Nobel Peace Prize-winning Iranian activist Nargess Mohammadi’s daughter Kiana Rahmani, son Ali Rahmani and Nobel Committee Chairman Norwegian Berit Reis Andersen attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2023.
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Iranian human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Joe, who is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence in Iran, has been admitted to hospital in a serious condition after collapsing and fainting in prison. Mohammadi, 54, who suffers from chronic heart and other health problems, is experiencing a “catastrophic decline” in her health, according to a statement from her foundation. released on friday.
Mohammadi was moved from prison to intensive care on Friday at a hospital in the city of Zanjan, the provincial capital northwest of Tehran. According to a statement from his foundation, his family and lawyer have requested that he be transferred to specialist care in Tehran on the advice of his medical team, but authorities have refused to allow him to be transferred. In March, she suffered a heart attack and fainted in prison, but according to her husband, government officials refused to take her to any hospital for treatment.
In December 2024, he was given medical leave from prison due to his ill health. While on leave in December 2025, he spoke out against the Iranian regime at the funeral of a fellow activist and was arrested again. Mohammadi was then sentenced to 10 years in prison for endangering national security. In February, she was sentenced For an additional seven and a half years.
Mohammadi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her work on women’s rights, her activism against the Iranian government’s use of torture and sexual violence, and her advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran. At that time, she was already been Arrested 13 times, convicted five times, and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.
While she was imprisoned in the most infamous Jail In Iran, in Tehran’s Evin Prison, she became one of the leading activists in Iran’s “Women, Life, Freedom” movement.
In his 2025 book For the Sun After the Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led UprisingJournalists Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizi recount one of Mohammadi’s recent battles with the prison, in which she refused to wear the mandatory hijab while she was being transferred from prison to a hospital for treatment of her ongoing illnesses. Jamalpur and Tabrezi write, “The judicial system finally caved in after she and several other female prisoners went on a hunger strike for three days. Only then did she go to the hospital to undergo heart surgery.”
Iran has continued to repress dissidents during its ongoing war with the US and Israel. according to a statement released on thursday The Iranian government has executed at least 22 political prisoners, including three minors, within the past six weeks, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based non-profit, non-partisan organization. According to CHRI, most of these executions were carried out in secret and without notifying the prisoners’ families or lawyers.
