Tre får Palmepris för kamp för kvinnors frihet
Årets Olof Palmepris tilldelas kvinnorättskämparna Marta Chumalo (Ukraina), Eren Keskin (Turkiet) och Narges Mohammadi (Iran).
I motiveringen från Palmefonden står att kvinnorna med sina liv och handlingar inspirerat andra och att de genom sitt engagemang banat väg för ”de modiga unga kvinnor och män som nu tar kampen vidare för allas våra grundläggande mänskliga rättigheter”.
Marta Chumalo är psykolog och har länge jobbat med att stärka kvinnor som utsatts för våld. Sedan invasionen av Ukraina har hon informerat om kriget och dess konsekvenser, skriver TT. Eren Keskin är människorättsadvokat och Narges Mohammadi är journalist som länge varit en central figur i kampen för kvinnors rättigheter i Iran.
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Eren Keskin
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Eren Keskin (born April 24, 1959 in Bursa, Turkey) is a Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist in Turkey. She is the vice-president of the Turkish Human Rights Association (İHD) and a former president of its Istanbul branch. She co-founded the project "Legal Aid For Women Who Were Raped Or Otherwise Sexually Abused by National Security Forces”, to expose abuses happening to women in Turkish prisons. She has been arrested, imprisoned, and the object of numerous lawsuits in relation to her human rights activities.
In 1995 she was imprisoned for her activities and was adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. In 2002 she was accused by Turkey's State Security of "aiding and abetting" the PKK because of her advocacy for Kurds to use their native language in Turkey. In March 2006 a Turkish court sentenced her to 10 months’ imprisonment for insulting the country's military. The sentence was then converted to a fine of 6000 New Turkish Liras, which Keskin refused to pay. From 2013 to 2016 Keskin was the editor in chief of the newspaper Özgür Gündem has been sentenced to a total of 7 years and 6 months together. In March 2018 she has been sentenced to 5 years and 3 months imprisonment for insulting the president and another 2 years and 3 months for "degrading Turkishness, the Republic, institutions and organs of the state" according to the Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.On 3 December 2021, Evrensel reported Keskin's home was raided by Turkish police.The raid was conducted to summon Keskin to account for a speech she delivered in Turkey’s southeastern Dersim province in 2019.
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Narges Mohammadi
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Narges Mohammadi (Persian: نرگس محمدی; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. In May 2016, she was sentenced in Tehran to 16 years' imprisonment for establishing and running "a human rights movement that campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty". In 2022, she was named in the BBC 100 Women list.
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