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 Mozaffar Sakanvand Lakran was arrested by security forces Showt District in Maku on 24 September 2012 and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in the city. He was held in this security detention facility for about a month and subjected to physical and psychological torture to extract forced confessions. Afterward, he was moved to Maku Central Prison. Judicial Process Sakanvand's court session took place in Branch...