Human rights sources report the continued “lack of medical care” for Zeinab Jalalian and state that the authorities of Yazd prison are opposing the repeated requests of this political prisoner for transfer to medical centers outside the prison.
According to these reports, a source close to Zeinab Jalalian‘s family confirmed that this political prisoner “has been suffering from multiple physical problems for a long time,” but judicial authorities do not accept her “requests” for hospital transfer.
This political prisoner “is kept with general crime prisoners without observing the principle of separation of crimes” and “suffers from pterygium (eye condition), kidney, and gastrointestinal diseases.” She also “suffers from severe side pain.”
Zeinab Jalalian, a native of Maku, was arrested in 2007 and in 2009 was sentenced to one year of imprisonment for “illegal exit from the country” and to death for “enmity against God due to membership in opposition groups.” Her death sentence was confirmed by the appeals court and the Supreme Court, but later commuted to life imprisonment.
Ms. Jalalian has stated that during her detention she was subjected to torture methods such as flogging on the soles of her feet, punching in the stomach, banging her head against the wall, and threats of rape.
International human rights authorities, including United Nations reporters, have repeatedly called on the Iranian regime’s authorities to end this situation.
