Iran’s Jailed Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Reported in Critical Cardiac Care

Overview

• The family-run Narges Mohammadi Foundation says she remains in a cardiac-care unit in the city of Zanjan with unstable blood pressure and only oxygen and stabilization being provided.
• She was moved from prison to the hospital after what the foundation called a catastrophic decline that included two episodes of loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.
• Relatives say she likely suffered a heart attack at the end of March, and they argue that effective treatment requires moving her to her longtime medical team in Tehran.
• The latest details come from the family foundation, and the articles report no independent confirmation from Iranian state health or judicial authorities.
• Mohammadi won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for opposing the death penalty and gender repression, was arrested in December after remarks at a memorial for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, and received a new seven-and-a-half-year sentence in February that drew a release plea from the Nobel Committee.