Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian from Eastern Kurdistan has been held in a solitary cell in Keman for two and a half months, reported the Kurdish Human Rights Network on Wednesdasy. The 38-year-old Kurdish woman reported to her family by telephone that her prison conditions are very bad. The prison management is said to have promised her a transfer to Xoy prison if she pays the transport costs herself.

The activist, who has been imprisoned for thirteen years, was transferred from Xoy prison at the end of April, without giving any reasons, via Urmia, Kermanshah and the notorious Evin prison to the Qarchak prison in Waramin, south of the Iranian capital. Another transfer to Kerman took place on June 27.

For some time now, Zeynab Jalalian has been able to call her family once a week. The telephone call is made under supervision and can only be made in Persian. The parents of Jalalian speak only little Persian.

Zeynab Jalalian, born in 1982 in Maku, was arrested in summer 2008 in Kermanshah and sentenced to death in January 2009 for alleged membership in the "Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan" (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê - PJAK). The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in November 2011.