Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a 'catastrophic deterioration' of her health. The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said the Nobel Prize laureate had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.
She was believed to have suffered a heart attack in late March, according to her lawyers who visited her a few days after the incident. At the time, she appeared pale, underweight and needed a nurse to help her walk.
The hospital transfer comes 'after 140 days of systematic medical neglect,' since her arrest on Dec. 12, the foundation said.
Mohammadi's family had advocated for her transfer to adequate medical facilities for weeks. Her transfer Friday to a hospital in Zanjan was 'a desperate, 'last-minute' action that may be too late to address her critical needs.'
Mohammadi, 53, a rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison, was arrested in December during a visit to the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad and sentenced to seven more years in prison.
