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Iran Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi released on bail for medical treatment

Iran Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi released on bail for medical treatment

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Iranian authorities on Sunday released Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi on bail following growing alarm over her health and she has already been transferred to Tehran for medical treatment, her supporters said. They had last week warned that Mohammadi, who won the 2023 prize in recognition of her decades of campaigning for human rights in Iran, was at risk of dying on prison after suffer two suspected heart attacks behind bars in Zanjan. Source link

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi transferred to a Tehran hospital, her foundation says : NPR

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi transferred to a Tehran hospital, her foundation says : NPR

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Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi in a hospital in Tehran, Iran on May 10, 2026. Narges Foundation Archive/via AP hide caption toggle caption Narges Foundation Archive/via AP BEIRUT — Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in prison, her foundation said Sunday. Her transfer comes after days of pleading by her family and others who described her condition as critical. Her foundation said she has been granted a prison sentence suspension on bail. It was not clear for how long her sentence is suspended, the foundation said. Mohammadi had been imprisoned since December in Zanjan prison. She lost consciousness twice and was transferred to a local hospital on May 1. A statement from her foundation, shared with The Associated Press, said the suspended sentence is not enough and that Mohammadi needs “permanent, specialized care.” The statement added that “we must ensure she never returns to prison to face the 18 years remaining on her sentence. Now is the time to …

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised

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Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to hospital after what her foundation described as a severe deterioration in her health. She reportedly fainted twice on Friday. The incident follows a suspected heart attack in late March, raising growing concern among her supporters over her worsening condition. Keywords for this article Source link

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi rushed to hospital following cardiac ‘crisis’

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi rushed to hospital following cardiac ‘crisis’

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Detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been hospitalised in Iran, her supporters said, “following a catastrophic deterioration of her health”. Mohammadi, who won the peace prize in 2023 in recognition of more than two decades of rights campaigning, was arrested in December in Iran’s eastern city of Mashhad after speaking out against the country’s clerical authorities at a funeral ceremony. Read moreIran sentences Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison Her supporters had been issuing warnings for months about her health, saying in late March that she had suffered a suspected heart attack but received inadequate medical treatment. In a statement posted by her foundation on Friday, they said she was “urgently transferred to a hospital in Zanjan today” after a rapid deterioration, “including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis”. The statement said her family described the move as a “last-minute action” that could prove too late. In Oslo the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged the Iranian authorities “to immediately transfer Narges Mohammadi to …

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates | Human Rights News

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates | Human Rights News

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Mohammadi has lost consciousness twice and suffered a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation has announced. By Al Jazeera Staff and The Associated Press Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026 Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred from prison to a hospital due to a sharp decline in her health. Mohammadi had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation announced on Friday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “This transfer was done as an unavoidable necessity after prison doctors determined her condition could not be managed on-site, despite standing medical recommendations that she be treated by her specialized team in Tehran,” the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said. Earlier on Friday, Mohammadi had fainted twice in prison in Zanjan in northwestern Iran, according to the foundation. 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 …

Iran’s Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi May Have Had a Heart Attack

Iran’s Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi May Have Had a Heart Attack

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BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi may have suffered a heart attack, one of her lawyers said Tuesday. Two of Mohammadi’s lawyers and her sister visited her in Zanjan Prison in northwestern Iran on Sunday, her French lawyer, Chirinne Ardakani, told The Associated Press after being briefed by the two Iranian lawyers who went to the prison. “When my colleagues saw her, they were shocked because she was very pale and had lost a lot of weight, and she was not alone but aided by a nurse,” Ardakani said. She added that, according to Mohammadi, her fellow inmates told her that on March 24 she was unconscious for over an hour. Upon later examination at the prison’s clinic, a doctor told her that she probably had had a heart attack. “She said she has since been having chest pain more than once a day and she has breathing difficulties and that she is in a very bad state,” Ardakani said. She said Mohammadi has been denied transfer to the hospital …

Mahnaz Mohammadi unveils psychological thriller ‘Roya,’ inspired by her time in prison in Iran

Mahnaz Mohammadi unveils psychological thriller ‘Roya,’ inspired by her time in prison in Iran

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Melisa Sözen in “Roya,” by Mahnaz Mohammadi. PAKFILM One month after the brutal crackdown on the Iranian people, who had taken to the streets en masse in January, the world premiere of Roya by Mahnaz Mohammadi at the Berlinale made a strong impression. Presented in the Panorama section, this psychological thriller is inspired by the real-life experiences of the filmmaker, born in 1975, who endured the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran. The film was unveiled toward the end of the festival, with the 76th edition concluding on Sunday, February 22. The body and sensory experience are at the heart of Roya. Told in fragmented episodes, the drama explores the ordeal of an Iranian political detainee, the eponymous Roya, portrayed by Turkish actress Melisa Sözen. A documentary filmmaker whose works include Travelogue (2006), which was screened in Paris in 2010, Mohammadi has been arrested several times since 2009 and was detained for seven months in Evin Prison, Tehran. In 2014, she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for “propaganda against the regime” and “gathering and colluding …