A Nobel Peace Prize Winner Was Refused Medical Care In Prison Because She Wouldn't Wear A Headscarf. Now, She's On A Hunger Strike.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Surprising FactWearing a hijab has been required by women in public spaces in Iran since shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
50% : Mohammadi has been an advocate for equality and women's rights since her days as a student in the 1990s and has been involved with the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran, founded by a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, since 2003.
44% : Mohammadi's daughter last week read a message her mother had smuggled out of jail, the first official reaction to her winning of the Nobel Peace Prize on October 6, in which she called the laws forcing women to wear a hijab "a means of control and repression" by the "authoritarian religious regime" of Iran, French newspaper Le Monde reported.
39% : Armita Geravand fell into a coma after she was reportedly beaten by government "morality" agents in Iran on October 1 for not wearing a headscarf on the subway.
38% : Nov 6, 2023,10:32am EST|ToplineThe woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her gender advocacy in Iran has started a hunger strike in prison, multiple outlets reported Monday, after she and other female inmates were blocked from receiving medical care over their refusal to wear a headscarf.
34% : Mohammadi has spoken against the forced wearing of headscarves in Iran, use of the death penalty, the use of torture and sexual violence against political prisoners and the government's policies of discrimination targeting women.
34% : Hengaw, an activist group, said Gerevand instead suffered a "severe physical assault" by government agents in Tehran but authorities have insisted she fainted and said her death was due to pre-existing medical conditions.
33% : Geravand Is 'Brain Dead' After Alleged Assault By Police Over HijabBy Mary Whitfill RoeloffsMORE FROM FORBESAnti-Hijab Protests Led By Women Spread Across Iran-Here's What You Need To KnowBy
28% : Women in Iran can face up to 10 years in prison for "inappropriate dress.

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