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Human rights activist Mohammadi was awarded Nobel Peace Prize behind bars in October

Iran's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi begins a hunger strike over compulsory hijab & restrictions on medical care for her and fellow prisoners.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike Monday over being blocked along with other inmates from getting medical care and to protest the countrys mandatory headscarves for women, a campaign advocating for the activist said.

Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday in protest over what she said was the jail’s refusal to provide her with medical treatment, according to a family statement provided to CNN.

PARIS: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike in her Iranian prison to protest the limits on medical care for her and other inmates, as well as the obligation for women to wear the hijab in the Islamic Republic, her family said on Monday.

Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday in protest over what she said was the jail’s refusal to provide her with medical treatment, according to a family statement provided to CNN.

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike in her Iranian prison in protest at limits on medical care for her and other inmates, as well as the obligation for women to wear the hijab in the Islamic republic, her family said on Monday."Narges went on a hunger strike today in protesting two things: The Islamic Republic's policy of delaying and neglecting medical care for sick inmates... (and) the policy of 'mandatory hijab' for Iranian women," the ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported. The women's rights advocate won the award on Oct. 6 in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders, who accused the Nobel committee of meddling and politicizing the issue of human rights. HRANA said authorities had not let the 51-year-old go to...