Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi rushed to hospital following ‘severe’ cardiac crisis

Detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been hospitalised in Iran, her supporters said, “following a catastrophic deterioration of her health”. Mohammadi, who won the peace prize in 2023 in recognition of more than two decades of rights campaigning, was arrested in December in Iran’s eastern city of Mashhad after speaking out against the country’s clerical authorities at a funeral ceremony. Read moreIran sentences Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison Her supporters had been issuing warnings for months about her health, saying in late March that she had suffered a suspected heart attack but received inadequate medical treatment. In a statement posted by her foundation on Friday, they said she was “urgently transferred to a hospital in Zanjan today” after a rapid deterioration, “including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis”. The statement said her family described the move as a “last-minute action” that could prove too late. In Oslo the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged the Iranian authorities “to immediately transfer Narges Mohammadi to her dedicated medical team in Tehran”. “Without such treatment, her life remains at risk,” committee chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes said. “Her life is now in