Only temporarily

Nobel Prize winner Mohammadi released

The Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been temporarily released. Her prison sentence has been suspended for three weeks for medical reasons, Mohammadi's lawyer announced. The 52-year-old had a tumor removed.

Although the tumor was benign, she still has to be examined every three months. At the end of October, Mohammadi was granted a long-desired stay in hospital. This was nine weeks late, wrote her husband Taghi Rahmani. Human rights activists had long accused the Iranian judiciary of denying Mohammadi adequate medical care in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. The 52-year-old also suffers from heart failure.