Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalized after a health crisis in prison
BEIRUT — Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been urgently moved from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a significant deterioration in her health, according to her foundation on Friday.
The Narges Mohammadi Foundation reported that the Nobel laureate experienced two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.
Earlier in the day, Mohammadi fainted twice in Zanjan prison in northwestern Iran. Her lawyers, who visited her a few days after the incident, revealed that she had likely suffered a heart attack in late March. At the time, she was weak, underweight, and required assistance to walk.
The foundation stated that the hospital transfer was necessary due to 140 days of systematic medical neglect since her arrest on Dec. 12.
Mohammadi’s family had been advocating for her transfer to better medical facilities for weeks. The foundation, citing her family, expressed concerns that the transfer to a Zanjan hospital on Friday might be too late to address her critical needs.
On March 24, Mohammadi was found unconscious by her fellow inmates, who later informed her lawyers. Following an examination at the prison clinic, a doctor suspected that she had suffered a heart attack. She had been experiencing chest pain and breathing difficulties since then.
Her legal representative in France, Chirinne Ardakani, revealed that Mohammadi was denied transfer to the hospital or access to her cardiologist. A prison official was present during the brief visit by Mohammadi’s lawyers.
