Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi.Image: EPA
May 9, 2026, 3:13 p.mMay 9, 2026, 3:13 p.m
According to her husband, the health condition of Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi remains critical. Taghi Rahmani, who lives in Paris, wrote on the X platform that she suffered a sharp drop in blood pressure to 9:4 and now even has difficulty speaking.
فشار خون نرگس به ۹ روی ۴ افت کرده و او حال عمومی مساعدی ندارد؛ حتی حرف زدن برای او مشکل شده است. پزشکان با تزریق دارو موقتاً وضعیتش را کنترل میکنند، اما وضعیت او همچنان ناپایدار است و نیاز فوری به درمان قطعی دارد.
— TAGHI RAHMANI (@RahmaniTaghi) May 9, 2026
Taghi Rahmani’s X post.
According to Rahmani, the medical team can currently only stabilize her “temporarily” with medication. However, her condition is critical and she urgently needs comprehensive medical treatment, the husband warned.
After suffering a heart attack, the 54-year-old has been in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the northwestern Iranian city of Sanjan for a week, where she is also imprisoned. Rahmani and other family members have been demanding for days that Mohammadi be moved to Tehran so that she can be treated by her own specialists.
Sentenced again this year to several years in prison
The Narges Mohammadi Foundation also emphasized that the medical staff in Sanjan were not sufficiently familiar with her complex medical history. There are also increasing calls from abroad to either release Mohammadi or at least transfer him to the capital.
Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her work against the oppression of women and against the death penalty in Iran. At the beginning of February, according to her lawyer, she was sentenced again to several years in prison for “conspiracy” and “propagandistic activities”; There is also a two-year ban on leaving the country. (sda/dpa)