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By Jomana Karadsheh, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN

(CNN) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is on hunger strike whilst being held in detention by Iranian authorities, according to a statement from her foundation.

In the statement shared exclusively with CNN, the Paris-based foundation, which is run by her family, says it received credible information that Mohammadi began her strike on Monday “to protest her unlawful detention and the dire conditions in which she is being held, realities faced by numerous political prisoners currently held in Iran.”

Ali Rahmani, Mohammadi’s son, said in a statement that he was “deeply worried” about his mother and everyone else detained by the regime.

“What is happening in our country is a crime against humanity,” Rahmani said, adding that before her arrest, his mother was “calling for solidarity, unity, and peace.”

Mohammadi was arrested in December by security and police forces during a memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer and human rights activist who was found dead in his office.

She was arrested in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city.

The foundation said that due to Mohammadi’s medical history, which includes heart attacks, chest pain, high blood pressure, as well as spinal disc issues and other illnesses, “her continued detention is extremely dangerous and a violation of human rights laws.”

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has also been restricted access to her family, the Foundation said, and has only had one phone call with her brother on December 14, with no contact since then.

Taghi Rahmani, Mohammadi’s husband, said authorities were demanding that when his wife make calls, she says all is well. “But the Narges we know refuses to submit to such pressure; she insists on speaking her truth,” he said.

“They also know that if she is released, she will immediately resume her activism, as she views rejoining the people her duty,” Taghi added. “Narges will never be silenced, and it is her voice that they fear most.”

A regime critic

One of Iran’s most prominent human rights activists, Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023.

She has spent most of the past two decades as an inmate of Tehran’s Evin prison — notorious for detaining critics of the regime.

In December 2024, Iranian authorities suspended her prison term for three weeks to allow her to recover from a surgery to remove part of a bone in her lower right leg, where doctors had discovered a lesion suspected of being cancerous.

Mohammadi was expected to return to prison soon afterward, but she had remained on furlough until December’s arrest. She has been sentenced to multiple prison terms totaling 36 years on charges that include acting against national security and spreading propaganda, according to the Narges Foundation.

Supporters say she’s a political prisoner, detained for working to advance women’s rights and democracy.

“In these difficult days for our country, Iran, we ask human rights organizations, activists, and the global community to think of the political prisoners in detention centers and put practical actions on the agenda to save their lives,” the Foundation said Wednesday.

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By Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

(CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney detailed to Minnesota to help handle the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities has been removed from her post after telling a judge that the job “sucks” because of the crushing workload and the government’s apparent inability to comply with court orders.

The attorney, Julie Le, was sent back to her job at ICE, according to a source familiar with the matter.

In an extraordinarily candid exchange with a federal judge on Tuesday, Le, who had been asked to explain why the administration was not promptly complying with a slew of court orders stemming from immigration cases she’s handling, admitted that the government did not have enough lawyers on the ground to adequately keep up with Operation Metro Surge and that trying to get errors fixed is like “pulling teeth.”

“They are overwhelmed and they need help, so I, I have to say, stupidly (volunteered),” she told US District Judge Jerry Blackwell, who is threatening to hold her and another lawyer in contempt for repeated violations of orders he’s issued in immigration cases.

“Sometime I wish you would just hold me in contempt, your honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. I work days and night just because people (are) still in there,” Le said.

“And, yes, procedure in place right now sucks. I’m trying to fix it,” she continued. “I am here with you, your honor. What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need.”

Le and the other administration lawyers working on immigration cases in Minnesota since the crackdown began have been facing intense scrutiny from the judges there over a slew of missteps in the cases. Last week, the chief judge of the state’s federal trial-level court said ICE “has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence” and specifically called out nearly 100 court orders he said had been violated in recent weeks.

Among those orders are ones requiring the government to immediately release immigrant detainees whom judges determined were being held unlawfully in Minnesota or Texas, where many of them were flown after being arrested in the Twin Cities. Judges, including Blackwell, were also frustrated by release conditions ICE had imposed on some immigrants since the court had not specifically allowed the agency to fashion such conditions.

“It takes 10 e-mails to get a release condition to be corrected,” Le told Blackwell on Tuesday. “It take two escalation and a threat that I will walk out for that to be corrected.”

Though Blackwell said he thought Le and Justice Department attorney Ana Voss, who is also facing a contempt threat, were “working in good faith and under difficult circumstances,” he warned them that “a court order is not advisory and it is not conditional.”

“It is not something that any agency can treat as optional while it decides how or whether to comply with the court order,” the judge said.

“Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all, is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign,” Blackwell added.

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By Jack Guy, CNN

(CNN) — Claire Foy has revealed that she had to change her diet after finding out that she was housing some unwanted guests.

Speaking on the “Table Manners” podcast on Wednesday, the “The Crown” star told hosts Jessie and Lennie Ware that she had given up drinking caffeine, before going on to explain why.

“Quite a few years ago, I had parasites. Gross,” she said.

“I kept losing weight and I didn’t know what was going on,” said Foy, 41, who said she thinks she picked up the parasites in Morocco, and had them for “at least five years” before she found out.

“They travel as a pair, I got told by the doctor. Gross, absolutely rank. It’s disgusting,” said Foy, who is best known for playing Queen Elizabeth II in the hit Netflix series “The Crown,” as well as for roles in the BBC dramas “Wolf Hall” and “A Very British Scandal.”

She then made changes to her diet to treat the parasites, she said, as she “didn’t want to take really hardcore antibiotics.”

“I took all this little gross stuff, and part of that was giving up caffeine,” she said, admitting that it wasn’t easy to do so, as someone who used to drink “at least 15 cups of tea a day.”

Foy went on to reveal that she also restricts her diet due to an autoimmune condition.

“This is my big secret, I feel like I’m in ‘The Traitors’ or something, and I’m letting everyone know that I’m related to someone,” she joked.

“I don’t actually eat gluten or sugar … except when I go out for dinner.”

Foy said that she is “very strict but I love falling off the wagon when I’m out for dinner,” adding that she isn’t allergic.

“It doesn’t have an impact on me. It’s just because I have an autoimmune condition, so I should avoid anything which causes more inflammation,” she said.

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