Amnesty International Call: Narges Mohammadi's Life is in Danger

On December 1, Amnesty International issued a statement declaring that the life of imprisoned human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is in danger and called for her unconditional release. The organization protested against her arbitrary detention and the mistreatment and torture she has faced, warning that Iranian authorities are deliberately denying her access to adequate healthcare or severely delaying it to force her to comply with Iran's humiliating and degrading mandatory hijab laws. Amnesty International explicitly stated that deprivation of medical care constitutes torture. It further noted that due to this imprisoned human rights defender's refusal to comply with the mandatory hijab, Iranian authorities are using medical deprivation as punishment during her transfer outside the prison. The human rights organization reported that on November 6, in protest against the authorities' refusal to transfer Narges Mohammadi for urgent medical tests to a hospital outside the prison, she went on a hunger strike, but two days later, due to global protests, officials transferred her to the hospital without the mandatory hijab. However, on the same day, before the doctors could review the test results, she was returned to Evin Prison in Tehran. Amnesty International stated that despite doctors diagnosing her with an urgent need for angioplasty and swelling of liquids in her esophagus, the prosecutor's office again prevented her transfer to the hospital on November 15, conditioning it on compliance with the mandatory hijab. Nevertheless, the next day she was transferred for angioplasty without the mandatory hijab and returned to prison on the same day against medical advice. Ms. Mohammadi had previously stated that she would not comply with the mandatory hijab for her transfer to the hospital, which had previously led judicial authorities to block her hospital transfers. Prior to that, on November 11, she was summoned to Evin Prosecutor's Office for 'clarification of new charges' but was not allowed to leave the women's ward because she 'did not wear a headscarf.' Narges Mohammadi's Instagram page announced that she had told her lawyer and family during a phone call that she was not allowed to leave the women's ward due to not wearing a headscarf and was unaware of the new charges against her. This is the seventh case against Narges Mohammadi in the past nine months due to her activities from inside prison. Born in 1972 in Zanjan, she has been arrested and imprisoned multiple times over the past two decades. In her latest legal case, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for 'anti-government propaganda' and is currently in Evin Prison in Tehran. Narges Mohammadi and the suffering of years in prison for freedom, as narrated by Maryam Safajoo. Narges Mohammadi's summons to Evin Prosecutor's Office; 'Did not wear a headscarf' and 'was not allowed to leave' the women's ward. Visitors to Narges Mohammadi during her hospital stay were threatened and arrested. Taghi Rahmani told Voice of America: Narges Mohammadi was transferred to the hospital 'without the mandatory hijab.'