Zeynab Jalalian Archives - KHRN

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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March 1, 2024

Zeynab Jalalian urges Iranians to boycott elections

Zeynab Jalalian, Iran's longest-serving and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence, has written a letter from Yazd prison, urging the Iranian people to abstain from voting in the

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February 27, 2024

Zeynab Jalalian enters 17th year of unlawful imprisonment

Zeynab Jalalian, Iran's longest-serving and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence in Yazd prison, marked her seventeenth year in prison yesterday. Throughout her imprisonment,

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