Nobel Peace Prize laureate Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi’s daughter Kiana Rahmani, son Ali Rahmani, and chairman of the Nobel Committee Norwegian Berit Reiss Andersen attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo Metropolis Corridor on December 10, 2023 in Oslo, Norway.
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The Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who’s at present serving an 18-year jail sentence in Iran, has been hospitalized in essential situation after collapsing and dropping consciousness in jail. The 54-year-old Mohammadi, who suffers from persistent coronary heart and different well being points, is experiencing a “catastrophic deterioration” in her well being, in response to a press release from her basis launched Friday.
Mohammadi was moved from jail to intensive care Friday at a hospital within the metropolis of Zanjan, a provincial capital northwest of Tehran. In keeping with her basis’s assertion, her household and lawyer have requested that she be transferred to specialist care in Tehran upon her medical crew’s recommendation, however authorities have refused to permit her to be moved. In March, she suffered a coronary heart assault and misplaced consciousness in jail, however in response to her husband, authorities authorities declined to take her to any hospital for therapy.
In December 2024, she had been granted a medical furlough from jail as a result of her ongoing poor well being. Whereas nonetheless on furlough in December 2025, she spoke out in opposition to the Iranian regime at a funeral of a fellow activist, and was arrested once more. Mohammadi was then sentenced to 10 years in jail on expenses of threatening nationwide safety. In February, she was sentenced to a further seven and a half years.
Mohammadi acquired the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her work on ladies’s rights, her activism in opposition to the Iranian authorities’s use of torture and sexual violence, and for her advocacy to abolish the dying penalty in Iran. At the moment, she had already been arrested 13 instances, convicted 5 instances, and sentenced to a complete of 31 years in jail and 154 lashes.
Whereas she was imprisoned in essentially the most infamous jail in Iran, Tehran’s Evin Jail, she turned one of many foremost activists in Iran’s “Lady, Life, Freedom” motion.
Of their 2025 e book For the Solar After Lengthy Nights: The Story of Iran’s Girls-Led Rebellion, journalists Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy recount considered one of Mohammadi’s latest fights from jail, wherein she refused to put on the necessary hijab whereas she was being transferred from jail to a hospital to be handled for her ongoing illnesses. “The judiciary system finally needed to give in after she and a number of other feminine prisoners went on a starvation strike for 3 days. Solely then did she go to the hospital to have coronary heart surgical procedure,” Jamalpour and Tabrizy write.
In the course of the ongoing battle with the U.S. and Israel, Iran has continued to repress dissidents. In keeping with a press release launched Thursday by the Middle for Human Rights in Iran, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group primarily based in New York, the Iranian authorities has hanged not less than 22 political prisoners, together with three minors, inside the previous six weeks. Most of those executions have been carried out secretly and with out discover to the prisoners’ households or legal professionals, in response to the CHRI.
