Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Hospitalized After Cardiac Crisis
Dubai— Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was transferred to a hospital in Iran after suffering what her family foundation described as a severe deterioration in health, including a cardiac crisis and repeated loss of consciousness, raising renewed concern over the condition of the imprisoned activist.
The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said on Friday that Mohammadi was urgently moved to a hospital in Zanjan after prison doctors concluded her condition could no longer be managed inside the detention facility.
According to the foundation, the activist suffered two episodes of complete loss of consciousness, severe nausea, dangerously high blood pressure and repeated vomiting before fainting on Friday morning and being taken to the prison medical unit for emergency intravenous treatment.
The statement described the hospital transfer as a “desperate, last-minute” measure and warned it could come too late to address her critical health condition. Reuters could not immediately independently verify the claims.Mohammadi, in her 50s, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize while serving a prison sentence for her activism on women’s rights, freedom of expression and opposition to the death penalty in Iran.
She has become one of the country’s most prominent human rights campaigners and a leading voice against state repression.The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Thursday there was growing concern over her worsening condition after reports that she had suffered a heart attack in prison.
Mohammadi has undergone three angioplasty procedures, according to her family, and faces what they described as a “direct and immediate” threat to her life if she does not receive specialist medical treatment in Tehran.Her family called for all charges against her to be dropped immediately and for the annulment of prison sentences linked to what they described as her peaceful human rights work.
The activist was sentenced earlier this year to an additional seven-and-a-half years in prison, according to the foundation. In February, the Nobel Committee urged Iranian authorities to release her without delay.She was arrested in December after publicly condemning the death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi.
Iranian prosecutor Hasan Hematifar said at the time that Mohammadi made provocative remarks during Alikordi’s memorial ceremony in Mashhad and encouraged attendees to chant what authorities called norm-breaking slogans and disturb public order.Iranian authorities have not immediately commented on Friday’s hospitalization.
Mohammadi has spent years in and out of prison over charges related to national security and anti-state propaganda, accusations rights groups say are frequently used against dissidents and civil society activists in Iran.Her case has drawn sustained international attention, particularly since nationwide protests over women’s rights and political freedoms intensified scrutiny of Iran’s treatment of activists, journalists and political prisoners.
