Days after the Iranian authorities arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters on Sunday called for the government to release the campaigner and dozens of others arrested alongside her.

The 2023 Nobel Prize awardee was “violently detained" by security and police forces on Friday during a memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer recently found dead in his office, her Paris-based Narges foundation said.

Following the detainment, the Norwegian Nobel Committee issued a statement denouncing the “brutal arrest" of Mohammadi and other activists and called for her immediate release.

“The Norwegian Nobel Committee calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately clarify Mohammadi’s whereabouts, ensure her safety and integrity, and to release her without conditions

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