Kurdistan Human Rights Network

"The Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian was diagnosed with COVID-19 at Qarchak Prison.", Ali Jalalian, Zeynab Jalalian's father, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to Jalalian's father, Zeynab Jalalian was transferred to the prison's medical centre on the night of Tuesday, June 4 due to severe shortness of breath. However, prison officials refused to transfer her to the hospital on the orders of the Ministry...

Ali Jalalian, the father of Zeynab Jalalian, has told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that she was being held in quarantine at Qarchak Varamin Prison. He also said that he had been informed by text message last week that his daughter's case had been sent to Branch 101 of the Tehran Criminal Court, but he was unaware of the reason for the new...

Political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian was taken to the Qarchak Prison of Varamin on Saturday, May 2, 2020. She was abruptly transferred out of the Prison of Khoy on Monday, April 27, without anyone knowing where she was taken to. However, in response to the enquiries made by the family of this political prisoner, Khoy prison officials announced the possibility of opening a new case against...

Zeynab Jalalian, a political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment who is held at Khoy prison, was transferred to an unknown location by security forces on April 28. She suffers from conjunctive intestinal infections and internal bleeding.. She suffers from conjunctive intestinal infections and internal bleeding.  "This morning, a team of security forces took Zeynab Jalalian to Khoy prison without giving any specific reason.”, an informed source told the...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Zeynab Jalalian a political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment who is held at Khoy prison, is deprived of the right to medical treatment and furlough. A reliable source told KHRN that "Unfortunately, the health condition of Zeynab Jalalian -who has been imprisoned for the past 12 years- is deteriorating. This political prisoner has been suffering from pterygium (a pinkish, triangular...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Zeynab Jalalian, a political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment who is held at Khoy prison, was transferred to dentistry clinic last week after waiting for two months to get her teeth and gum infections treated. She also visited her family this week after three months of being deprived of visitation rights. "Zeynab had requested to be taken to a dentistry...

Authorities of Khoy Prison have seized the personal belongings including blankets, personal clothes, books and booklets of the Kurdish political prisoner known as Zeynab Jalalian without providing any specific reason. “Several inspectors of Khoy Prison visited Women's Ward on the morning of Nov 28, 2018, inspected Zeynab Jalalian's beds and seized all her personal belongings including blankets, clothes, books and booklets. Giving her several blankets,...

On July 30, following the announcement of a three-day hunger strike by Zeynab Jalalian along with nine prisoners of ordinary offences in protest to being deprived of weekly visits and basic prison facilities, one of the websites linked to the Ministry of Intelligence denied the strike's news in an interview with a person called "Mostafa Moloodi”who introduced himself as Zeynab Jalalian’s lawyer. However, in a...

Zeynab Jalalian, along with nine prisoners of ordinary offences, went on hunger strike in protest to being deprived of weekly visits and basic prison facilities. Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that prison authorities had discovered a mobile phone following an inspection of the prisoners’ section during the past few days. The prison guard has questioned Zeynab Jalalian and nine other prisoner several times...