Exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center; Norwegian Students Learn About Narges Mohammadi's Life and Women's Struggles in Iran

The Instagram page attributed to Narges Mohammadi reported on Wednesday, March 6, that an exhibition of cartoons depicting the life of Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and the struggles of women in Iran, has opened at the "Nobel Peace Center" in Oslo, Norway's capital, in honor of International Women's Day on March 8. According to the report, the exhibition is part of the educational program of the Nobel Peace Institute for students in Norway. Every year, Norwegian students of various ages study about the "Nobel Peace Prize" winner of that year through updated lessons integrated into the educational system. The Instagram page attributed to Narges Mohammadi states that special lessons for Norwegian schools are made available for free to all teachers worldwide through the "Nobel Peace Institute's website." Last year, after the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Norwegian teenagers were asked to illustrate "the life and struggles of Narges Mohammadi and women in Iran," and on Thursday, March 8, in celebration of International Women's Day, prizes will be awarded to three selected works. Simultaneously, the exhibition of cartoons by Narges Mohammadi, designed and executed by Norwegian professional cartoonist Nora Dasens, was also unveiled. Senator Ben Cardin, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote about Narges Mohammadi on the social media platform "X" in January: "Narges Mohammadi has inspired men and women in Iran and around the world in the fight for human rights for decades." Ms. Mohammadi, spokesperson for the Human Rights Defenders Center and born in 1972 in Zanjan, won the Nobel Peace Prize last year while imprisoned. Over the past three decades, since 1991, she has been arrested and imprisoned multiple times, and in her latest legal case, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "propaganda against the regime." Ms. Mohammadi is currently in Evin Prison in Tehran. Narges Mohammadi's note in Le Monde: "Solitary confinement is the mother of executions in Iran." Narges Mohammadi on the day of her father's funeral: "Forgive me, I bid you farewell from behind prison bars." Narges Mohammadi joined the campaign to boycott elections: "The Islamic Republic deserves national boycott and global humiliation." Narges Mohammadi's initiative; a group of UN experts called for criminalizing "gender apartheid." Narges Mohammadi: "We will continue the struggle for the transition from the authoritarian religious regime and the misogynistic Islamic Republic."