Narges Mohammadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate currently serving a prison sentence in Iran, remained in critical condition on Sunday while being treated in a cardiac care unit in the country's northwest, according to a statement from a foundation run by her family.
The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said her blood pressure has continued to fluctuate at dangerous levels since she was taken from prison to the hospital two days earlier. Medical efforts so far have focused on stabilising her through oxygen therapy, the foundation added.
Mohammadi, who is in her 50s, was transferred from custody to a hospital in the city of Zanjan on Friday after what the foundation described as a "catastrophic deterioration" in her health. The foundation said the deterioration included two episodes in which she completely lost consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.
The foundation's statement emphasised that effective treatment for her condition would require a transfer to her established medical team in Tehran. It said that, as of Sunday, such a transfer had not occurred and that current care has been limited to measures aimed at stabilising her vital signs.
Family members previously reported that Mohammadi suffered a suspected heart attack in late March. The foundation reiterated that timely access to appropriate medical specialists is essential to address the complexity of her condition.
Mohammadi was handed a new prison sentence of seven and a half years earlier in February, the foundation said. That development occurred weeks before what the statement described as the launch of war against Iran by the United States and Israel; at the time of the sentencing, the Nobel committee urged Iranian authorities to release her immediately.
Her December arrest followed public remarks she made at a memorial for a lawyer, Khosrow Alikordi, whose death she had denounced. Prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters then that she had made provocative remarks at that memorial ceremony, according to the foundation's recounting of events.
The foundation's account presents an urgent medical picture: a prisoner with a serious cardiac condition under limited hospital care outside the capital and whose treatment team in Tehran has not yet taken over her care. The statement underscores the immediate medical risks and the family's call for transfer to specialists capable of delivering more comprehensive treatment.