Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, on Monday, urged the international community to act to end the “oppression” of women in Iran, two years after the start of a women-led protest movement.

“I call on international institutions and people around the world… to take active action,” she said in a letter written in Tehran’s Evin prison on Saturday and published by her foundation on Monday.

“I urge the United Nations to end its silence and inaction in the face of the devastating oppression and discrimination by theocratic and authoritarian governments against women by criminalising gender apartheid,” she said.

The “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests were sparked by the death in custody of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd called Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, after she was arrested for allegedly breaching the country’s strict dress code for her gender

Mohammadi – who has campaigned against the compulsory wearing of the headscarf for women and the death penalty in Iran — has been in Tehran’s Evin prison since November 2021.

She has spent much of the past decade in and out of jail.

On Sunday she was one of 34 women in the Evin prison to stage a 24-hour symbolic hunger strike on the second anniversary of the protest movement “in solidarity with the protesting people of Iran, against the government’s oppressive policies”, her foundation said.

Mohammadi’s children received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in 2023 while she was incarcerated.