Hin need of urgent treatment, but the Iranian prison authorities who are arbitrarily detaining her in Tehran the Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2023are deliberately denying her adequate healthcare.
Narges Mohammadi denied health care
The woman, in fact, she would need to be transferred to hospital, which she was prevented from doing due to her decision not to wear the hijab. But not only for this: the retaliation, in fact, also arises for his public campaigns, from that against the use of solitary confinement in prisons to that of having sought responsibility for the hundreds of illegal killings that occurred during the protests.
The activist symbol of the “Woman, life, freedom” movement
The complaint of this latest abuse of the authorities came from the family of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who in a statement added that Mohammadi’s health is at risk as she suffers from heart and lung problems.
Arrested 13 times, convicted five times, always for “alleged crimes” that derive exclusively from her work for human rights, last October Mohammadi was awarded «for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran» began with the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old arrested for wearing her veil incorrectly. The activist it is also the symbol of the “Woman, life, freedom” movement which pushed many women to film themselves symbolically cutting a lock of hair, to declare their challenge to the Iranian authorities.
Mohammadi was awarded last October “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran”. (Photo by arifoto UG/picture alliance via Getty Images)
The ferocious response of the Iranian authorities
The response to which, of course, was ferocious. The rebellion was crushed in violence, with the killing of hundreds of protesters, mostly women. There were thousands of illegal arrests, over 22 thousand, accompanied by torture, rape and intimidation and, in some cases, irregular trials and death sentences.
Narges Mohammadi does not give up her fight
And even when it comes to health, Mohammadi does not give up his fight. He had, in fact, announced that under no circumstances would she wear the hijab, not even to go to the hospital and the prison director said that, according to the orders of higher authorities, moving out of prison without a veil is prohibited.
A medical team went to the prison to examine the woman and the CT scan showed two veins with severe blockages and high pulmonary pressure. In a message sent after receiving the Nobel Prize, the activist expressed gratitude for her recognition. And, once again he called on the Iranian people “to final victory” because even if “it won’t be easy to achieve, it is still certain”.
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