Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Amnesty International has accused Iran of torturing Kurdish woman political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian and called upon readers to take urgent action by sending appeals to the country’s Head of Judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi.The organization said agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of Iran tortured Jalalian by “deliberately denying her health care to coerce her into providing a videotaped ‘confession’”.“This intentional denial of health care is...

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian who was abruptly transferred from Kermanshah Prison to Yazd Prison on November 10, for no apparent reason, is still being held in quarantine without the right to call or visit her family. A relative of Jalalian has told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "since Ms Jalalian was transferred to Yazd prison, she has only managed to make a...

Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, was transferred to Yazd Prison, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to this source, Zeynab Jalalian made her family a two-minute phone call yesterday, November 10, that she had been transferred to Yazd Prison while being beaten, threatened and verbally abused along the way. On November 10, security agents informed...

Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian has been held in a solitary cell in Kerman for two and a half months. She was transferred from the quarantine of Qarchak prison in Varamin to Kerman Central Prison on June 25, 2020. During a telephone call with her family a few days ago, she informed them that the prison authorities had reportedly promised her a transfer to Khoy...

In an interview with Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), a member of Zeynab Jalalian's family announced the possibility that this Kurdish political prisoner may be transferred to Kerman Prison. Zeynab Jalalian went on a hunger strike on June 20, demanding her return to Khoy Prison or transfer to Evin Prison, as well as access to medical treatment after being diagnosed with COVID 19."Yesterday, a person...

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian was transferred from the quarantine ward of Qarchak Prison to an unknown location on Thursday, June 25, 2020, on the sixth day of her hunger strike, and there is no news on her fate. The Kurdish political prisoner has been on a hunger strike since June 20, demanding her return to Khoy prison or transfer to Evin prison. In an interview with...

Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner in the quarantine ward of Qarchak Prison, has been on hunger strike since this morning. Her request is to be returned to Khoy Prison or transferred to Evin Prison. The political prisoner, who was transferred from Khoy Prison to Qarchak Prison on May 10, has also announced that she would go on a hunger strike in the coming days...

Imporsoned lawyer Soheila Hijab has been on a hunger strike since yesterday in protest to her continued detention in Qarchak Prison and not being transferred to Evin Prison. She also called for an end to the pressure exerted on her family by the security forces. Zeynab Jalalian, who was transferred from Khoy Prison to Qarchak Prison on May 10, has also announced that she will...

Zeynab Jalalian was transferred to a hospital outside prison, an informed source told in an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "The political prisoner was transferred from Qarchak Prison to a hospital outside the prison under strict security measures and was examined by specialists who diagnosed her with Qovid-19 and confirmed that CT Scan results showed damage to the coronary artery and formation...