Kurdish woman activist Zeynep Jalaliyan who has been held in an Iranian prison since 2008 is facing the risk of blindness due to the harsh prison conditions she has been subjected to, according to Hrana news agency.

Zeynep Jalaliyan, held in Dizil Abadi jail in Kermanshah city of East Kurdistan, is being denied treatment both in and out of the prison despite the progression of her disease.

The woman activist is reported to be suffering from sight impairment because of the torture and assaults she was subjected to in custody. Last Wednesday, she was denied visit by her family.

Jalaliyan was arrested in Kermanshah for alleged ties with Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and sentenced on 14 January 2009 to death by the Revolutionary Court following a trial which lasted seven minutes without her lawyer. The court retracted the death sentence in December of 2011.

Kurdish women's organizations and many international human rights organizations including the Amnesty International have launched campaigns so far for the retraction of the death penalty and her release in the shortest time.

Hasan Hikmet Demir was the first PJAK member hanged in Iran in 2007. This was followed by the execution of İhsan Fetahiyan on 11 November 2009, Fesih Yasemini on 6 January 2010, and Kurdish teachers Farzad Kemanger, Ferhad Wekili, Eli Heydariyan and Sirin Elem Hulu on 9 May 2010.