Kurdish female political prisoner Zeynep Celaliyan exiled
NEWS CENTER (DİHA) - Kurdish political prisoner Zeynep Celaliyan has been transferred to Khoy prison since two months ago and still is suffering from eye disease.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Zeynep Celaliyan has been transferred from women’s ward of Kermanshan prison in East Kurdistan (Rojhelat) to central prison of Khoy almost two months ago. Khoy prison does not have special ward for political prisoners. Although Zeynep Celaliyan is suffering from an eye disease, but her general condition is acceptable and has contact with her layers (Dr. Mohammad Sharif and Amir Salar Davoodi) regularly.
Zeynep Celaliyan was arrested in 2008 by intelligence service of Kermanshan on charge of cooperation with Kurdish parties. She was first sentenced to death in revolutionary court, but the sentence was reduced to lifetime prison in appeal court. This political prisoner has been under extreme pressure and many times carried out hunger strikes in protest to her condition.
Zeynab Jalalian was arrested in Kermanshah for alleged ties with Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and sentenced on 14 January 2009 to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Court following a trial which lasted seven minutes without her lawyer. The court retracted the death sentence in December of 2011.
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