{"id":227533,"date":"2026-05-11T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227533\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:37:17","slug":"narges-mohammadi-jailed-iranian-nobel-prize-winner-is-transferred-to-tehran-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227533\/","title":{"rendered":"Narges Mohammadi, Jailed Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Is Transferred to Tehran Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent human rights activist who collapsed earlier this month, has been transferred to a hospital in Tehran for treatment by her own medical team, a foundation run by her family said in a statement<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ms. Mohammadi, 54, has spent much of her adult life in and out of prison in Iran\u2019s authoritarian theocracy and her health has deteriorated in recent months. She was hospitalized on May 1<\/a> in the city of Zanjan,<\/a> where she had been in prison, after collapsing and losing consciousness, but requests to move her to Tehran for treatment were denied at that time.<\/p>\n

Ms. Mohammadi spent 10 days in that hospital, before being transferred to another hospital in Tehran on Sunday, the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said.<\/p>\n

Mostafa Nili, a lawyer for Ms. Mohammadi, said<\/a> on social media on Sunday that she had been transferred to Tehran \u201cfollowing an order halting her sentence for medical treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement from the foundation called for \u201cher unconditional freedom and the dismissal of all charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNarges Mohammadi\u2019s life hangs in the balance,\u201d said her husband, Taghi Rahmani, according to the foundation\u2019s statement. \u201cNarges must never be returned to the conditions that broke her health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Mr. Rahmani said Ms. Mohammadi suffers from chronic heart problems and had suffered rough treatment in prison, including beatings by prison guards.<\/p>\n

Ms. Mohammadi received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize \u201cfor her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,\u201d while serving a 10-year prison sentence on charges of threatening national security. Ms. Mohammadi was arrested again in December after she delivered a speech critical of the government while on a yearlong furlough from prison because of her health. In February, an Iranian court sentenced her to an additional seven and a half years in jail for her opposition to the government.<\/p>\n

In a report<\/a> accompanying an excerpt from Ms. Mohammadi\u2019s upcoming memoir published by The Guardian on Sunday, Ms. Mohammadi was reported as saying there was \u201cno hardship worse than illness combined with imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAuthoritarian regimes do not always need an executioner\u2019s rope. Sometimes, they simply wait for the human body to fail,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n