Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was rushed from a prison in northwestern Iran to a hospital in Zanjan on Friday after losing consciousness twice due to severe drops in blood pressure. The 52-year-old, who has serious heart, lung, and blood pressure conditions, suffered a major heart attack in late March and was subsequently denied access to her cardiologist, according to her foundation. Her family says the emergency transfer — which prosecutors in Zanjan are blocking doctors from upgrading into a formal suspension of her sentence — may be a "desperate last-minute action that has come too late," and are urgently calling for her transfer to specialists in Tehran who treated her following emergency surgery in 2022. Mohammadi, who was re-arrested in December 2024 after continuing her activism during medical leave from a previous 13-year sentence, received her Nobel Prize in absentia, with her children accepting the award in Norway.