Awards serve as bookends to period in which Tehran and Washington have seesawed between confrontation and possible reconciliation

Foreign ministry calls award for Narges Mohammadi 'biased and political,' Iranian media accuses her of collaborating with 'terrorist groups'

Previous imprisoned winners include a pacifist held in a Nazi concentration camp, a Chinese dissident and a Belarusian anti-regime rights campaigner

Despite having no prospect of release and enduring pain of separation from her family, Narges Mohammadi insists protest movement that erupted last year against regime still alive

Mohammadi honored 'for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all'

Belarusian dissident Ales Bialiatski, Russian organization Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties honored in Oslo for campaign against authoritarianism

Memorial, one of the leading Russian civil advocates, will have Moscow headquarters seized, with prosecutors accusing it of 'rehabilitating Nazi criminals'

Winners of prestigious award named as Ales Bialiatski, who is jailed in Belarus, as well as the Russian organization Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties

Dmitry Muratov won peace prize in 2021 amid Kremlin crackdown on free press; unknown buyer shatters previous record of $4.76 million for a Nobel

Newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov asks auction houses to sell the medal in order to assist 'peaceful refugees and wounded and sick children who need emergency treatment'