May 18, 2026 4:30 PM
Iranian Nobel laureate discharged from hospital and sent home, family say
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been discharged from a cardiac care unit and sent home, weeks after being transferred from prison to hospital following a suspected heart attack, a foundation run by her family said on Monday. Mohammadi, 54, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison for her campaign to advance women's rights and abolish the death penalty in Iran. She was sentenced to a new prison term, the foundation said in February this year, in the build-up to th...