Narges Mohammadi returned to prison “despite needing medical care”

"Narges Mohammadi was returned to prison. Narges Mohammadi needed care, according to the treating doctors. Her treatment process had not reached an appropriate point. Judicial and security authorities are responsible for her health. Pressure to return her to prison had begun three days ago."

These five sentences summarize the status of the medical case of Narges Mohammadi, the vice president of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, as stated by her husband, Taghi Rahmani, on Facebook.

Narges Mohammadi, the 2018 winner of the American Physical Society's Sakharov Prize, was sentenced in 2009 to five years in prison on charges of gathering and colluding against national security, five years in prison on charges of membership in the "Human Rights Defenders Association," and another year in prison on charges of propaganda against the regime, for a total of 11 years in prison. This sentence was implemented in May 2012.

But three years later, charges of collaborating with ISIS were added to her case – a charge that, according to her brother, came after Narges Mohammadi opposed the execution of several Sunni prisoners.

In the fall of 2016, Judge Salavati added 10 years in prison to his sentence for founding the Legam group (an acronym for the Step-by-Step Abolition of the Execution).

Neither the favorable opinion of the prison doctors nor the treating doctors has led to Narges Mohammadi's conditional release, nor has the legal opinion of the Supreme Court of Iran convinced the judge in the case to conditionally release the 2011 winner of the Swedish Government and Living History Foundation Award.

Now, by raising the citizenship rights of his wife Narges Mohammadi, Taghi Rahmani is asking Iranian judicial and government officials to grant conditional release to the 2009 winner of the Italian "Alexander Langer Change for Equality" award, at least for the need for medical care.

In previous years, neither this family's request nor numerous requests from organizations such as Amnesty International, the International Federation of Human Rights Defenders, and Human Rights Watch, nor the Twitter storm of more than 100,000 supporters of Narges Mohammadi's release in 2016, have led to Narges Mohammadi's conditional release.

Source: Radio Farda