No care without a scarf. Iran would have blocked for the second time the transfer to hospital of the activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi, detained in a prison in Tehran, because she had refused to cover her head. At least that’s what her family says about her on Instagram: “She is willing to risk her life by not wearing the forced hijab, even for medical treatment.”
However, the 51-year-old winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize required urgent treatment for heart and lung problems.
Banished from the infirmary
“On October 29, the prison director announced that, in accordance with the orders of higher authorities, it was forbidden to send him to the heart hospital without a veil, and his transfer was canceled for the second time” we can read in the message posted by his loved ones. Narges Mohammadi also did not have authorization to be transferred to the prison infirmary.
A medical team was then sent to the women’s wing of the prison on Monday to examine her and carry out an echocardiogram. As told Publicationthese tests revealed a “high pulmonary pressure” and veins that are not “not in good condition”. The winner’s family believes that the heart and lung problems their loved one suffers from require rapid treatment.
On November 1, the Iranian activist managed to secretly send a message from her cell phone, which was read by her daughter and published on Instagram. Narges Mohammadi expressed her opinion “the most sincere gratitude” to the committee that awarded her the Nobel Prize and underlined the compulsory wearing of the hijab as “ the primary source of control and repression in society, aimed at maintaining and perpetuating authoritarian religious rule “.
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