Nobel da Paz Atrás das Grades: Leitura em Inglês (3 níveis)

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Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday. She is 51 years old. She has fought for human rights in Iran for most of her life. She is against mandatory veiling and the death penalty. The police arrested her many times. Her husband and two children now live in France. She has not seen them for eight years.

But Narges is not the first person to win this prize in prison. Here are four other winners in similar situations.

Carl von Ossietzky (Germany, 1935)

Carl was a journalist and a pacifist. He won the prize inside a Nazi concentration camp. Hitler was very angry. He said no German could accept a Nobel Prize. A dishonest lawyer took Carl's prize money. Carl died in prison in 1938.

Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar, 1991)

She won the prize for her peaceful fight for democracy and human rights. At the time, she was under house arrest. The army let her travel to Oslo, but she stayed in Myanmar. She was afraid she could not come back. Later, people criticized her for the Rohingya crisis.

Liu Xiaobo (China, 2010)

Liu was a Chinese activist. He fought for human rights and democracy. The government sent him to prison for eleven years. He could not go to the ceremony. His family could not go either. So the prize sat on an empty chair. He died in 2017 in prison.

Ales Bialiatski (Belarus, 2022)

Ales won the prize for the "right to criticize power". The police arrested him for "tax fraud". Many people think this was punishment from the president. He is now in prison for ten years. His wife went to the ceremony for him.

These brave people show us the cost of fighting for justice. They are symbols of courage and hope.