Zeynab Jalalian Archives - KHRN

May 18, 2026

Authorities continue to block urgent medical transfer for Zeynab Jalalian

Zeynab Jalalian, the longest-held and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence in Iran, is being denied transfer to specialist medical facilities despite a sharp deterioration in her

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March 13, 2026

German MP assumes sponsorship of Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian

A member of Germany’s federal parliament has taken on the political sponsorship of Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is entering her nineteenth year of imprisonment in Iran. Cansu

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November 20, 2025

Iran blocks medical care for Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian

Zeynab Jalalian, Iran's longest-serving and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence, is nearing her 19th year in detention amid renewed concerns that officials at Yazd Central Prison

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October 8, 2025

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian returned to prison a day after surgery

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is serving a life sentence, has been returned to Yazd Prison only a day after undergoing fibroid embolisation surgery, despite her deteriorating

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September 16, 2025

Rights groups, prominent figures urge urgent medical care for Zeynab Jalalian

An open letter from the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and REDRESS, signed by 22 human rights organisations and 13 individuals, calls on Iran to provide urgent medical treatment to Zeynab

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February 25, 2025

Zeynab Jalalian, enduring 17 years of incarceration

Zeynab Jalalian, Iran's longest-serving and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence, marks 17 years behind bars. Born in 1982 in the village of Dim Qeshlaq in Maku, West Azerbaijan

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September 30, 2024

Zeynab Jalalian denied family visits, forced into CT scan in handcuffs, shackles

The Ministry of Intelligence has banned family visits to Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is serving a life sentence in Yazd Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)

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August 4, 2024

Zeynab Jalalian still deprived of medical services in Yazd Central Prison

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is serving a life sentence, is enduring her seventeenth year of imprisonment in Yazd Central Prison amid severe health conditions and a lack of medical

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July 3, 2024

Zeynab Jalalian denied medical care, pressured to ‘repent’

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is serving her 17th year in Yazd Central Prison, has been transferred to the prison infirmary in recent weeks due to severe pain in her right side.

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