Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred from prison to hospital. Her foundation announced this on Friday evening. The health of 54-year-old Mohammadi has deteriorated sharply and she is said to have had a heart attack.
Luka Geets
Journalist at HLN
Source: Belga
Narges Mohammadi has been held in Zanjan prison in northern Iran since December last year. According to her foundation, which issued a press release on Friday evening, she lost consciousness twice and also had a heart attack.
Her family, quoted in the press release, regrets that Mohammadi is only now receiving medical care after “140 days of confinement that poses a direct threat to her right to live.”
Mohammadi’s loved ones have been demanding her release for weeks due to her health condition. The woman is said to have lost about 20 kilograms.
Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her fight against the oppression of women and for human rights in Iran. In December, she was arrested after criticizing Iranian religious authorities during a funeral ceremony in Mashhad, the country’s east.
In February she was sentenced to prison. Since then she has been locked up in Zanjan and has very limited contact with her family.
