Iran's Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi faces a new term

Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women's rights, was sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years.



Mohammadi, 53, was on a week-long hunger strike that ended on Sunday, ⁠the Narges Foundation said in a statement.



It said Mohammadi told her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, in a phone call on Sunday from prison that she had received her sentence on Saturday.



The Iranian foreign ministry did not immediately ⁠respond to a request for comment.



Tehran renewed a crackdown on dissent during nearly three weeks of anti-government protests that started in late December.



Mohammadi was arrested on December 12 after denouncing the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi.



Prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters then she made provocative remarks at Alikordi's memorial ⁠ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad and encouraged those present "to chant norm-breaking slogans" and "disturb the peace".



Mohammadi sentence includes six years imprisonment for assembly and collusion against national security and 1-1/2 years for propaganda against the government.