was additionally revealed on the Nobel web site.

“We believe in it, commit to it, and are certain of victory!”

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