Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released on bail in Iran. She has been transferred to Tehran for treatment.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released on bail from prison in northern Iran and taken to Tehran for treatment. There, her health will be managed by her own medical team, according to the French press.
After ten days of hospitalization in the city of Zanjan, where the activist was serving her sentence, she "received temporary release from her sentence on a large bail." Narges Mohammadi is now in a hospital in Tehran, where she will undergo treatment "under the supervision of her own medical team," her associates clarified.
Supporters of Mohammadi claim that the political activist reportedly suffered two heart attacks in prison, and her life is at risk. Her husband insists that the temporary transfer to the hospital is insufficient; his wife should not return to conditions that have jeopardized her health (the 54-year-old woman has 18 years left to serve in prison).
Mohammadi is a human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2023 by the Nobel Committee "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her struggle for the promotion of human rights and freedom for all" (the award was received by her children, who live in Paris, as she was in prison). Educated as a physicist and having worked as an engineer in a construction company, she was a columnist in the independent press and a spokesperson for a human rights center.
She has been arrested multiple times, convicted five times, and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. She was released in 2020 and was arrested again in 2021. Her sentence was increased for giving interviews while in custody and for appeals to the UN.
Narges Mohammadi's story has once again drawn the attention of the international community to the situation of political prisoners and human rights defenders in Iran, writes bb.lv. Supporters of the activist continue to demand her full release, fearing that a return to prison could ultimately undermine her health.
