The husband of Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi described the family’s fears yesterday after her hospitalisation for severe medical problems and the authorities’ refusal to transfer her to Tehran.
Mohammadi, 54, won the prize in 2023 while in prison for a campaign to advance women’s rights and abolish the death penalty, and she suffered a heart attack last week.
“We are very afraid because the illnesses that Narges has, such as high blood pressure or a pulmonary embolism, could lead to her death,” said her husband, Taghi Rahmani, who lives in Paris.
“We are maintaining contact through family, through acquaintances we have, and through her lawyer, and it is very difficult right now. The Internet is down, and we are receiving information through phone calls and various other means,” he said.
Mohammadi’s family want her to be transferred from Zanjan, where she was serving her sentence and where she is now in hospital, to the capital where she could receive better medical care.
The couple have 19-year-old twin children.
Rahmani spoke to Mohammadi yesterday morning, he said, adding that Iranian authorities had agreed to keep her in hospital for a week. “Even if her condition improves a little, if she is sent back to prison her condition will worsen again and we are afraid of that,” he added.
Rahmani said he believed the Iran war had made things worse for Mohammadi, by giving the military greater control.
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