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Iran’s Jailed Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Rushed to Cardiac Unit After Health Collapse

The crisis raises fresh pressure on Iran to provide independent specialist care for a high-profile political prisoner.

A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. NTB/Javad Parsa via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE - Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi attends a meeting on women's rights in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Overview

  • Narges Mohammadi was moved to a hospital cardiac unit in Zanjan on Friday after two fainting episodes and a severe cardiac crisis.
  • Prison doctors say her condition cannot be managed on-site, citing dangerous blood-pressure swings that require her specialist team in Tehran.
  • A Zanjan medical official urged a one-month pause to her sentence for treatment, after which the prosecutor forwarded the case to Tehran.
  • Lawyers report a likely heart attack in late March after inmates found her unconscious on March 24 inside the prison.
  • The Nobel Committee has condemned what it calls life-threatening mistreatment, and her family alleges she was beaten during her December arrest.