Dubai . Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Mohammadi in Iran has undergone a complex surgery in which part of a bone in her right leg was removed due to fear of cancer. However, according to rights groups, Nargis was sent back to jail just two days after the surgery, raising concerns about her health. A letter signed by more than 40 rights groups sent to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) calls for Nargis to be immediately released on medical leave from her prison sentence on charges that have long attracted international attention. Criticism is coming from.
This letter is being seen as an attempt to increase pressure on Iran for the release of Nargis. The Nobel Committee has been campaigning to put pressure on Iran for Nargis’s release since she awarded her the Peace Prize last year. The letter sent on Monday said, “We call on the Iranian authorities to stop criminalizing human rights and “We urge you to avoid imprisoning human rights activists, journalists and writers if their health is not good.” Iran’s Embassy in the United Nations did not immediately respond to the letter.
At the same time, Iran’s state media, which has not paid any attention to the campaign launched in the past for Nargis’s release, has also not published any news on the letter. Nargis, 52, is serving a total jail sentence of 13 years and nine months on charges of collusion with anti-state elements and propaganda against the government of Iran. Despite being arrested several times and spending long periods behind bars, he has continued his campaign. According to the letter, Nargis suffered multiple heart attacks during her stay in jail and had to undergo emergency surgery in 2022.
In early November, Nargis’s lawyer said that doctors had confirmed a lesion on a bone in her right leg, which they suspected could be cancer. After this, his surgery was done on Thursday. “Nargis was transferred back to jail just two days after the surgery against medical advice,” the letter said. “Nargis’s legal team’s request to release her on medical leave and suspend her sentence was also ignored.” It said, “Years of imprisonment and months of solitary confinement have seriously affected Nargis’s health, leaving her with multiple health complications that were not addressed in the short period she spent in the hospital Can go.
