Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize winner says Iranian people will prevail against rulers

During widespread protests that were put down with deadly force, women, especially schoolgirls, defied rules requiring them to cover their hair and wear baggy clothing by taking off and burning their hijabs

Iran: Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner goes on hunger strike to protest hijab law

Despite being imprisoned for years and being arrested multiple times by Iranian authorities, Mohammadi has continued her activism. Since the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody last year, she has continued to be a leading figure in the nationwide women-led protests

Belarus puts Nobel Peace Prize winner in solitary confinement

Massive protests against a 2020 election that the opposition and many in the West perceived as a sham that extended authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's rule prompted the arrests of Bialiatski and his colleagues

'Biased and political move': Iran denounces Nobel Committee's decision to award Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement, 'We note that the Nobel Peace Committee awarded the Peace Prize to a person who was convicted of repeated violations of laws and criminal acts'

Who is Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, winner of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize?

Narges Mohammadi was born on 21 April, 1972, in Iran’s Zanjan. Arrested 13 times, the 51-year-old has spent years behind bars for advocating the rights of women and campaigning against the death penalty, solitary confinement and the use of sexual violence on incarcerated prisoners

Jailed Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi awarded 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Mohammadi, who is currently in prison, has been awarded the prestigious prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all

Why Mahatma Gandhi was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Despite being nominated five times, Mahatma Gandhi was never honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize for one reason or the other. Although the Norwegian Nobel Committee considered awarding him posthumously in 1948, the idea did not come to fruition. Here’s why

Russia declares Nobel Peace Prize-winning editor Dmitry Muratov to be a foreign agent

Muratov was chief editor of Novaya Gazeta, which was widely respected abroad for its investigative reporting and was frequently critical of the Kremlin. Muratov was a co-laureate of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Novaya Gazeta has suspended publication till the war in Ukraine ends

Indian Ink | Is it India’s moment? Yes, a Nobel for Narendra Modi will prove it

Though the statement attributed to Asle Toje, Deputy Leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, that Prime Minister Modi was the strongest contender for the Nobel Peace Prize, has been shown to be fake, this does not mean that the idea will go away

Belarus court sentences Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison

Bialiatski, a pro-democracy activist and founder of the Viasna human rights group which provided legal and financial help to protesters during a 2020 wave of unrest in Belarus, was convicted on charges of financing those protests as well as for evading taxes