Emmanuel Ukudolo I Wednesday, February 11.26
MASHHAD, IRAN — Chilling reports from within the Iranian penal system have emerged detailing the severe physical brutalization of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
Sources close to the activist indicate that she has been subjected to a series of violent assaults, including being kicked repeatedly in the pelvic region, leaving her in such agonizing pain that she is currently unable to sit.
The reports of this latest escalation in violence come as Mohammadi, 53, continues her defiant stance against the Iranian regime from a security detention center in Mashhad.
According to her legal team and supporters, the physical trauma follows a “violent arrest” in December 2025 and a subsequent six-day hunger strike that ended earlier this week.
Mohammadi’s family and the Free Narges Coalition have long warned that the activist’s life is in jeopardy.
During her arrest at a memorial service in December, she was reportedly beaten with batons and sticks on her head and neck.
The recent accounts of targeted strikes to her lower body suggest a deliberate attempt by prison officials to inflict long-term physical suffering.
The activist, who has a history of heart disease and recently underwent surgery for a bone lesion, was briefly hospitalized before being returned to the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention center—allegedly before her treatment was complete.
”Narges offered no defense, steadfast in her belief that this judiciary holds no legitimacy,” her husband, Taghi Rahmani, stated following a recent sham trial. “She views these proceedings as a mere charade.”
Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
She has spent the better part of the last two decades cycling in and out of prison, a victim of 14 separate arrests.
Her current ordeal follows a new sentence handed down on February 7, 2026, which added: Six years for “assembly and collusion against national security.”
One and a half years for “propaganda against the state.”
Two years of internal exile to the remote city of Khosf.
Despite these crushing sentences and the physical toll of her incarceration, Mohammadi has remained a vocal supporter of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, smuggling messages of hope and resistance out of the very walls intended to silence her.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee and human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have condemned the “brutal” treatment of Mohammadi.
The systematic denial of medical care and the reports of sexualized violence and physical assault have sparked a fresh wave of international pressure on Tehran.
As Mohammadi remains in a precarious state of health, unable to even sit due to the severity of her injuries, her supporters argue that her condition is not just a medical crisis, but a testament to the lengths the regime will go to break the spirit of its most celebrated prisoner.
