Zeynab Jalalian

<p>She is from the village of Diem Gheshlagh in Maku, after her arrest she was condemned to execution for “Combating the sacred through membership in PJAK.” This sentence was reduced to life in prison later. Activists and human rights organizations have condemned the verdict, torture, conditions of incarceration and inattention to medical care.</p>

<coverage-outsourcing id='26876'> <reference source='https://justice4iran.org/persian/j4iran-activities/kurdish-womens-rights-activist-zeinab-jalalian/'> Zeinab Jalalian joined PJAK in this year. According to the “ Justice for Iran” organization, she was trying to help Kurdish women in cooperation with PJAK. Most of her activities in the organization were educational. She never had any militant or armed activity in PJAK. She told one of her cellmates that she wasn't carrying a weapon when she was arrested and she has never been armed. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27724'> On or around 10 March 2008, she was arrested at “Ghazanchi” checkpoint near Kamyaran city. According to a report published seven years later by ‘Justice for Iran’, she was subjected to beatings during her arrest, and was transferred to the detention centre in the trunk of the intelligence officials’ vehicle. Furthermore, according to this report she was subjected to additional beatings while in custody, and was kept in solitary confinement for months, having been threatened with rape, flogged, and thrown against the wall. A copy of this report has been published in the evidence section of this page. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27726'> According to one of the prisoners who agreed to share her information to the “Justice for Iran” organization, in the detention facility of Kermanshah intelligent ministry, she had heard Zeinab Jalalian's suffering under torture and her head being hit hard to the walls of the cell. After days of hearing Zeinab's torture and being traumatized, this prisoner asked one of the guards: what this woman has done that u are torturing her this much and the guard answered: “she is a dangerous Pejak fighter and we won't stop until she confesses”. According to “Justice for Iran” Zeinab Jillian told her family that she was held for months in solitary confinement, interrogators were threatening her to rape. officers in prison were hitting the bottom of her feet with lashes and hit her head to the walls in the interrogation room in order to force her to confess.on of the officers hit her head to the wall so hard that it caused her forehead to crack, internal bleeding and eye swelling. Zeinab Jalalian told one her cellmates about these tortures: “when they whipped the bottom of my feet, they transferred me back to my cell unconscious, in my cell, they forced me to walk the length of the cell on my wounded feet and after that, they would hit me again with lashes.” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22335'> Zeinab Jalalian was transferred from Kermanshah’s intelligent ministry's detention facility to Kermanshah's behavioral correction center after few weeks from her arrest. According to the reports by Zainab's cellmates, after her transfer, a group of intelligent service officers would take her out of the prison and brought her back in few days with torture marks visible on her body. One of the guards from Kermanshah’s correction center and a prisoner with drug-related charges have stated that based on a letter from intelligent ministry to correction center officers, Zeinab Jalalian was banned to contact any other prisoners. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27725'> Judge Moradi, head of branch 1 of Kermanshah’s revolutionary court has sentenced Zeinab Jalalian without her lawyer's presence to execution by hanging in Kermanshah's correction center. In the verdict, he cited the article 186 and article 46 of Islamic Penal Code and article 1 of “act aggravating the sentences of crimes of weapon and arm smuggling.” Zeinab Zalalian’s accusations were: armed confrontation against the Islamic Republic of Iran by being a member of the Pejak group, carrying and keeping unauthorized weapons and propaganda against the system. Her sentence was issued under “Enmity against God” law. The picture of her verdict has been registered in the evidence section of this page. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22333'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/Verdict.pdf'> The branch 4 of Kermanshah Appeal Court rejected the appeal request on this date. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22337'> She explained her status in a letter to human rights organizations. She writes in this letter: "I am a 27-year-old Kurdish girl who has been sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Court. At this time I am ill due to severe torture. I have not been allowed a lawyer, and I was sentenced to death in less than a few minutes. They did not even allow me to defend myself. They told me: > Because you are a Mohareb, you are not entitled to defend yourself. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22334'> Zeinab was transferred to ward 209 of Evin prison. According to the report by Justice for Iran, during her detention at this facility, she was regularly threatened, insulted, and coerced to falsely admit to collaborating with the militant wing of PJAK in a broadcast interview.In protest of these actions and tortures by interrogators, Zeinab went on hunger strike twice in Kermanshah’s detention and Evin prison. One of the intelligent service authorities by the organization name of “Haji Qorban” who were also in charge of Farzad Kamangar and Shirin Alamholi’s interrogations met zeinab’s father and mother in Tehran and threatened them that Zeinab would be executed if she doesn't agree to cooperate and record a TV confession. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22344'> Her lawyer requested authorities, amnesty or reduction of sentence for Zeinab Jalalian. At the same time, some efforts were made for appeal. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26969'> After Khalil Bahramian's efforts to represent her case failed due to the resistance of the judicial system, Mohammad Sharif managed to represent her. Prior to this, Fariborz Ensanimehr and Azhdar Panjazar Habashi were among her lawyers. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22336'> Was transferred to Kermanshah prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='335'> Defense attorney Mohammad Sharif confirmed that her death sentence had been reduced to life in prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='336'> Suffering from intestinal infection, reports say. Prison officials are refusing to provide medical care. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='337'> Reports indicate that Zeinab is suffering from intestinal bleeding because of numerous hunger strikes in solitary confinement. She is also suffering from vision problems because of the blows to her head during interrogation. She lacks basic health care. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='338'> Dizelabad Prison officials in Kermanshah refuse to grant furlough on health grounds, even though she's on the verge of blindness </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='339'> It was reported that Zeinab could be transferred from Dizelabad Prison to the prison in her hometown of Makou </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22345'> In a telephone call, she told her family that she is losing vision in one eye </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='340'> Was transferred to the prison in Khoi, against her wishes. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6460'> Justice For Iran and Redress registered a complaint against the Iranian regime, on her behalf, with the United Nation’s Arbitrary Arrests Working Group </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6461'> The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Arrest demanded the immediate release. and compensation of damages according to international principles, for Zeinab Jalalian, from the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to a vote published by the working group, depriving Zeinab Jalalian of her freedom and her arbitrary arrest, are against the Human Rights Charter and the principles of international civil rights. With this vote they charged Iran with the task of legal pursuit of those in charge of the case against the Kurdish activist </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8208'> Amir Salar Davoudi, her lawyer, told the International Campaign for Human Rights, that in view of her vision and eye condition, the authorities have allowed her a medical leave to a city better with medical facilities. He claimed that the authorities had helped until now but the test results have been inconclusive as to the cause of the malady </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10012'> Amir Salar Davoodi, her lawyer, told The International Human Rights Campaign In Iran, that both the Intelligence Ministry and the IRGC are pressuring Zeinab Jalalian give an interview and that she refused to give an interview in front of the lawyers and an independent journalist. He added, that you cannot respecting the prisoners rights should not be conditional upon the giving of an interview </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9772'> Amnesty International announced in a statement that her “unjust trial” ended with her sentence of life in prison, and she is now about to go blind. This organization in their statement, demanded that the government of Iran immediately and unconditionally release Ms. Jalalian, and to establish a fair trial without the death sentence. Also, the rights organization demanded an inquest into allegations of torture and to carry out justice against those that may have been involved </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10674'> Amnesty International in Sweden, launched a campaign asking people to not stand silent in the face of the dire condition and predicament of Zeinab Jalalian. Some Swedish artists released a video demanding her freedom </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10759'> Amnesty International picked her as prisoner of the year </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12702'> MAF news reported that in the cold season her eye illness was aggravated that is why sometimes she cannot go out at fresh air recess </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='13466'> International rights and restitutions organizations beseeched the United Nations to intervene, again, in this case </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='14543'> In the eleventh year of the incarceration of Zeinab Jalalian, Golrokh wrote her a letter, you can find the letter, published by HRANA, in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='15296'> She started her refusal of medical help in protest to the prison authorities' attempts to “fill the weekly and monthly doctor’s visit logs” and to “give false reports to international human rights organization.” Her lawyer. Mr. Montazeri, gave the news of Zeinab Jalalian’s medical- care strike, while he criticized the prison authorities that Ms. Jalalian has been deprived of the most basic medical attention for at least, the past two or three years </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='15748'> The Free Women’s Society of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) published a statement asking “all women fighting for the cause of democracy and freedom” to become the voice of Atena and Zeinab Jalalian in society </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18731'> Amnesty International announced in a statement: > Iranian Kurdish woman Zeynab Jalalian, serving a life sentence, is severely ill and requires specialized medical care outside prison. However, the authorities have persistently refused to transfer her to a hospital, apparently to punish her and extract forced “confessions”. In protest, she has been refusing all medications since March 2017. The denial of access to medical care in these circumstances amounts to torture </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18977'> Zeinab Jalalian's father told the International Campaign for Human Rights, that her daughter needs to seek medical attention, outside of the prison, for eye surgery and treatment, but permission for her transfer to a hospital has been denied nor has a medical leave been allowed </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18996'> Zenab Jalalian told Kurdistan's human right channel that after her complaint she was banned from visiting her parents. She also emphasized again that prison authorities forged her medical letter to the medical centers </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20189'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that she is still denied visitation and continues the medicine strike. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21067'> Zeynab Jalalian wrote a letter addressed to Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee and praised their resistance. This letter is registered in the evidence section of Zeynab Jalalian's page. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26970'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/fa/prisoner/4721'> Her lawyer, Amir Salar Davoudi, was sentenced to 15 years in prison </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27115'> <reference source='https://united4iran.org/fa/womenoffreedom'> The graffiti by seven Iranian women political prisoners in San Francisco's Clarion Alley was unveiled and the “In Praise of Women of Freedom” campaign started work. The images of these seven women were painted by Shaghayegh Siroos as part of a campaign by United for Iran in collaboration with IPA. The campaign aims to raise awareness on the situation of women imprisoned in Iran; women who have been imprisoned for their ideas or political or civil activities. The graffiti is located in the famed Clarion Alley, a narrow alley which holds paintings of many artists from around the world, often with political and social content </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27391'> <reference source='https://persian.iranhumanrights.org/1398/08/heart-disease-zeinab-jalalian-in-khoi-prison/'> Zeynab Jalalian suffers from internal and heart diseases, according to her father, Ali Jalalian. The Judiciary had recently accepted to release her on bail but the Intelligence Ministry opposed this which has led to her continued deprivation from bail release </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27763'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A8_%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86.pdf'> In a letter condemning the repressive measures of the Islamic Republic in November 2019, she expressed solidarity with the protesters of these days. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='29392'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/fa/?p=12041'> Amnesty International condemned the continued detention of Zeynab Jalalian by publishing a statement. In this statement, it is stated that Ms. Jalalian was "tortured" during the interrogation and was always deprived of medical services. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='30527'> He was transferred to Qarchak prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='30340'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/fa/?p=12861'> The security agent transferred Zeinab Jalalian from prison to an unknown place. "It seems that a new case has been brought up for her and she has probably been transferred to one of Tehran's detention centers.", Prison officials told her family </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='30846'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-24877/'> Zeinab Jalalian is still being held in quarantine at Qarchak Prison. According to the regulation of keeping prisoners temporarily in this ward, It seems there has been sabotage made. This place is in a worse condition than other parts of the prison, also, this place has new prisoners every day that might be already infected with the coronavirus </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='31014'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/fa/?p=13225'> Mrs. Jalalian was taken to a hospital outside the jail after she became suspicious of infecting Covid-19. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, doctors said she "definitely had been infected by Coronavirus and her lungs are bleeding and damaged". According to the doctor's prescription, she should be kept in a stress-free environment with adequate hygiene, but "she has been returned to the general ward of Qarchak prison." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='31015'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/features/38764'> "My sister's coronavirus test was positive but she is still being kept in a public ward, all the prisoners in this ward are said to have been infected by corona.", Deniz Jalalian (Zeinab Jalalian's sister) told IranWire. She added: > Some prisoners are not willing to take corona tests, because they realize that it would not change their situation and no one would help them to recover. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='31265'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/زینب_جلالیان_سهیلا_حجاب.pdf'> Zeinab Jalalian and Soheila Hijab wrote a mutual letter protesting their custody in Qarchak Prison without separating the defendants. The letter states that "there are many Corona positive patients in this ward, and they are being kept close to healthy people." The letter refers to the unsanitary conditions in the prison as follows: > Health supplies are not distributed here to prevent coronavirus. Also, some prisoners have infectious diseases, and nothing is done to protect the health of prisoners.” In another part of the letter, by calling the Islamic Republic a "terrorist and oppressor government", they added: We have been subjected to physical and psychological torture in the prisons of the Islamic Republic for a long time. We do not recognize the Islamic Republic, and we will never ask them for forgiveness or other demands.” </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='31370'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-25937/'> She was transferred to Kerman prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='32600'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.com/535703'> Zeynab Jalalian, who was transferred to Kerman prison in July, is still being kept in solitary confinement in this prison. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Zeynab Jalalian announced in a phone call with her family that they will continue to hold her in harsh conditions in solitary confinement. She said that the authorities of Kerman prison promised her that if she paid the transfer fee to Khoy prison personally, they would return her to Khoi prison. Despite this, no action has been taken in this regard. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='32859'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3jc4GjS'> She was transferred to Kermanshah prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='33434'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=14650'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, citing an informed source, announced the transfer of Zeynab Jalalian to another location. According to this source, a group of security agents visited the women's ward of Kermanshah Correctional Center and took her from this prison to another place without any explanation. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='33447'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=14669'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Ms. Jalalian informed her family in a phone call that she was transferred to Yazd prison. On the way to Yazd, she was "beaten" by the agents. In the last few months, Ms. Jalalian has been transferred to several prisons, which human rights activists believe: > These measures were meant to torment the prisoner. It should be noted that at the same time as Zeynab Jalalian's deportation, her father received a message that the case was transferred to the first branch of the Yazd Revolutionary Court. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='33756'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=14836'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that Zeynab Jalalian has been kept in quarantine in Yazd prison without the right to make phone calls or visit her family. According to one of Zeynab Jalalian's relatives, "Since Ms. Jalalian was transferred to Yazd prison, she has managed to make a short phone call with her family only once. In this call, she informed her family that she was told by the security of Yazd prison that she will be temporarily deprived of all the rights of a prisoner until she expresses repentance and cooperates with the security interrogators. It is also reported that her father was arrested some time ago by the agents of the Makou Intelligence Department after several interviews with the media and human rights organizations. He spent a night in the Intelligence Department under interrogation, and after being threatened by the interrogators, he was released on bail. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='34601'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/3605/2021/en/'> Amnesty International published a report and wrote: > Iran's Ministry of Intelligence has refused to provide medical services to Mrs. Jalalian to force her to make a televised confession. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='35865'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=15830'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Zeynab Jalalian suffered from shortness of breath and severe coughing after contracting the Covid-19 disease which affected her lungs. The Ministry of Intelligence still opposes her treatment in the hospital. Deprivation of access to medical services has put her in a critical condition. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='38155'> <reference source='https://t.me/kampainhr/10199'> Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners wrote that Zeynab Jalalian, in her 14th year of imprisonment and exile, continues to endure her life sentence without observing the principle of segregating prisoners' crimes. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='38211'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/tv/CaNBaD8qX8P/?utm_medium=copy_link'> Gouzal Hajizadeh, the mother of Zeynab Jalalian, requested to meet her child in a video message. In this video, she says: > I haven't seen Zaynab for fifteen years and they denied her the right to family visits and a lawyer. I am old and I want to see my daughter. I request help from all organizations. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='38212'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=17738'> The security forces went to the family home of Zeynab Jalalian and arrested her mother, Gouzal Hajizadeh. She was released after being transferred to the Makou Intelligence Bureau and interrogated for several hours. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='41311'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35618/'> HRANA wrote that despite suffering from pterygium, kidney and digestive problems, Zeynab Jalalian has been deprived of effective treatment. A source told HRANA that despite the order of the prison infirmary that it is necessary to transfer her to specialized medical centers outside the prison, this has not been done. According to this report, she is kept in the women's ward of Yazd prison without observing the principle of segregation of prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='51215'> <reference source='https://t.me/LaVoixDesPrisonniers/2424'> Dadkhahan Darband reported that during her 15 years in prison, she has not been able to have a visit from her mother. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='52794'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-41813/'> HRANA wrote that Zeynab Jalalian is still in Yazd prison without observing the principle of segregation of crimes. According to this source, despite numerous medical problems such as kidney and digestive diseases and pterygoid disease, she has been deprived of proper medical attention. This informed source also added: > The parents of this political prisoner are not able to visit her in person due to their old age and great distance. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='53340'> <reference source='https://shorturl.at/HJPQV'> Zeynab Jalalian has been threatened and pressured by the interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence in the central prison of Yazd to make forced confessions and express remorse. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, while publishing this news, has written that in the past months, a team of interrogators from the Ministry of Intelligence met Zeynab Jalalian in the central prison of Yazd on several occasions and informed her that her freedom or access to medical services is subject to forced confessions and an expression of regret. Zeynab Jalalian rejected this request and announced that according to the new Islamic Penal Law that was approved in 2013, her continued imprisonment is against the law and she should be released. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='53344'> <reference source='https://t.me/bidarzani/13248'> Bidarzani website, referring to Zeynab Jalalian's frequent transfers in recent years, has written: > Now 1217 days have passed since her torturous transfers in Iranian prisons. She was deprived of the right to treatment for her heart, stomach, and intestinal ailments, necessary eye surgery, and the right to even have one day off and to have an appeal trial for her life imprisonment sentence and new security cases were added to the sum of repression and torture against her. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='53345'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-44119/'> According to the HRANA news agency and according to an informed source, Zeynab Jalalian's eyesight has decreased due to the progression and acuteness of the pterygoid disease. In this report, it is stated that Zeynab Jalalian's parents are not able to visit their child in person due to their old age, and if they do an interview with the media and protest about their child's uncertain condition, they are threatened and harassed by the relevant officials. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='53467'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/4np43fyc'> The security institutions have announced that televised confession and expression of remorse are the conditions for Zeynab Jalalian's access to medical services. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Zeynab Jalalian, in her 16th year of imprisonment in the central prison of Yazd, is still denied access to medical services due to the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence, despite suffering from oral thrush, conjunctivitis, poor eyesight, asthma, kidney and digestive problems. In this report, it is stated that Zeynab Jalalian has been interrogated by a team of interrogators from the Ministry of Intelligence with handcuffs and shackles for the past weeks and threatened with denial of all the basic rights of a prisoner, including access to medical services, until she expresses remorse. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='53964'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-45827/'> She lives in poor health conditions. While referring to Zeynab Jalalian's illnesses and the lack of proper medical treatment, HRANA wrote: "Zeynab Jalalian's condition has caused serious concerns about her health and future and not only exposes the violation of the human rights of this political prisoner but also the alarming situation of other political prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='54824'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2024/01/24/p32200/'> She will go on a hunger strike along with the call of political prisoners "against execution". The Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that Zeynab Jalalian will go on a hunger strike "in protest of the recent executions and in support of the hunger strike of 61 political and ideological prisoners in Evin Prison." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55456'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-46751/'> On the eve of her 17th year of imprisonment, she has been deprived of medical care. HRANA wrote in a report quoting a source close to the family of this political prisoner: > On Tuesday, February 6, while she was supposed to be taken to the Yazd Hospital for the treatment of pterygium, she was not sent to the hospital at the appointed time due to the failure of the prison authorities and that's why the doctor refused to treat her. According to this source, Jalalian is suffering from pterygium disease and due to the progress of this disease, her vision has been impaired severely: > In addition, despite having numerous other medical problems, including kidney and digestive diseases, she has been deprived of proper medical treatment. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='56023'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2024/02/26/p32772/'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network published a report on the condition of Zeynab Jalalian during her years of imprisonment. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='56025'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2024/02/29/p32866/'> According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Zeynab Jalalian, released a message from Yazd prison, asking the people of Iran to refrain from participating in the elections of the Islamic Council and the Assembly of Experts. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='56062'> <reference source='https://t.me/bidarzani/13783'> Zeynab Jalalian released a letter from Yazd prison on the occasion of International Women's Day. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='61472'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2024/07/03/p34855'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that a team of interrogators from the Ministry of Intelligence met her twice at the security office of the central prison in Yazd and asked her to sign a letter of repentance, the text of which was prepared by the Ministry of Intelligence. She was told that if she signed it, her medical treatment and even her parole would be reviewed as soon as possible. According to this report, by refusing to sign this letter, Zeynab Jalalian considered access to medical services as a prisoner's legal right. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='61475'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/23ydxe33'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that in the past few weeks, she was taken to the prison hospital due to severe pain in her right side, and after being examined by a general physician, she was returned to the prison without specialized examinations and definitive treatment. According to this report, she requested to be transferred to medical centers outside the prison to perform the necessary tests in this regard, but due to the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence and despite suffering from several other diseases such as oral thrush, pterygium, asthma, kidney and gastrointestinal problems, she is still deprived of access to medical services. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='61725'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/bw8ntzhr'> In a letter from prison published by IranWire, while pointing to her poor physical condition, she said that since 2009, she has been under pressure and threatened to be "buried alive" by the security agencies to write a letter of repentance. In a part of this letter, it is stated that she has been suffering from illness and pain for three months that "she doesn't even know what it is" and the prison treatment staff have not taken any action to improve her condition except for prescribing painkillers. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='62391'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/rights-fa/womens-rights-fa/2024/08/02/p35478'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that Ms. Jalalian continues to be held alongside inmates convicted of common crimes, in violation of the principle of separation of offenses. Despite suffering from pterygium (an eye condition), kidney disease, and pain in her side, she has been denied adequate medical care in prison. According to the report, her repeated requests for transfer to medical centers outside the prison have consistently been rejected. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='64132'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-51008/'> HRANA reported that since September 2024, Ms. Jalalian has been denied family visits by order of the Ministry of Intelligence. According to the report, she suffers from pterygium (eye condition) as well as kidney and digestive illnesses. Recently, due to severe pain in her side, she was transferred to a hospital in handcuffs and shackles, underwent medical tests, and was then returned to prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='66308'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2025/hranews/a-52753/'> HRANA, reporting on Zeynab Jalalian’s deprivation of medical care, stated that she has also been denied contact with her family for over 100 days. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='67019'> <reference source='https://hengaw.net/fa/news/2025/02/article-182'> Hengaw reported that despite suffering from pterygium (eye growth), oral thrush, asthma, and kidney and digestive disorders, and while her eyesight is at serious risk, she continues to be denied medical treatment and access to healthcare services due to the ongoing opposition of prison authorities. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='68445'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2025/hranews/a-54777/'> According to a report by HRANA, Ms. Jalalian is suffering from eye, kidney, and digestive illnesses, and despite nearly seven months having passed since her medical tests, she has not been provided with the results. The report states that due to obstruction by prison officials, she has been denied transfer to a hospital, a situation that has increased her family’s concern for her well-being. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>