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Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi wins the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee picked the winner for the world’s most significant peace prize among 351 candidates, including 259 individuals and 92 organisations.
Last year, the prize went to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights group Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.
The winners had for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens, the committee said at the time, which came during the first year of Russia’s all-out war in Ukraine.
The Peace Prize is the only one of the Nobel prizes to be awarded in Norway’s capital Oslo, rather than Sweden’s capital Stockholm.
Over the past week, the Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Literature Prizes have been announced. The final prize, for economics, is to be announced on Monday.
This year, the prizes are worth 11 million krona ($990,000) in each category.