Family Sounds Alarm: Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Reportedly in Critical Condition in Iranian Custody

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian dissident, is being held in an Iranian prison, and her medical condition is described as extremely serious. Her family reported this today (Monday).

According to the report, Mohammadi suffered a cardiac event over the weekend, and her family said she is hospitalized in a hospital in northwestern Iran. Her brother, Hamid-Reza, who lives in Norway, told the BBC that the Islamic Republic refuses to transfer her for proper treatment in Tehran. According to the brother, the regime is "trying to get rid of her".

Fifty-four-year-old Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, in recognition of her work for women's rights in Iran and to abolish the death penalty there. Her award was announced while she was already in prison, after she had been sentenced to 13 years in prison and 154 lashes, for protest actions against the ayatollahs' regime. 

About a year and a half ago she was released on parole because of her fragile medical condition, but in December 2025, with the outbreak of protests in Iran, she was arrested and imprisoned again. Two months ago she was tried again and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, for "illegal assembly, conspiracy, and promoting propaganda".