DUBAI/OSLO - Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday (Nov 6) in protest against what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported.
Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture.
HRANA said authorities had not let the 51-year-old go to hospital for heart and lung treatment last week because she had refused to wear a mandatory head scarf for the visit. The news agency did not name its sources. "The requirement that female inmates must wear a hijab in order to be hospitalised, is inhumane and morally unacceptable," the committee said."Mohammadi has gone on a hunger strike to protest against the authorities' failure to address her demands, including their refusal to transfer her to a specialist hospital," HRANA reported.
Mohammadi has been arrested more than a dozen times in her life and this is her third time in Evin prison since 2012.
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