Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released from prison on a temporary sentence suspension and transferred to Tehran Pars Hospital, where she is receiving treatment from her own medical team. The move, announced Sunday by the Narges Mohammadi Foundation — a body run by her family — came after weeks of urgent appeals as her health deteriorated sharply inside Zanjan prison, a facility in northwestern Iran where she had been serving her sentence.

Mohammadi, 54, had been found unconscious by fellow inmates in March following a suspected heart attack, one of at least two such episodes she has suffered this year. She had spent ten days hospitalised in Zanjan, but her family said she was not receiving adequate care there. Her lawyer, Paris-based Chirinne Ardakani, said Mohammadi has lost approximately 20 kilograms since her most recent imprisonment, has difficulty speaking, and is barely recognisable. Her husband, Taghi Rahmani, who lives in Paris, described her general condition as