Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi has been discharged from a Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in Tehran and sent home, according to a statement by her foundation.

Mohammadi was taken to a hospital from a prison in Zanjan, some 330 kilometers west of the capital, Tehran,at the beginning of May. At the time, her brother, Hamidreza Mohammadi, told RFE/RLs Radio Farda that she was "on the brink of death." The family subsequently moved her, at their own expense, to a hospital in Tehran.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2024 for her fight for women's rights in Iran, Mohammadi has spent much of the last decade behind bars as a result of her work and in, December 2025, wasarrested againduring a memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

This was followed by a 7-1/2-year prison sentence. The family say she was denied medical care in prison and that conditions there were directly linked to her health problems, which included heart and blood pressure issues.

While my mother has been discharged from the CCU at Tehran Pars Hospital, her recovery demands strict medical supervision outside prison walls, Mohammadis daughter, Kiana Rahmani, said in a statement.

Returning her to detention is 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 added.

The commander of Iran's police force says that, since the beginning of the war, around "6,500" people have been arrested on charges he called "treason and espionage."

Ahmad Reza Radan claimed that 567 of these people were associated with "hypocrisy, evildoers, and counterrevolutionary groups."

Radan also said that the "arrest of enemy soldiers and traitors," which he said began during country-wide protests in January, was still ongoing.

Amnesty International and other human rights groups say Tehran has sharply increased its use of the death penalty in the wake of the January protests and the outbreak of war with Israel and the United States on February 28.