Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargess Mohammadi has been transferred to a hospital in the Iranian capital Tehran for medical treatment, a foundation run by her family said on Sunday.
Mohammadi has been granted a temporary suspension of his sentence in exchange for the payment of substantial bail, the foundation said in a statement.
He has now been transferred by ambulance to Tehran’s Pars Hospital “to be treated by his own medical team.”
The foundation did not provide any details of the bail arrangements or the suspension of his sentence.
Mohammadi’s husband, Taghi Rahmani, who lives in Paris, also confirmed on social media that he had been transferred to Tehran.
Ten days earlier, Mohammadi had been hospitalized in the northwestern city of Zanjan after collapsing in the prison cell where he was imprisoned.
Mohammadi’s brother Hamidreza Mohammadi, who lives in Oslo, Norway, said medical examiners had previously recommended he be transferred to Tehran but the decision was put on hold. He blamed Iran’s intelligence agency.
“Now I am relieved. I can breathe easy,” he told the AP news agency in a message.
What is known about Mohammadi’s condition?
Mohammadi suffered two suspected heart attacks in Zanjan prison, one on March 1 and the other on 1 May.
The 54-year-old human rights campaigner was taken to hospital for treatment, but was kept under constant observation.
Her husband said in a social media post on Saturday that her condition is critical. Rahmani said his wife’s blood pressure had dropped drastically and she was having trouble speaking.
His Paris-based lawyer Chirin Ardakani posted a photo of Mohammadi in a hospital bed, adding that he had lost 20 kilograms (44 lb) of weight in prison, but that he was currently “in the hands of his medical team.”
According to Mohammadi’s brother Hamidreja, he had a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lungs) before his latest imprisonment in December 2025.
Amnesty International said in a statement in early May that since his imprisonment, Mohammadi has suffered from chest pain, fluctuating blood pressure, severe headaches, dizziness, nausea and double vision.
At the time, Amnesty compared Mohammadi’s denial of specialized medical care to “torture”.
Why was Mohammadi in jail?
The Iranian government recently arrested Mohammadi in December 2025 after he denounced the Islamic republic at the funeral of a human rights lawyer.
She was on temporary release from Iran’s notorious Evin prison on medical grounds when she made the comments.
In February 2026, a court sentenced Mohammadi to an additional seven and a half years in prison for conspiracy and propaganda activities.
He was arrested and jailed more than a dozen times. He was first jailed in 1998 for criticizing the Iranian government.
Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison for her work advancing women’s rights and campaigning to abolish the death penalty.
This documentary, co-produced by Narges Mohammadi and released in 2023, shows his fight for freedom in Iran and his experiences of torture in prison.
Edited by: Carl Sexton