Jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohammadi Denied Medical Care

Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, is being denied access to medical services while in Tehran’s Evin prison, her family says.

According to Mohammadi's Instagram page, which is managed by her relatives, she has been prevented from being transferred to a hospital due to her refusal to wear a headscarf.

On October 30, Mohammadi was called to hospital for the second time since September 4 to undergo a CT scan of her lungs and an echocardiogram, it said, adding that the activist was not permitted to leave the prison premises.

The Instagram post further disclosed that the prosecutor issued an order stipulating that Mohammadi should not, under any circumstances, be taken to hospital without wearing a headscarf. 

In response to this decision, Mohammadi and her fellow inmates launched a protest to denounce the dire prison conditions.