Arya News - Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was arrested Friday by Iranian authorities, according to the foundation in her name.
Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi reportedly was arrested Friday by Iranian authorities, according to the foundation in her name.
The Paris-based rights group said that security and police forces "violently detained" Mohammadi and other human rights activists during a memorial for Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer recently discovered dead.
"Further details remain unavailable at this time," the Narges Foundation posted on social media on behalf of Mohammadi.
The organization said her precise location inside Iran was unknown, citing accounts and information via her brother, Mehdi.
Mohammadi is one of Iran"s foremost human rights lawyers and the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
She was serving a total of 31 years on charges of supposedly acting against national security and spreading propaganda.
Mohammadi spent much of the last two decades in Tehran"s notorious Evin prison, which is known for detaining regime critics.
Last year in December, Iranian authorities temporarily suspended Mohammadi"s prison sentence for three weeks to allow time for recovery from November surgery to remove a potentially cancerous lesion in her right leg.
She was expected to return to prison shortly after, but over the past year ramped up activism, speaking out on Iran"s human rights abuses .
Last week, she penned an op-ed declaring Iranians cannot know true peace under a regime that dominates every facet of their lives.
"Their peace is disrupted by surveillance, censorship, arbitrary arrest, torture and the constant threat of violence," she wrote in Time Magazine, calling for support in Iranian society, its independent media and for human and women"s rights .