APPEAL TO IRANIAN AUTHORITIES

Iranian authorities must release Mohammadi to her dedicated medical team so she can urgently receive treatment as her life is at risk, said Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize.

She “is imprisoned solely for her peaceful human rights work. Her life is now in the hands of the Iranian authorities,” he told Reuters on Saturday.

Mohammadi was sentenced to a new prison term of seven-and-a-half years, the foundation said in February, weeks before the US and Israel launched their war against Iran. The Nobel committee at the time called on Tehran to free her immediately.

She was arrested in December after denouncing the death of a lawyer, Khosrow Alikordi; prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters then she had made provocative remarks at Alikordi’s memorial ceremony.

On Friday morning, Mohammadi fainted after days of dangerously high blood pressure and severe nausea, the foundation said. After multiple bouts of vomiting, she blacked out and was moved to the prison medical unit for emergency intravenous fluids.

The activist, who has undergone three angioplasty procedures, faces a “direct and immediate” threat to her right to life, her family said. “We call for all charges to be dropped immediately and for all sentences imposed for her peaceful human rights work to be unconditionally annulled.”