Nobel Laureate Mohammadi Transferred to Tehran Hospital

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was transferred to a hospital in Tehran on Sunday, more than a week after collapsing in an Iranian prison, according to her foundation.

The 53-year-old women's rights activist had been held in Zanjan prison since her arrest in December in the northeastern city of Mashhad. She lost consciousness twice on May 1 and was moved to a local hospital's cardiac care unit, where her blood pressure fluctuated between extremely low and high levels. She required oxygen support and was unable to speak, her family said.

Mohammadi's foundation announced that she received a suspension of her prison sentence on bail, though the duration remains unclear. She faces 18 years remaining on her term. The foundation stated that the suspension falls short of her needs for permanent, specialized care outside prison. "We must ensure she never returns to prison," the group said in a statement. "Now is the time to demand her unconditional freedom and the dismissal of all charges."

Her Iran-based lawyer, Mostafa Nili, said on social media that the transfer order followed a decision by the government's Legal Medicine Organization. The examiners determined that...