The Iranian regime's judiciary has granted the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi a long-requested hospital stay. The request was accepted nine weeks later, her husband Taghi Rahmani wrote on the online platform Instagram. He added that this transfer was thanks to the support of civil rights activists and pressure from the media and the international community.

The years of imprisonment and solitary confinement had seriously damaged his wife's health and required prolonged treatment, wrote Rahmani, and again called for Mohammadi's immediate release. He did not provide any further details about her health. Mohammadi suffers from heart failure. However, it remained unclear when and where Mohammadi was taken to the hospital and how long the 52-year-old activist will be treated there.

Human rights organizations have long accused Iran's judiciary of denying her adequate medical care in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Other political prisoners in the prison also repeatedly complain about a lack of medical care.

Torture in Evin exposed

Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023. She received it for her fight against the oppression of women and against the death penalty in Iran, as well as for her commitment to human rights and freedom.

The activist, who was born in Zanjan in northwestern Iran in 1972 and grew up partly in Rojhilat, has already been sentenced to long prison terms and lashes several times, and has been imprisoned in Evin prison since the end of 2021. There, during the height of the "Jin, Jiyan, Azadî" revolution against the power apparatus of the mullah regime that broke out after the femicide of the Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022, she uncovered severe torture and sexualized violence against dozens of women.

In the same wing as Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi

Mohammadi's fellow inmates in the women's section of the prison include the Kurdish journalist Pakhshan Azizi, who has been sentenced to death, and the KJAR activist Warisha Moradi. The latter has been on an indefinite hunger strike against the death penalty for over two weeks.

Moradi has been on hunger strike for 19 days. 

KJAR issued a statement on 25 October calling for participation in the general hunger strike and asking Warisha Moradi to end her hunger strike action as her condition has worsened due to a serious drop in blood pressure and there is a high possibility that she may fall into a coma.

More than 120 civil society activists from East Kurdistan issued a joint statement in support of Warisha Moradi’s resistance.