Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a “catastrophic deterioration” of her health, her foundation said Friday.
The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said the Nobel Prize laureate had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.
Earlier Friday, Mohammadi had fainted twice in prison in Zanjan in northwestern Iran, according to the foundation.
She was believed to have suffered a heart attack in late March, according to her lawyers who visited her a few days after the incident.
At the time, she appeared pale, underweight and needed a nurse to help her walk.
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The hospital transfer comes “after 140 days of systematic medical neglect,” since her arrest on Dec. 12, the
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