Jailed Iranian Activist Mohammadi Taken to Hospital for Angiography

Iran's prison officials transferred this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a hospital on November 16 to undergo an angiography, a type of X-ray used to check blood vessels, her family says. 

"After a week of asking, the prosecutor finally granted permission for her transfer, and she was sent to the hospital this morning,” according to a post on Mohammadi's Instagram account, which is run by her family.

Mohammadi launched a hunger strike on November 6 in protest against the denial of medical care for herself and other women detainees who refuse to wear a mandatory headscarf. 

Two days later, on November 8, her husband Taghi Rahmani announced that she “was taken to the hospital without the mandatory hijab for medical tests.”

Rahmani said that the prison doctor's had recommended her "immediate hospitalization" due to a "50-percent blockage of two heart vessels.”

Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last month for keeping up her fight against the “oppression of women” in her country despite numerous arrests and spending years behind bars.