Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi remains in detention after a violent arrest at a memorial ceremony in Mashhad, where security forces beat mourners and detained dozens. Mohammadi has been hospitalized twice for serious head and neck injuries caused by baton blows and has since been returned to custody despite serious pre-existing health conditions. Authorities have opened a new security case against her, including an accusation of “cooperation with Israel,” raising urgent concerns about her health, safety, and access to medical care.
(public domain picture of Alfred Nobel) María Corina Machado is celebrated as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and symbol of resistance to Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian rule. Yet her closest international alliances lie not with centrist democrats, but with a hard transnational right stretching from Washington to Madrid, Rome and Jerusalem. Mimeta examines how this shapes the meaning of “freedom” in and beyond Venezuela.
As President Daniel Noboa attends the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Ecuador’s cultural sector faces mounting pressure at home. From the cancellation of a political caricature exhibition in Quito to direct threats against an installation at the Bienal de Cuenca, artists are confronting censorship, intimidation and growing self-censorship. These cases unfold amid protest repression, media shutdowns and shrinking civic space.
