Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalized after health crisis in prison

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a "catastrophic deterioration" of her health, her foundation said Friday. The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said the Nobel Prize laureate had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis. READ MORE: Iran sentences Nobel laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison Earlier 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 a nurse to help her walk. The hospital transfer comes "after 140 days of systematic medical neglect," since her arrest on Dec. 12, the foundation said. "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 foundation said. Help may be little too late, family says Mohammadi's family had advocated for her transfer