Children Of Imprisoned Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Accept The Nobel Peace Prize On Her Behalf
New Age
Islam News Bureau
11 December 2023
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Children
Of Imprisoned Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Accept The Nobel Peace Prize On
Her Behalf
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Zionist
Enemy Holds 142 Female Detainees In Gaza, Including Infant Girls In Prisons
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US Special
Envoy For Afghan, Rina Amiri, Urges Investment in Female Education in
Afghanistan
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Women
Group Made To Apologise For Performing Yoga At Taj Mahal
·
Muslim Personal
Law Says Women Have Share In Inheritance: Scholars
·
Borno
Muslim Women To Army: Compensate Victims Of Tudun Biri Bombing
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Children Of Imprisoned Iranian Activist Narges
Mohammadi Accept The Nobel Peace Prize On Her Behalf
Kiana and
Ali Rahmani, 17, collected the prize on behalf of their mother who they have
not seen for years
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December 10, 2023
The teenage children of imprisoned
Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in the
Norwegian capital on Sunday on behalf of the mother they haven’t seen in years,
reading out a speech she penned from a Tehran prison as her medal rested on an
empty chair.
Mohammadi, 51, was awarded the 2023
Nobel Peace Prize in October for her decades of activism despite numerous
arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. She is renowned
for campaigning for women's rights and democracy in her country, as well as
fighting against the death penalty.
Kiana and Ali Rahmani, Mohammadi’s
17-year-old twins who live in exile in Paris with their father, received the
prestigious award at Oslo City Hall, which was richly adored with blue orchids
for the occasion. Daughter Kiana read the first part of the Nobel Peace Prize
lecture in their mother's name, and her brother continued it.
“I write this message from behind the
high, cold walls of a prison," Mohammadi said in the speech. "I am a
Middle Eastern woman, and come from a region which, despite its rich
civilization, is now trapped amid war, the fire of terrorism, and extremism.”
In the presence of Norway's King Harald
and Queen Sonja and other dignitaries, Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairwoman of the
Norwegian Nobel Committee, cited Mohammadi's “life-long struggle in support of
human rights and strong civil society.”
A large portrait on display showed
Mohammadi in pastel colors and smiling.
“She has asked us to use this particular
photograph, which expresses how she wants to lead her life, looking happy in
colorful garments, exposing her hair and with a steady gaze towards us,”
Reiss-Andersen said.
“No punishment has stopped her,”
Reiss-Andersen said, citing the sentences of imprisonment and over 150 lashes
that have been imposed on her. She said when Mohammadi needed medical treatment
recently, she was told she would be taken to a hospital on condition she wear a
hijab. She refused, and was eventually taken to a different medical facility.
“When everything has been denied her,
she still mobilizes the willpower and courage to make a statement,"
Reiss-Andersen said.
"This year's Peace Prize recognizes
the brave women in Iran and around the world who fight for basic human rights
and for an end to the discrimination and against segregation of women."
In their speeches, Mohammadi's children
both expressed regret that their mother wasn't allowed to be present in Oslo.
“She should have been here herself, but
she was prevented by the executioners. I lend my voice to hers, and to all the
girls and women of Iran whom nothing can silence,” Kiana Rahmani said in Farsi
at the beginning of her speech given in French.
Her brother noted that their mother's
“body is behind bars but her pen and thoughts have burst through the walls and
reached us."
“She and the Iranian people have never
been more oppressed than now. But never has their voice resonated so strongly
in the world. Let us continue to spread the reverberation so that Narges
Mohammadi and the Iranian people will one day be able to break their chains,”
he said.
At a news conference in Oslo on
Saturday, Kiana Rahmani read out a message from her mother in which she praised
the role international media played in “conveying the voice of dissenters,
protesters and human rights defenders to the world.”
“Iranian society needs global support
and you, journalists and media professionals are our greatest and most
important allies in the difficult struggle against the destructive tyranny of
the Islamic Republic government. I sincerely thank you for your efforts, for
all you’ve done for us,” Mohammadi said.
Kiana Rahmani said she held little hope
of seeing her mother again.
“Maybe I’ll see her in 30 or 40 years,
but I think I won’t see her again. But that doesn’t matter, because my mother
will always live on in my heart, values that are worth fighting for,” she said.
Mohammadi’s brother and husband told
reporters that she planned to go on a hunger strike on Sunday in solidarity
with the Baha’i Faith religious minority in Iran.
Mohammadi's husband, Taghi, was in the
audience to watch their children accept the prestigious prize. He had
previously said that he hadn’t been able to see his wife for 11 years, while
their children hadn't seen their mother for nearly eight years.
Mohammadi played a leading role in
protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last year while in
police custody for allegedly violating the country’s strict headscarf law,
which forces women to cover their hair and entire bodies.
Iranian authorities banned members of
Amini’s family from traveling to accept the European Union’s top human rights
prize — the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought — on her behalf, the
U.S.-based HRANA said late Saturday.
Narges Mohammadi is the 19th woman to win
the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman after human rights activist
Shirin Ebadi in 2003.
It’s the fifth time in the 122-year
history of the awards that the peace prize has been given to someone who is in
prison or under house arrest.
The rest of the Nobel prizes were being
handed out in separate ceremonies in Stockholm later Sunday.
Source: thehindu.com
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/children-of-imprisoned-iranian-activist-narges-mohammadi-accept-the-nobel-peace-prize-on-her-behalf/article67625430.ece
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Zionist Enemy Holds 142 Female Detainees
In Gaza, Including Infant Girls In Prisons
Israeli
soldiers detain a 10-year-old Palestinian boy Ismail en-Nicce in Hebron, West
Bank on September 23, 2021. ( FILE PHOTO - Anadolu Agency )
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[11/December/2023]
RAMALLAH December 11. 2023 (Saba) - The
Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners'
Club have revealed that 142 detainees, women and girls from the Gaza Strip,
were detained in the Zionist enemy's prisons, including infant girls and
elderly women, who were arrested during the ground aggression on the Gaza
Strip.
According to available data, a joint
statement by the Commission and the Prisoner’s Club said The female detainees
are being held in several prisons, including “Damon” and “Hasharon” prisons.
Prisoners' institutions had previously
issued a statement in which they said that the Zionist enemy was carrying out
horrific and atrocious crimes against Gaza detainees, in addition to refusing
to reveal their fate, in terms of their numbers, places of detention, and their
health condition.
In light of the shocking and horrific
images and testimonies from citizens who were recently arrested from Gaza, the
level of fears for their fate is increasing day after day, and prisoner
institutions do not rule out the enemy carrying out field executions against
detainees from Gaza.
It is noteworthy that the Zionist enemy
prison administration announced at the end of November the presence of 260
detainees from Gaza, whom it classified as illegal combatants.
The fascist minister in the government
of the Zionist enemy, Itamar Ben Gvir, as part of the systematic torture and
abuse operations, submitted a request to the prison administration official,
including the transfer of detainees from Gaza to the cell section (Rakvit)
located under NitzanRamla prison, which is considered one of the worst and
oldest prisons.
Source: saba.ye
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3287470.htm
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US Special Envoy For Afghan, Rina Amiri,
Urges Investment in Female Education in Afghanistan
10 Dec 2023
MitraMajeedy
The US special envoy for Afghan human
rights and women, Rina Amiri, called for investment in the female education
sector in Afghanistan, in a bid to provide the way for a modern and “inclusive
Afghanistan.”
Speaking at a session at the Doha Forum,
Amiri said: “It is a moral imperative and it is a strategic imperative. If we
want Afghanistan to continue on the road to a modern and inclusive Afghanistan
that is not a threat to itself or to its neighbours, invest in Afghanistan,
invest in its education and its population, that is what we are collectively
seeking to do,” she said.
Speaking at the same session, Roya
Mahboob, Afghan businesswoman and entrepreneur, said that the people in
Afghanistan want change.
“Many people, even during the Doha
agreement, many ... said that the Taliban has been changed, or they say that
the people of Afghanistan, they don’t want this type of education. It wasn’t
true. In the last two-years, we have seen that the protest that is happening
either by women or either by men and it has happened everywhere of
Afghanistan,” she said. “It is not only because they are in bigger cities. It
seems that people want change… their mindset also changed about the women’s
ability. They want their girls and their daughter be able to go school.”
Amiri said that the recognition of the
“Taliban” has no link with the girls' education.
“We use the term normalization not
recognition. It is not simply a check-off of 'give girls an education and you
will be recognized,' this is a process in which we are coordinating with the
rest of the international community and there is much to be done for the
Taliban to get that type of normalization that they seek,” she said.
But the Islamic Emirate’s spokesman,
Zabiullah Mujahid, stressed that human rights are ensured in the country,
saying that such meetings are highlighting the negative points in Afghanistan.
“The issue of Afghanistan belongs to the
Afghans inside the country. We don’t accept any ‘policy’ from abroad nor the
suggestion. We want to have practical actions inside the country,” Mujahid
said.
Some of the participants meanwhile
called the presence of the Islamic Emirate’s delegation important in the
meetings on Afghanistan in a bid to pave the way for a solution.
“Not only do we have to invite them, but
we also have to be willing and courageous enough to go sit with them in Kabul,”
said RanginaHameedi, former education minister.
The meeting on the Reconstruction of
Education for Women in Afghanistan in Doha comes as girl students above grade
six have been deprived of schooling for
more than 810 days since the Islamic Emirate swept into power.
Source: tolonews.com
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-186429
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Women Group Made To Apologise For
Performing Yoga At Taj Mahal
11th December 2023
Marziya Sharif
Agra: A group of five women were made to
apologise for performing yoga on the red sandstone platform of the Taj Mahal
and also for making a video of the same in violation of rules.
The incident took place on Sunday.
While four women performed
‘suryanamaskar’ on the platform, the fifth was making the video.
“We came to know about the yoga being
performed on red sandstone platform on Sunday by a group of women, four of them
from Agra and one from Aligarh,” said Prince Vajpayee, senior assistant
conservator at Taj Mahal for Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Agra office.
“On being questioned, these five women
expressed ignorance about the restriction over such activities related to
campaigning and promotion. We took a written apology from them and allowed them
to go,” he said.
When contacted, superintending
archaeologist for Agra Circle of ASI Raj Kumar Patel said it seemed the women
were preparing a reel for social media.
However, there was no information if
they were professional influencers or YouTubers, he said.
This comes close on the heels of an
incident a day earlier in which a man was seen performing “sheershasan”
(headstand) on the white marble platform around the main mausoleum of the Taj
Mahal.
A video of the incident had gone viral.
Expressing concern over such rule
violations, president of Approved Guides Welfare Association Deepak Daan while
stressing on need for CISF being more vigilant, said it was the responsibility
of everyone to check such incidents .
He asked guides of the association to
make videos and inform ASI of CISF officials if they came across such
incidents.
Source: siasat.com
https://www.siasat.com/women-group-made-to-apologise-for-performing-yoga-at-taj-mahal-2932098/
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Muslim personal law says women have
share in inheritance: Scholars
10 Dec 2023
Lucknow : Islamic scholars have said
that Muslim personal law mandates that women — mother, sister, wife, daughter,
granddaughter, great-granddaughter, stepsister, grandmother, and
great-grandmother — should get shares in inheritance as directed by the holy
Quran.
Islamic scholar Maulana Nasrullah Nadwi,
while speaking at a conference of Tafheem-e-Shariat (Understanding of
Shariyat), organised under the aegis of All India Muslim Personal Law Board
(AIMPLB) at Darul Uloom Farangi Mahal in Lucknow on Saturday evening, addressed
the issue of women’s role in the structure of the family.
Speaking on the subject of ‘Women’s
Share in Inheritance’, Maulana Mohammad Nasrullah Nadwi, who is also the
secretary of Darul Uloom Farangi Mahal, said, “Islam is the first religion
which has given women a share in the property of their parents, husband, and
son as per Shariah.
“Muslim personal law mandates that
shares in the inheritance be given to mother, sister, wife, daughter,
granddaughter, great-granddaughter, step-sister, grandmother and
great-grandmother, as instructed by Quran,” he informed.
Maulana Mohammad Omar Abidin Qasmi on
the subject of Khula Shariah Nukta Nazar, said, “Islamic Sharia has given the
right and authority to a woman to terminate the marriage through Khula if her
husband subjects her to oppression and deprives her of her rights.”
High Court advocate Sheikh Saud Raees
added, “It has been mentioned in the Shariat Application Act, 1937 that the
cases in which both the parties are Muslims and those cases relate to Nikah,
Khula, Faskh, Tafreek, Talaq, Iddat, Nafka, inheritance, will, Hiba, Vilayat,
Rizaat, Hazanat and Waqf, should be decided under Muslim personal law only.” —
IANS
Source: muslimmirror.com
https://muslimmirror.com/eng/muslim-personal-law-says-women-have-share-in-inheritance-scholars-2/
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Borno Muslim Women To Army: Compensate
Victims Of TudunBiri Bombing
10 Dec 2023
The amalgamation of Muslim women groups
in Borno State has called on the government to compensate the victims of the
military drone strike that killed over 100 Maulud celebrants in TudunBiri,
Kaduna State.
President of the group, HajiaAdama Muhammad,
who made the call at a press conference in Maiduguri on Sunday, described the
prevalence of bombings in the northern part of the country as an ‘unforgivable
crime’ against humanity.
“The fatal bombardment by the Nigerian
Army is such an unforgivable crime against humanity taking into cognizance the
prevalence of such killings mostly in Northern Nigeria.
“Worthy of note is the killing of over
200 people in Kala Balge LGA of Borno amongst others in Niger and Yobe states.
And, these killings had left behind hundreds of grieving families in a state of
fear, despair and insecurity among the people in addition to disrupting the
peaceful coexistence of different ethnic and religious groups,” she said.
The group, according to the chairperson,
demanded immediate investigation and disciplinary action against the
perpetrators of the dastardly act so as to serve as a deterrent to others.
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“As we strongly condemn this holocaust
done to our people, we also call on the President to implement the suggestion
of the findings of the panel of inquiry for onward payment of compensation to
families of the victims. We also solicit for the government to take full
responsibility for the medical bills of those injured until recovery and to
compensate them.
“Furthermore, we enjoin each and
everyone within and outside Kaduna State to exercise patience, calm down and be
law-abiding. To forestall the recurrence of such we advise all security
agencies and personnel to carefully verify suspected movements and gathering of
criminals before taking action.
“We also urge each and every Nigerian
citizen, to double our prayers for peace and unity to ease all hardships for a
better and prosperous nation,” the group added.
Source: dailytrust.com
https://dailytrust.com/borno-muslim-women-to-army-compensate-victims-of-tudun-biri-bombing/
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