Narges Mohammadi Pays Her Respects to Prisoners at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, Iran

Narges Mohammadi Pays Her Respects to Prisoners at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, Iran on January 5, 2025

Narges Mohammadi has been in Mashhad, meeting with civil rights activists, friends, family, and supporters. Before leaving the city, she paid her respects to political prisoners, their families, and their struggles by standing in front of Vakilabad Prison. She sent a message of support, urging unity in the fight for the release of all political prisoners.

On Yalda Night 2024, Narges Mohammadi also paid tribute to prisoners at Zanjan Prison in Iran, standing in front of the prison and sending out a message of solidarity in their remembrance.

The full video of her message can be viewed here, and her complete statement can be read below:

“I feel as though a part of me has been left behind on the other side of these cold walls.
I have come to stand in front of the walls of Vakilabad Prison to honor each and every one of my brothers and sisters and to remember those who remain behind these walls.
We must work to turn ‘political prisoner’ into an issue against the Islamic Republic and demand the freedom of all political and ideological prisoners. Political prisoners must be freed.”

5th Jan 2025

نرگس محمدی در مقابل زندان وکیل آباد مشهد:
احساس می کنم بخشی از وجودم در آن سوی دیوارهای سرد جا مانده است.
برای ادای احترام به تک تک خواهران و برادرانم و به یاد عزیزانی که پشت این دیوار هستند، مقابل دیوار زندان وکیل آباد آمده ام.
باید تلاش کنیم «زندانی سیاسی» را به مسئله ای علیه جمهوری اسلامی تبدیل کرده و آزادی تمام زندانیان سیاسی و عقیدتی را مطالبه کنیم.

زندانی سیاسی آزاد باید گردد.