Ms Mohammadi - who is serving a 10-year jail term in Tehran - won this year’s prize for her work fighting against the oppression of women in Iran.
In a speech smuggled out of Iran and delivered by her 17-year-old children Kiana and Ali Rahmani in French, Ms Mohammadi said: “I write this message from behind the high, cold walls of a prison.”
She praised young Iranians who she said have “transformed the streets and public spaces into a place of widespread civil resistance” - referring to the protests that began last year following the death of Mahsa Amini.
The twins collected the prize - which includes a cheque for 11 million Swedish crowns (about £837,000, or $1m) - at a ceremony in Oslo’s City Hall attended by several hundred guests.
On Saturday, Ms Mohammadi’s husband, Mr Rahmani, told BBC Hardtalk that his wife had once written a letter to their children expressing the hope “they would forgive her” for not being able to “be a mother to them”.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, whose work demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to capture and study rapid processes inside atoms.
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