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Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Launches Hunger Strike Over Iran Detention

Her action protests restricted communication as well as harsh detention conditions faced by political prisoners in Iran.

Overview

  • Her family’s Paris-based foundation says the strike began this week to challenge what it calls unlawful detention and dire prison conditions.
  • Her lawyer reports she is held in solitary confinement in Mashhad with no reliable means of contact, with her last family call on December 14.
  • She is seeking the right to make phone calls, meet lawyers in Iran, and receive visits, according to her legal team.
  • Mohammadi was detained on December 12 in Mashhad during a memorial for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, whose death activists have called suspicious.
  • The foundation warns her known heart problems, high blood pressure, and other ailments make the hunger strike especially dangerous; Iranian authorities have not publicly commented.