Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has gone on hunger strike, her family says | News Channel 3-12

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : CNN spoke recently with Mohammadi's husband and son, living in exile in France, who expressed their pride in her "endless energy for freedom and human rights" in Iran.
41% : The 51-year-old rights activist was awarded the Nobel on October 6 for "her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all."
35% : Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday in protest over what she said was the jail's refusal to provide her with medical treatment, according to a family statement provided to CNN.
32% : In August she was sentenced to an additional year in jail for her continued activism inside prison after she gave a media interview and a statement about sexual assaults in jail, which she says have "significantly increased" since the protests swept Iran last year, leading her to describe the abuse as now "systematic.

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