2023-10-06 20:39:50
Paris: 51-year-old Nargus Mohammadi is the fifth person to seek the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison. Activist and journalist Nargis is fighting once morest forced headscarves and the death penalty in Iran. Nargis spent most of the last 20 years in jail. She is the Vice President of the Human Rights Center founded by Shireen Ebadi. In 2003, Shireen Ibadi received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Those who won the Peace Prize while in prison are:
1935: Carl von Ositzky, Germany
In 1935, journalist and pacifist Karl von Ositzky received the Nobel Prize while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. He was unable to travel to Oslo to receive the award. He was also the first government artist to win this award. Enraged by the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision, Adolf Hitler banned all German citizens from accepting the Nobel in any category. Ositzky was unable to collect his diploma and gold Nobel medal, and a German lawyer tricked his family into pocketing the prize money. Ositzky died in prison in 1938.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest for protesting the military’s crackdown on democracy. Suu Kyi, honored for her “non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”, feared she would not be allowed to return to Myanmar if she went to Oslo. Instead, her two sons and husband accepted the award on her behalf at the 1991 awards ceremony. Symbolically, an empty chair was placed on the stage to mark her absence. After her release in 2010, she gave the traditional Nobel lecture in 2012. After the generals seized power in February 2021, Suu Kyi was once more detained. In 2022, she was jailed for 33 years, which was later partially reduced by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing.
2010: Liu Xiaobo, China
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 while in prison. Liu, who was serving an 11-year prison sentence for coup d’état, was honored for his “long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”, symbolically emptying his chair. After the prize was announced, his wife, Liu Xia, was placed under house arrest and the three brothers were prevented from leaving China. He died of liver cancer in July 2017 at the age of 61 in a Chinese hospital. At the same time, he became the second Nobel laureate to die in prison.
2022: Ales Bialiatsky, Belarus
Ales Bialiatsky is a Belarusian human rights activist. He will win the Nobel Peace Prize in July 2021 while serving his prison sentence. He was jailed for tax evasion for protesting once morest Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.
His wife Natalia Pinchuk accepted the award on his behalf.
1696626490
#people #won #Nobel #Peace #Prize #prison #NEWS #WORLD
