“The last time I heard my mother’s voice was the night before December 12, when she was arrested for the fourteenth time,” says Narges Mohammadi’s daughter. The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, now 54, has dedicated her entire life to defending human rights in Iran. In total, she has spent almost 10 years in prison, interspersed with brief periods of freedom. Years that have taken a heavy toll on her personal health. Today, she lies unconscious in a bed in the coronary care unit of a hospital in Zanjan province, her home region, and the same one where the prison is located in which she has spent the last 140 days.

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The death of Amal Khalil, 43, a Lebanese reporter for the media outlet Al Akhbar, brings up to nine the number of journalists killed by the Israeli army in seven weeks of offensive in Lebanon, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The reporter’s killing occurred even though a ceasefire, which called for a 10-day cessation of hostilities by Israeli troops in Lebanon, was in effect since Thursday.

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