Mohammadi was arrested earlier than protests erupted nationwide later in December. The motion peaked in January, with authorities launching a crackdown that activists say has left hundreds lifeless.
Earlier this month, she was handed an extra six years in jail on expenses of harming nationwide safety and a one-and-a-half-year jail sentence for propaganda towards Iran’s Islamic system.
Over the previous quarter of a century, Mohammadi, 53, has been repeatedly tried and jailed for her campaigning towards Iran’s use of capital punishment and the necessary costume code for girls.
Mohammadi was born in Zanjan however lived in Tehran. Her basis stated she had, on two events throughout earlier jail stints, been transferred to Zanjan jail the place she suffered in poor health remedy.
Her husband Taghi Rahmani, who has lived in exile since 2012, stated he final spoke to his spouse, who lives in Tehran, the night time earlier than she left for Mashhad.
She was attending a memorial there for a human rights lawyer who had died the earlier week beneath unclear circumstances. On the memorial, plainclothes members of the safety forces started to assault Mohammadi earlier than she had completed her speech, in accordance with her husband.
He stated a number of males hit and kicked her in her facet, head and neck.
Particulars of her deteriorating situation have come from launched detainees who had been held alongside Mohammadi in Mashhad, Rahmani stated.
“HER PHYSICAL CONDITION IS VERY SEVERE”
“Collectively, this data exhibits her bodily situation could be very extreme due to the hits she acquired, her bruised physique,” he stated, including that her coronary heart situation had worsened.
Mohammadi suffered a number of coronary heart assaults whereas imprisoned earlier than present process emergency surgical procedure in 2022, her supporters say. Her lawyer in late 2024 revealed medical doctors discovered a bone lesion they feared might be cancerous, which was later eliminated.
“Our primary concern about Narges is her diseases,” Rahmani stated. He stated three of her 4 coronary arteries are constricted, and she or he has pulmonary issues. “These diseases she has gotten from being in jail. When she is in jail, it isn’t doable to deal with her well being,” he stated.
Nationwide protests started to unfold round Iran, culminating in marches by a whole lot of hundreds on January 8 to 9, till they have been crushed by a heavy authorities crackdown. Rights teams have to this point counted greater than 7000 lifeless, and say the true quantity is probably going far larger; the federal government has put the toll at greater than 3,100 lifeless.
Rahmani stated circumstances for political prisoners in Iran have continued to deteriorate amid the suppression of the most recent protests. The crackdown is the deadliest because the Islamic Republic was created in 1979.
“In these 47 years, the Islamic Republic hadn’t killed folks to this extent. It is a flagrant crime. Individuals very clearly wish to put the Islamic Republic behind them,” Rahmani stated. “They need a republic, they need democracy.”
