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Mohammadi is serving multiple sentences in Tehran's notorious
Evin prison on charges including spreading propaganda against
the Islamic Republic.
"Imprisonment, psychological torture, constant solitary
confinement, sentence after sentence; that hasn't and is not
going to stop me," she wrote, according to SVT.
"I am going to stand up for freedom and equality even if it
costs me my life."
SVT said the letter was written in reply to questions that had
been smuggled into the prison via intermediaries, but did not
reveal details of how the exchange had taken place.
Mohammadi began a hunger strike in November to protest against
what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to
medical care.
In the brief comments published by SVT, which gave no
information about her health, Mohammadi said she missed her
children, Kiana and Ali, the most.
"Particularly these days, when all the new prisoners talk about
the interviews the two have done....It is more than eight years
since I saw them," she wrote.
Kiana told SVT that the family had not had any direct contact
with Mohammadi for a year and nine months.
"Before that we would occasionally speak on the telephone, but
that has stopped," the 17 year-old said.
This year's Nobel festivities will take place on Dec. 10 in Oslo
and Stockholm. Mohammadi will be represented by her children,
Ali and Kiana Rahman, according the Nobel Foundation.
The two will receive Mohammadi's diploma and gold medal at
Oslo's City Hall and give the Nobel Prize lecture on behalf of
their mother.
(Reporting by Simon Johnson, editing by Terje Solsvik and Chizu
Nomiyama)
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