Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Beaten, Arrested at Memorial in Iran

• Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was "violently" arrested by Iranian security forces.
• She was detained along with at least eight other activists at a memorial for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi.
• Mohammadi, who was on temporary leave from prison, was reportedly beaten and dragged during the arrest.
• The memorial was for Alikordi, a lawyer who defended protest detainees, whose death is under suspicion.
• Mohammadi has spent much of the past decade in prison for her human rights activism and defiance of the Iranian regime.

Why It Matters: Iran's violent re-arrest of Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi shows its brutal repression of dissent.