Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has returned home after being discharged from hospital, her foundation announced.

Mohammadi, 54, was released from Pars Hospital in Tehran on Sunday, the Narges Foundation said on Monday. She was transferred from prison to the hospital in early May after suffering two episodes of loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis.

The foundation's statement said Mohammadi is “scheduled to follow up on her medical complications with her medical team through hospital visits and daily outpatient physiotherapy over the coming weeks.” Doctors have stressed that it is “vital she remains under close medical observation.”

Mohammadi was imprisoned in December after being arrested during a visit to the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad. In February, she was sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Her lawyer said six years of that sentence were for “collusion to commit crimes.”

Her family alleged in February that her health sharply declined due to a beating she endured during her December arrest, claiming multiple men kicked her all over her body. In late March, as she began her sentence, she suffered a heart attack.

Her daughter and co-president of the Narges Foundation, Kiana Rahmani, said in a statement on Monday that returning Mohammadi to prison would be “a death sentence.” “We must ensure she remains free, all baseless charges against her are permanently dropped, and the persecution ends. Human rights activism is not a crime, and no advocate should ever be imprisoned for it,” Rahmani said.

Mohammadi won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. An engineer by training, she has been arrested 13 times and convicted on five occasions, accumulating sentences exceeding 30 years in prison.

Source: www.aljazeera.com