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Jailed Iranian Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi has ended her hunger strike on Thursday having successfully transferred to a hospital without wearing the obligatory hijab. A message posted on her social media stated that she affirms she will not wear the compulsory hijab “Until the abolition of the ‘forced hijab,’ I will continue to walk like this on the streets”.
Having been arrested for her campaigns of human rights activism over the past two decades, access to basic medical attention was just the latest plight that Mohammadi endured. In protest of this lack of health care for her, and for all other inmates, Narges initially resolved to take to a hunger strike as of Monday.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Narges in October for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran” shook the world and even her mailing of letters affirming her suffering on hunger strike elicited further attention.
Friends and others who came to rally behind her found themselves intimidated and harassed and still the chains holding those in care of the Islamic Republic remained bold. It was not until Wednesday where she received medical treatment at the hands of attending doctors without the said mandatory head covering that her strike ended.
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