The life of Şirin Elumhuli, a guerrilla of the Kurdistan Free Life Party, (PJAK), who was executed in Iran in 2010, has been published as a book.

Two letters written by her and many photographs were included in the book.

The novel was published under the title Pepûleya Azadiyê (Freedom Butterfly) and written by a PKK prisoner. The novel, edited by Dersim Omar, and published by the J&J publishing house, will first be made public at the Istanbul Book Festival.

The writer of the novel, Ehmedê Bilokiyê, sentenced in a PKK trial, has been in prison since 1993. Since being imprisoned, Ehmedê Bilokiyê has written many books, while the novel Pepûleya Azadiyê about the life of Şirin Elemhuli is his first fictional work.

Şirin Elumhuli, a Kurdish woman revolutionary, was sentenced to death in Iran because of “opposition to Iran and pursuing destructive activities against Iran”, and was hanged on 9 May 2010 together with three other Kurdish political prisoners, Eli Heydariyan, Ferhad Wekîlî and Mehdî İslamiyan.