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  "ar": "نرجس محمدي ⁦(وُلدت في ٢١ نيسان ١٩٧٢ في زنجان)⁩ ناشطة حقوقية إيرانية وحائزة جائزة نوبل للسلام سنة ٢٠٢٣ «لكفاحها ضد اضطهاد النساء في إيران»؛ درست الفيزياء التطبيقية، وعملت في الصحافة وفي مركز المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان مع شيرين عبادي، واعتُقلت مرارًا وحُكم عليها بعقوبات طويلة، وقادت من السجن حملة ضد الحبس الانفرادي الذي سمته «التعذيب الأبيض».",
  "en": "Narges Mohammadi (born 21 April 1972 in Zanjan) is an Iranian human-rights activist awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize 'for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran'; trained in applied physics, she worked in journalism and at Shirin Ebadi's Defenders of Human Rights Center, has been arrested repeatedly and sentenced to long prison terms, and campaigns against the solitary confinement she named 'white torture'.",
  "ur": "نرگس محمدی ⁦(پیدائش 21 اپریل 1972، زنجان)⁩ ایرانی انسانی حقوق کارکن اور 2023 کے نوبل امن انعام کی یافتہ ہیں؛ انھوں نے اطلاقی طبیعیات پڑھی، صحافت اور شیرین عبادی کے انسانی حقوق مرکز میں کام کیا، باربار گرفتار ہو کر طویل سزائیں پائیں، اور قید تنہائی کے خلاف مہم چلائی جسے انھوں نے «سفید تشدد» کہا۔"
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   "note": "Born 21 April 1972 in Zanjan, attested by the English and Arabic articles and by Wikidata's birth statement, all three in agreement. The hijri year is a tabular derived conversion of the Gregorian date, which is why derived is true; the date falls inside 1392 AH.",
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    "note": "Mohammadi's own religious positions have shifted across her life and are contested, and no value is settled. As a student she co-founded a group that explored neo-Shariatism while advocating a secular democracy; her mature activism opposes the mandatory hijab and the theocratic order, and advocacy profiles frame that activism in religious and in secular terms in turn. None of this names a school or affiliation for the woman herself in two independent texts, and under the absolute doubt rule the readings are preserved here and the value is unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia article 'Narges Mohammadi' revision 1383194706 of 1 November 2026; Arabic Wikipedia article 'نرجس محمدي' revision 70111279 of 3 April 2025; Wikidata item Q4967771 revision 2563050854 of 31 October 2026 (all retrieved live in-session on 2 November 2026 via the MediaWiki API; the Wikidata revision re-asserted identical on a second query). All three sources agree on her birth on 21 April 1972 in Zanjan. The born_in edge targets place/zanjan, verified present on origin/main in-session. No record or draft stub for her existed on main (checked against origin/main on 2 November 2026 by slug, name fragments and QID). The queue's 1972 birth year is correct.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "نرجس محمدي ⁦(وُلدت سنة 1972)⁩ ناشطة حقوقية إيرانية وحائزة جائزة نوبل للسلام، نالت جائزة 2023 وهي في السجن «لكفاحها ضد اضطهاد النساء في إيران ونضالها لتعزيز حقوق الإنسان والحرية للجميع» {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}. وبين 1998 وتشرين الأول 2023 اعتُقلت ثلاث عشرة مرة وحُكم عليها بما مجموعه واحد وثلاثون عامًا من السجن و154 جلدة {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياتها",
     "markdown": "وُلدت محمدي في 21 نيسان 1972 في زنجان في أسرة إيرانية أذربيجانية، ونالت درجة في الفيزياء التطبيقية من جامعة قزوين الدولية، حيث شاركت في تأسيس مجموعة طلابية بحثت في الشريعة الجديدة ودعت إلى ديمقراطية علمانية {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}. بدأت الصحافة سنة 1996 كاتبة في حقوق النساء والإنسان، وانضمت إلى مركز المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان الذي أسسته شيرين عبادي فأصبحت نائبًا لها ورئيسة لجنة حقوق المرأة فيه {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعمالها",
     "markdown": "أسست محمدي مركز مواطنة النساء وحملة «ليغام» للإلغاء التدريجي لعقوبة الإعدام، ووثقت إساءة معاملة السجينات في كتابها «التعذيب الأبيض» (2022) {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}. وسُجنت مرارًا في سجن إيفين، فكتبت من الداخل عن أحوال المعتقلات أثناء احتجاجات مهسا أميني، وقادت حملة ضد الحبس الانفرادي والحجاب الإلزامي {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}. قُرئ خطاب قبولها لجائزة نوبل في أوسلو نيابة عنها بلسان توأميها علي وكيانا رحماني {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}. مواقفها الدينية الذاتية تبدلت عبر حياتها وهي موضع خلاف في المصادر، فلا يُحسم لها انتماء في هذا السجل {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar} {cite:wikidata-narges-mohammadi}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-narges-mohammadi}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Narges Mohammadi (born 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded the 2023 prize while in prison 'for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all' {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}. Between 1998 and October 2023 she was arrested thirteen times and sentenced to a total of thirty-one years in prison and 154 lashes {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Mohammadi was born on 21 April 1972 in Zanjan to an Iranian Azerbaijani family and took a degree in applied physics at Qazvin International University, where she co-founded a student group that explored neo-Shariatism and advocated a secular democracy {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}. She began journalism in 1996, writing on women's and human rights, and joined the Defenders of Human Rights Center founded by Shirin Ebadi, becoming its deputy and head of its women's rights committee {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Work",
     "markdown": "Mohammadi founded the Women's Citizenship Center and the Legam campaign for step-by-step abolition of the death penalty, and documented the abuse of women prisoners in her 2022 book White Torture {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}. Repeatedly imprisoned in Evin Prison, she reported from inside on the condition of women detainees during the Mahsa Amini protests and has campaigned against solitary confinement and the mandatory hijab {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}. Her Nobel acceptance speech was read in Oslo by her twin children, Ali and Kiana Rahmani {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}. Her own religious positions have shifted and are contested in the sources, and no affiliation is settled for her in this record {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar} {cite:wikidata-narges-mohammadi}."
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    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-narges-mohammadi}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نرگس محمدی (پیدائش 1972) ایرانی انسانی حقوق کارکن اور نوبل امن انعام یافتہ ہیں؛ 2023 کا انعام انھیں قید کے دوران «ایران میں خواتین پر جبر کے خلاف جدوجہد» پر ملا {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}۔ 1998 سے 2023 کے درمیان وہ تیرہ بار گرفتار ہوئیں اور اکتیس برس قید و 154 کوڑوں کی سزائیں پائیں {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی و کام",
     "markdown": "محمدی 21 اپریل 1972 کو زنجان میں پیدا ہوئیں، اطلاقی طبیعیات کی ڈگری پائی، اور یونیورسٹی میں ایک طالب علم گروپ کی شریک بانی رہیں جو نئی شریعت کی بحث اور سیکولر جمہوریت کی وکالت کرتا تھا {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}۔ انھوں نے صحافت اور شیرین عبادی کے انسانی حقوق مرکز میں کام کیا، موت کی سزا کے خاتمے کی مہم چلائی، اور «سفید تشدد» میں خواتین قیدیوں پر مظالم درج کیے {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}۔ ان کے اپنے دینی موقف زندگی بھر بدلتے اور متنازع رہے ہیں، اس لیے اس ریکارڈ میں ان کا کوئی مذہبی انتماء طے نہیں کیا گیا {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en} {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar} {cite:wikidata-narges-mohammadi}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-narges-mohammadi-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-narges-mohammadi}"
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