Narges Mohammadi Released on Bail and Transferred to Tehran Hospital

Narges Mohammadi was released on bail and transferred to Tehran Pars Hospital for medical treatment, according to her foundation. The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner had been held in Zanjan prison, where she spent 10 days at a local hospital before the move to Tehran, the BBC reported.

She was found unconscious in her cell after an apparent heart attack in March. Mohammadi has lost about 20kg while in prison, has difficulty speaking and is barely recognisable, according to her lawyer Chirinne Ardakani. Her foundation stated she is now at Tehran Pars Hospital to be treated by her own medical team.

Mohammadi has been arrested 14 times and sentenced to a total of 44 years in prison and 154 lashes. She has spent more than a decade in prison and has 18 years remaining on her sentence. In 2021 she began serving a 13-year sentence on charges of propaganda activity against the state and collusion against state security.

She was released on temporary sentence suspension in December 2024 on medical grounds.

Iranian authorities rearrested her in December 2025 for making provocative remarks at a memorial ceremony. In early February 2026 a Revolutionary Court sentenced her to an additional seven-and-a-half years in prison for gathering and collusion and propaganda activities, her lawyer said. She has been held in Evin, Qarchak and Zanjan prisons.

According to writings smuggled out over the past decade and published in her forthcoming memoir A Woman Never Stops Fighting, Mohammadi has suffered a pulmonary embolism, seizures, multiple infections, chest pain and other medical events in prison. “There is no hardship worse than illness combined with imprisonment,” she wrote.

The memoir, drawn from those writings, will be published in September.