Zeynab Jalaliyan, a Kurdish female political activist, has been sentenced to death for membership of a Kurdish opposition organisation. The 27-year-old Ms. Jalaliyan is a lawyer and lives in Maku, in Azerbaijan province (north-western Iran).
According to Ms. Jalaliyan's family, she was arrested eight months ago in the city of Kermanshah (in Iranian Kurdistan), and was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry's detention centre. There has been no news about her situation or state of health since her arrest eight months ago.
Ms. Jalaliyan was found to be a mohareb (enemy of God) after a trial held behind closed doors and lasting just a few minutes.
Zeynab Jalaliyan's death sentence raises the number of Kurdish activists sentenced to death in Iran during the past two years to 13.
They are:
1. Ramezan AhmadSource: Student Council of Defence of Human Rights in Kurdistan