Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Zeynab Jalalian moved to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with one of her sisters in 1999. She initially joined the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and in 2003, after the establishment of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), became a member of its women’s branch. She is Iran's longest-serving and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence. Throughout her imprisonment, Jalalian has been denied the right to...

Arrest Ghader Mohammadzadeh was arrested along with Mohammad Amin Abdollahi by security forces in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, on 20 December 2005. After several months of being held in harsh conditions in solitary confinement cells at the Ministry of Intelligence detention centres in Mahabad and Orumiyeh in West Azerbaijan Province, where they were subjected to pressure and torture aimed at extracting forced confessions, the duo were...

Khaled Zamani (Sadegh Zamani) is married and a father of four. Arrest Zamani was arrested by security forces in Qatur in Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, on 30 June 2008 and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Khoy. He was subjected to physical and psychological torture for several weeks to extract forced confessions and was later transferred to Maku Prison. Judicial Process Branch 1 of the...