‘A return to prison is always looming’: Iran nobel laureate recounts torture in jail and hopes for the future

Narges Mohammadi after her release. She said her most painful doubts were about the price her children had paid while she was detained in prison. Photograph: Narges Mohammadi Foundation

The human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has described being beaten so severely by Iranian security agents that she required two brain scans, before being held in solitary confinement for two months despite her grave injuries.

In an interview with the Guardian, the 54-year-old Nobel peace prize laureate said that during her arrest in December, security agents “inflicted extremely severe blows to my head and body.