Iran Husband: Nobel laureate Mohammadi's health in critical condition
The health of Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi remains critical, according to her husband. She has suffered a sharp drop in blood pressure to 9 to 4, and even speaking is now difficult for her, wrote Taghi Rahmani, who lives in Paris, on the X platform.
09.05.2026, 16:00
SDA
According to Rahmani, the medical team can currently only stabilize her "provisionally" with medication. However, her condition is critical and she urgently needs comprehensive medical treatment, the husband warned.
Following a heart attack, the 54-year-old has been in intensive care for a week in a hospital in the north-western Iranian city of Sandzhan, where she is also being held. Rahmani and other family members have been calling for days for Mohammadi to be transferred to Tehran so that she can be treated there by her own specialists.
Sentenced to several years in prison again this year
The Narges Mohammadi Foundation also emphasized that the medical staff in Sandzhan were not sufficiently familiar with her complex medical history. There are also increasing calls from abroad to either release Mohammadi or at least transfer her to the capital.
Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her work against the oppression of women and against the death penalty in Iran. According to her lawyer, she was sentenced again at the beginning of February to several years in prison for "conspiracy" and "propaganda activities"; she is also banned from leaving the country for two years.
