Iran’s Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi returns home after being released from hospital | Human Rights Issues

Mohammadi will remain under “medical supervision”, the foundation says.

Iranian human rights activist and winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Narges Mohammadi He has returned home after being discharged from the hospital, the foundation said.

Mohammadi, 54, was discharged from Pars Hospital in Tehran on Sunday, the Narges Foundation said on Monday. He was he was transferred from prison to hospital at the beginning of May after having two episodes of loss of consciousness and a serious heart attack.

Mohammadi “plans to follow up on his medical problems with his medical team by going to the hospital and daily physiotherapy in the coming weeks”, the statement read, adding that the doctors said “it is important for him to be under medical supervision”.

Mohammadi was arrested the following December was arrested during a visit to the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad. In February, he was sentenced more than 7 years in prison. His lawyer said the six-year sentence was “complimentary”.

His family said in February that the handler was seriously ill as a result of the alleged beatings he suffered during his arrest in December.

She said several men kicked her all over the body. In late March, as he was about to begin his sentence, he suffered a heart attack.

His daughter and president of the Narges Foundation, Kiana Rahmani, said on Monday that returning Mohammadi to prison would be a “death sentence”.

“We have to make sure that they remain free, all baseless charges are dropped, and torture ends. Fighting for human rights is not a crime, and no one should be arrested for it,” Rahmani said.

Mohammadi won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize “for his fight against the oppression of women in Iran and his fight for human rights and freedom for all,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

Mohammadi, an engineer by training, has been arrested 13 times and sentenced five times, serving 30 years in prison.