The health of Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Mohammadi, who is in jail in Iran, has suddenly deteriorated. After this he was immediately admitted to a hospital in Zanjan city of north-western Iran. This information was given by his foundation.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Mohammadi, who was in jail in Iran, suddenly got seriously ill. Due to this, he was hurriedly admitted to a hospital in north-western Iran. His foundation gave this information on Friday.
According to the Nargis Mohammadi Foundation, the Nobel laureate suffered fainting spells twice and a serious heart problem. The foundation said Mohammadi had fainted twice in the prison in Zanjan city on Friday. His lawyers told him after meeting with him in late March that he had possibly suffered a heart attack. At that time she was looking weak and was taking help from the nurse to walk.
Allegation of negligence in treatment
The foundation said Mohammadi was not given proper treatment for 140 days after his arrest on December 12. According to the foundation, jail doctors had already advised that Nargis could not be treated in jail. Doctors had asked him to be treated by a specialist team in Tehran.
The family had demanded several times for better treatment.
Mohammadi’s family had advocated for weeks for him to be sent to a hospital to provide better treatment. Quoting the family, the Foundation said that his admission to a hospital in Janjan on Friday seems to be a very late decision and a last-minute step.
My health had deteriorated earlier also
On March 24, Mohammadi’s fellow prisoners found him unconscious. He told this in the meeting with his lawyers a few days later. During a subsequent examination at the prison clinic, a doctor told him that he had probably suffered a heart attack. Since then he was suffering from chest pain and difficulty in breathing.
The jail administration had refused to admit him to the hospital.
His legal representative in France said at the time that Mohammadi had been denied hospitalization and access to his cardiologist. A prison official was present during the brief meeting with Mohammadi’s lawyers.
Nobel laureate’s sentence extended by seven years
Mohammadi, 53, who became the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate while in prison, was arrested in December during a visit to the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad. He was sentenced to an additional seven years in prison. Before her arrest on December 12, Mohammadi was already serving a sentence of 13 years and nine months on charges of conspiracy against state security and propaganda against the government of Iran. However, due to medical concerns he was released on parole from the end of 2024.
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