Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, was once again deprived of weekly visits with her family by the Ministry of Intelligence. Meanwhile, Khoy Prison authorities still deny her access to the necessary medical care. "On Monday, December 24, Khoy Prison officials informed her that she would be deprived of weekly visits with her family until further notice as instructed by the...

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...

Zeynab Jalalian, The Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, published an open letter to the public in which he explained her deprivation of medical and treatment facilities. In her letter, the Kurdish political prisoner describes how she has repeatedly been challenged by prison authorities for several years in addition to being deprived of medical treatment by the order of authorities who fabricated a medical...

Despite the deterioration of the health status of the Kurdish political prisoner known as Zeynab Jalalian, sentenced to life imprisonment at the Khoy Prison, Prison authorities are still denying her access to medical treatment. A source close to this political prisoner, who did not want to be disclosed his identity for security reasons, told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "the health condition of Zeynab...