• Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is in critical condition in a hospital in Sanjan, northwestern Iran, according to her lawyer Chirinne Ardakani.
  • Mohammadi was transferred from prison to the hospital on Friday; her family fears she was admitted too late after losing consciousness twice and suffering serious heart problems.
  • The Nobel Committee in Oslo has demanded her immediate transfer to her own medical team in Tehran, but without success.
  • Mohammadi has been repeatedly tried and imprisoned over the past 25 years for her activism against compulsory hijab and the death penalty in Iran.
  • She has spent most of the last ten years in prison and has not seen her children, who live in Paris, since 2015.

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