Concern for jailed Iranian Nobel laureate as brother fears she is dying
Her family said the 54-year-old had been taken from prison to a local hospital after a sharp deterioration in her health.
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Iran Nobel laureate taken to hospital after ‘violent arrest’
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was taken to hospital after being beaten when she was arrested last week, her family says. The 53-year-old human rights activist told them in a phone call on Sunday that she was brought to an emergency department twice after being “attacked by plain clothed agents with severe and…
Belarus releases 123 prisoners including Nobel prize laureate Bialiatski in exchange for U.S. sanctions relief
Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison, Pavel Sapelka, human rights advocate with the Viasna rights group, confirmed to the AP. Their release comes as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko seeks to improve relations with Washington. The U.S. earlier on Saturday announced lifting sanctions on…
Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado will not attend ceremony, organizers say
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, will not attend the ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said, adding that he did not know where she was. Machado was set to receive the award in the Norwegian capital at 1 p.m….