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LIFE OF TORTURED NOBEL LAUREATE AT RISK IN PRISON

Iran Fourteenth UA 105.15

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi is at grave and immediate risk in Iran. She has faced reprisals for nearly 25 years, including repeated convictions for peaceful activism; in February 2026 she reported receiving a further sentence of seven years and six months and other penalties. Since her arbitrary re-arrest in Mashhad on December 12, 2025, she has been held in Zanjan prison and denied adequate medical care despite serious heart disease and worsening symptoms. She suffered a heart attack on March 24, 2026 and authorities denied her urgent specialist treatment in a hospital outside prison in Tehran. Iranian authorities have a documented pattern of delaying or conditioning her access to care, including returning her to prison against medical advice after emergency heart surgery in February 2022 and obstructing hospital transfer again in November 2023.

On May 10, following global advocacy, Iranian authorities temporarily suspended her sentence and released her on bail. She is now in intensive care in a Tehran hospital.

Please continue to call on the Iranian authorities to ensure that Narges Mohammadi receives the specialized ongoing medical care she needs, and repeat your calls for her immediate and unconditional release, quashing her convictions and sentences.

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Supreme Leader

Mojtaba

Khamenei

Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations

Dear Mr. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei,

Narges Mohammadi’s life is in immediate danger. Authorities in Zanjan prison are denying her essential specialist cardiac care. On March 24, 2026 she suffered a heart attack and was found unconscious and was treated only in the prison infirmary rather than transferred to hospital. A cardiologist who examined her on March 30 warned she remains at risk of another attack. Her family and lawyers report ongoing chest pain, severe deterioration, and a 20 kg weight loss since her arbitrary arrest on December 12, 2025. Although the Legal Medical Examiner recommended a one month medical suspension on April 13, prosecutors continue to refuse temporary release and block transfer to Tehran for specialist treatment.

I urge you to immediately and unconditionally release her as a prisoner of conscience and quash her convictions and sentences. Pending release, ensure she is transferred without delay to an appropriate medical facility for urgent treatment and protect her from torture or other ill-treatment. Order an independent, impartial investigation into her allegations of torture and ill-treatment and ensure those responsible are held to account in fair proceedings.

Yours sincerely,

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