An open letter from REDRESS and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, signed by 22 human rights organisations and 13 individuals, calls on Iran to provide urgent medical treatment to Zeinab Jalalian, the country’s longest-held female political prisoner. Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish women’s rights activist, was handed a death sentence in 2008, later commuted to life imprisonment, after a deeply flawed trial. She is currently held in Yazd Central Prison, where at least eight prisoners — including one woman — were reportedly executed in the past two months. Despite suffering from several potentially life-threatening illnesses, Iranian authorities have consistently denied Zeinab access to the medical care she urgently needs for proper diagnosis and treatment.
