Jailed Iranian Nobel winner Mohammadi ‘critical’ after heart attack

The health of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is critical after she suffered a heart attack last month, supporters warned on Wednesday.

Her Iran-based family and legal team were on Saturday allowed a second in-person visit with Mohammadi in her prison in northern Iran where “clear signs of a deterioration in her general condition were observed, and her physical state was described as critical”, her foundation said in a statement.

The latest meeting came after an earlier visit in late March where it emerged that Mohammadi had suffered a heart attack earlier in the month.

The family reported after the latest visit that Mohammadi “has become extremely weak and has suffered significant weight loss”, the statement quoted her Norway-based brother Hamidreza Mohammadi as saying.

He added that his sister was “being held in a cell with prisoners charged with murder and has been threatened with death by some of these inmates several times”.

Mohammadi, who won the peace prize in 2023 in recognition of more than two decades of campaigning, was arrested on December 12 in the eastern city of Mashhad after speaking out against Iran’s clerical authorities at a funeral ceremony.