Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is in critical condition after suffering a heart attack, her brother said on Wednesday. the DPA agency informed.
- Prisoner Narges Mohammadíová is in a critical state of health after a heart attack.
- Brother Hamíd Rezá Mohammadí said that after the heart attack she became significantly weaker and lost weight.
- The family has serious concerns because the prison’s medical care is said to be inadequate.
- Narges Mohammadíová won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for the defense of women.
- In February, an Iranian court again sentenced her to years in prison and a travel ban.
Hamíd Rezá Mohammadí wrote in a post on the X network that his sister, after the heart attack she suffered at the end of March, became significantly weaker and lost a lot of weight, which causes serious concern in the family. According to him, medical care in the prison is insufficient, which activists have pointed out in the past.
Mohammadiová, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her activity against the oppression of women and against the death penalty in Iran, she is imprisoned in a prison in the city of Zanjan. According to the lawyer, at the beginning of February, the court sentenced her again to several years of imprisonment and she is also threatened with a two-year ban on leaving the country.
