Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was in an unstable condition in an Iranian hospital on Saturday after she was taken there from prison following a catastrophic deterioration of her health, a foundation run by her family said. The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awarded Mohammadi the 2023 prize, had expressed concern on Thursday that the condition of the Iranian human rights activist was worsening after she had suffered a heart attack in prison.
Mohammadi, in her 50s, won the prize while in prison for her campaign to advance women’s rights and abolish the death penalty in Iran.
Narges Mohammadi Transferred To Hospital
The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said in a statement on its website on Friday that she had been”urgently transferred to a hospital in Zanjan today following a catastrophic deterioration of her health, including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.”
This transfer was an “unavoidable necessity after prison doctors determined her condition could not be managed on-site,” it said.
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In an update on Saturday, the foundation said she remained in an unstable condition receiving oxygen. It called for her to be transferred to a hospital in Tehran for tests and specialised treatment.
The Islamic Republic’s treatment of Narges Mohammadi is cruelty plain and simple. A brave woman with a serious heart condition is being left to suffer behind bars. This is not justice—it is deliberate neglect. The authorities are responsible for her life. Save her: provide…
— Barry Rosen (@brosen1501) May 2, 2026
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Mohammadi was sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, the foundation said in February, weeks before the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran. The Nobel committee at the time called on Tehran to free her immediately.
She was arrested in December after denouncing the death of a lawyer, Khosrow Alikordi; prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters then she had made provocative remarks at Alikordi’s memorial ceremony.
Narges Mohammadi Suffering From High Blood Pressure, Severe Nausea
On Friday morning, Mohammadi fainted after days of dangerously high blood pressure and severe nausea, the foundation said. After multiple bouts of vomiting, she blacked out and was moved to the prison medical unit for emergency intravenous fluids.
Nobel Women’s Initiative Urgent Call for Medical Care for Narges Mohammadi
We, Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, express our deepest alarm at the critical health condition of our sister, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi, unjustly imprisoned…
— Narges Mohammadi | نرگس محمدی (@nargesfnd) May 2, 2026
The activist, who has undergone three angioplasty procedures, faces a “direct and immediate” threat to her right to life, her family said. “We call for all charges to be dropped immediately and for all sentences imposed for her peaceful human rights work to be unconditionally annulled.”
(With inputs from Reuters)
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