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 1000’s 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 mentioned she had, on two events throughout earlier jail stints, been transferred to Zanjan jail the place she suffered unwell remedy.
Her husband Taghi Rahmani, who has lived in exile since 2012, mentioned he final spoke to his spouse, who lives in Tehran, the evening earlier than she left for Mashhad.
She was attending a memorial there for a human rights lawyer who had died the earlier week below unclear circumstances. On the memorial, plainclothes members of the safety forces started to assault Mohammadi earlier than she had completed her speech, based on her husband.
He mentioned a number of males hit and kicked her in her aspect, head and neck.
Particulars of her deteriorating situation have come from launched detainees who had been held alongside Mohammadi in Mashhad, Rahmani mentioned.
“HER PHYSICAL CONDITION IS VERY SEVERE”
“Collectively, this info exhibits her bodily situation could be very extreme due to the hits she acquired, her bruised physique,” he mentioned, 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 major concern about Narges is her diseases,” Rahmani mentioned. He mentioned three of her 4 coronary arteries are constricted, and he or she has pulmonary issues. “These diseases she has gotten from being in jail. When she is in jail, it isn’t attainable to care for her well being,” he mentioned.
Nationwide protests started to unfold round Iran, culminating in marches by a whole lot of 1000’s 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 mentioned situations for political prisoners in Iran have continued to deteriorate amid the suppression of the newest protests. The crackdown is the deadliest because the Islamic Republic was created in 1979.
“In these 47 years, the Islamic Republic hadn’t killed individuals to this extent. This can be a flagrant crime. Individuals very clearly need to put the Islamic Republic behind them,” Rahmani mentioned. “They need a republic, they need democracy.”
