Iranian authoritiesshould release Iranian authorities N Argis Mohammadi, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize is calling for.
Given that the health of Nargis Mohammadi, who received the 2023 Peace Prize for defending human rights in Iran, “has seriously deteriorated,” Geren Watte Fridnes, head of Nobel Peace Prize Committee called for her release from the Iranian authorities.
“The Iranian authorities must release Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nargis Mohammadi so that she can receive urgent treatment from the dedicated medical team monitoring her as her life remains in danger,” Bergen Vatne Fridnes told Reuters today.
Recall that 54-year-old, Nargis Mohammadi won the award while in prison for her campaign for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran.
Nargis Mohammadi Foundation said in a statement posted yesterday, Friday, on its website that she was “hospitalized urgently today in a hospital in Zanzan after a dramatic deterioration in her health, including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe heart attack.”
Her transfer to the hospital was “unavoidable after prison doctors deemed her condition could not be treated on the spot,” it said.
In an updated post today, the institution said she remains in an unstable condition and is being given oxygen. It called for her to be taken to a hospital in Tehran and for tests and specialized treatment.
Nargis Mohammadi was again sentenced to 7.5 years in prison, the foundation said in February, weeks before the US and Israel launched their war against Iran.The Nobel Committee had then called on Tehran to release her immediately.
She was arrested in December after she reported the death of a lawyer, Khosrow Alikodi. At the time, prosecutor Hassan Hematifar had told reporters that she made provocative comments at a memorial service for Alikordi.
Yesterday, Friday morning, Nargis Mohammadi fainted after days of dangerously high blood pressure and severe nausea, according to the foundation. After several bouts of vomiting, she collapsed and was taken to a prison medical unit to receive an emergency intravenous infusion.
The activist, who has undergone three angioplasties, faces a “direct and immediate threat to her right to life,” her family said. “We demand that all charges be immediately dropped and the sentences imposed on her for her peaceful human rights work be unconditionally dropped,” her family said in a message.
