Iranian regime plans silent killing of the cancer of the Nobel Peace Prize winner

Iranian regime plans silent killing of the cancer of the Nobel Peace Prize winner

The family of the detained human rights activist narges mohamadi Iranian regime accuses her "slow killing" by refusing her a vital operation that is necessary to confirm your cancer diagnosis.

allegations of the danger of life

In an exclusive explanation of CNN on Monday, the family expressed that the Iranian authorities "endanger their lives" by refusing them to access a biopsy that is necessary for a "clear diagnosis" of bone cancer.

Current medical situation

According to her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, doctors recently discovered a "bone lesion in her right leg on Sunday, which looks suspicious of cancer." Over the past two decades, Mohammadi has been detained most of the time in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, which is known for the detention of critics of the Iranian regime. In 2023 she received the

state failure and responsibility

"The government of the Islamic Republic is jeopardizing Narges Mohammadi and effectively strives for a 'silent killing' without taking on direct responsibility," explained the Narges Foundation led by her family. The family warned that any further delay in providing treatments for Mohammadi could be "fatal". The activist had to wait nine weeks for the last transfer to the hospital, in which the potentially carcinogenic lesion was found.

urgent call for medical treatment

Your family and her lawyer are now calling for “immediate medical holiday permit” to both carry out the biopsy and to treat a number of other health problems with which she has to fight. According to her lawyer, a recently carried out MRI showed a deterioration in arthritis and intervertebral disc disease, while the doctors also requested a further angiography of a heart attack that she had suffered in 2021.

follow years of isolation

years of successive detention and phases of longer solitary confinement have "significantly impaired Mohammadi's health, which left her conditions that cannot be remedied by a short, incomplete hospital stay," emphasized her family.

international support and reactions

The Iranian authorities announced CNN: "Unfortunately we do not comment on human rights issues." High personalities such as former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have also spoken out for the release of Mohammadi. "By refusing medical care you need, the Iranian prison authorities slowly kill the detained activist and Nobel Prize winner Narges Mohammadi," warned Clinton in a post on her official social media last Friday.

commitment to human rights despite the detention

Despite her detention, Mohammadi tirelessly campaigns for human rights. It is intensively committed to the rights of Iranian women and calls for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Gaza.