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Family fears for jailed Iranian Nobel Peace laureate's life if she's not moved to a Tehran hospital
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Family fears for jailed Iranian Nobel Peace laureate's life if she's not moved to a Tehran hospital

The Independent·Sarah El Deeb·27 days ago
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Imprisoned Nobel Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was being examined by Iranian government-appointed medical experts Wednesday for the second time since she was hospitalized last week, a move her brother said he hopes would lead to her transfer to a hospital in Tehran . Mohammadi was rushed on Friday from prison to a local hospital in the northwest Iranian town of Zanjan after she fell unconscious. She remains in critical condition, and her family says security officials have so far prevented her transfer to the capital where she could get better treatment. Her brother Hamidreza Mohammadi, who is based in Oslo , said the medical examiners had previously recommended her transfer, but the decision was blocked. “The problem is that somewhere in the system, the intelligence agency has the upper hand and they are the ones who are controlling everything,” he told The Associated Press.…

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