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March 6, 2010

Kurdish political prisoner on death row, Zainab Jalalian, has not been heard from since her transfer last week to the Intelligence Ministry in Kermanshah.

RAHANA – Zainab Jalalian was arrested two years ago for alleged links to Pezhak, an armed Kurdish group. She was subsequently found guilty of Moharebeh (enmity with God) and sentenced to death. The verdict was upheld in appeal in December of 2009 and can be carried out at any moment.

According to Irangreenvoice, last week Jalalian was transferred from a Kermanshah correctional facility to Intelligence Ministry’s detention center in the city.

In the past, Jalalian was pressured by the Intelligence Ministry to make televised confessions. The reasons behind the recent transfer remain unknown.

Jalalian fled her home when she was 10 after her family prevented her from attending school. She then joined the PKK which at the time was a legal organization in Iran, but was outlawed after its Iranian wing Pezhak, took up arms against the Islamic republic.

During her interrogations Jalalian maintained that she never took up arms and her involvement was limited to propaganda activities.

Currently there are 17 Kurdish prisoners on death row in Iran.

1-Zainab Jalalian

2-Habib Lotfi

3-Shirkoo Mo’arefi

4-Jamal Mohammadi

5-Sami Hosseini

6-Rostam Arkia

7-Rashid Akhkandi

8-Hossein Khezri

9-Farzad Kamangar

10-Ali Haydarian

11-Farhad Vakili

12-Mostafa Salimi

13-Anvar Rostami

14-Mohammad Amin Agooshi

15-Iraj Mohammadi

16-Ahmad Pouladkhani

17-Hossein Tale’i