Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi needs urgent heart treatment in Tehran, brother says

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was taken from jail to hospital last week, requires urgent specialized medical care to treat a life-threatening heart condition, her brother says.

Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison for her campaign to advance women’s rights and abolish the death penalty in Iran. She suffered a suspected heart attack in late March and was taken to a hospital in northwestern Iran on May 1 in rapidly deteriorating health, her family has said.

“She is suffering from terrible headaches, nausea and chest pain. That is what we are very worried about, her heart,” her brother Hamidreza Mohammadi says in an interview from his home in Norway.

The provincial hospital where she is being treated cannot provide her adequate care, he says.

Experts “all believe that her life is in danger and she needs at least one month away from prison conditions to be treated properly,” he says. “She needs her own doctors who have performed the operations before and know exactly what is wrong with her.”

Both Mohammadi’s family and the Norwegian Nobel Committee have appealed to the Iranian authorities to transfer her to her dedicated medical team in Tehran for treatment.