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Iranian rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi’s health is failing. Despite suffering several heart attacks in recent years, she is continually denied the health care she desperately needs.

Iran’s authorities convicted Narges of several trumped-up offences in connection with her human rights work and sentenced her to 16 years in prison in 2016. She was finally released from prison in 2020 after tens of thousands of people called for her release. 

But she was once again sentenced to over 10 years in prison and 154 lashes in April 2022, charged with “spreading propaganda against the system”. 

On 6 November 2023, Narges went on a hunger strike in protest at the authorities’ refusal to transfer her for urgent medical tests at a hospital outside prison for over two months. Two days later, amidst a global outcry, the authorities transferred her to hospital without the compulsory headscarf but returned her to prison the same day before the results were reviewed by doctors. 

Narges learned that the doctors had found fluid around her heart on 11 November 2023, requiring an immediate angioplasty. Despite this, authorities blocked her transfer to hospital until 16 November, when she was finally taken to hospital for the procedure and returned to prison the same day against medical advice. 

Narges should not be detained in the first place, let alone while suffering serious health complications without adequate access to the care she needs, including follow-up treatment and monitoring of her heart condition. 

Iran’s rights defenders face incredible danger. Prisoners in Gharchak, where Narges is imprisoned, have reported overflowing sewage, putting prisoners at risk of disease. Despite this, Narges doesn’t give up. She keeps fighting for human rights, even in prison. She needs you to keep fighting too. 

We must again show Iran that the world is watching and that we won’t stay silent in the face of injustice.

Call for Narges' immediate release, so she can have her freedom and the medical care that she desperately needs.

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Head of the Judiciary
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei

Your Excellency,

I call on you to immediately and unconditionally release Narges Mohammadi as she is a prisoner of conscience detained solely for her peaceful human rights activities, quash her unjust convictions and sentences, and drop any criminal proceedings against her in relation to the peaceful exercise of her human rights.

Pending her release, she must be provided with adequate healthcare, including treatment unavailable in prison, and with all the medication she requires. She must also be protected from further torture and other ill-treatment. A prompt, independent, effective and impartial investigation into her allegations of torture and other ill-treatment must be conducted, with a view to bringing those responsible to justice in fair trials.

Yours sincerely,

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