An Iranian court imposed fresh punishment on Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, according to her lawyer.
The supplied AFP report via GMA News says the court sentenced Mohammadi to six years in prison for gathering and collusion to commit crimes, added a one-and-a-half-year sentence for propaganda activities, imposed a two-year ban on leaving the country and ordered two years of exile to Khosf in South Khorasan. Under Iranian law, the jail terms run concurrently, which means the effective prison term is six years.
That distinction is important because raw sentence totals can make a punishment seem longer than it legally is. In this case, the lawyer’s explanation in the excerpt makes clear that the imprisonment period and the internal exile are separate components of the judgment.
The report says the verdict is not final and can be appealed. It also says the lawyer hoped Mohammadi could receive bail for treatment because of health issues. Those details suggest the case is still moving through Iran’s legal system, even as the punitive effect is immediate.
Mohammadi is one of Iran’s best-known rights advocates. The packet says she has spent much of the past decade in prison, has repeatedly been tried for campaigning against the death penalty and mandatory dress code, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while already incarcerated. Her children accepted the award on her behalf.
The source also notes that she was briefly released on medical grounds in December 2024 after surgery and a bone graft. That history matters because it shows the new sentence is being imposed against the backdrop of a long campaign by Iranian authorities to silence or constrain her activism.
What the evidence does not include is the court’s full written verdict, the names of the presiding judges or any official comment from the judiciary. It also does not provide a defense statement beyond the lawyer’s summary, so the article should avoid broader claims about the case beyond what is quoted.
Still, the implications are clear. A Nobel laureate who has become a global symbol of resistance to Iran’s execution policy and social controls is being pushed back toward prison and exile. The travel ban and banishment are especially telling because they restrict both movement and domestic freedom, not just incarceration.
Human rights groups have long said Iran uses a combination of prison terms, travel restrictions and internal exile to keep dissidents isolated. The packet does not make that argument explicitly, but the sentence imposed on Mohammadi fits the pattern closely enough to explain why the case is attracting attention abroad.
On the event date, the verified outcome was stark: Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to prison, banned from leaving Iran and sent into internal exile, with the option of appeal still open but the pressure on her activism unmistakable.
