News Center- The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has announced that Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, who is behind bars in Yazd prison, will go on a hunger strike in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners, who go on a hunger strike today to protest the recent executions of protesters in Iran, including the execution of young protester Mohammad Ghobadlou.

 “Although Zeinab Jalalian has been held in solitary confinement in Yazd prison and her phone calls are severely restricted, she announced that she would go on a hunger strike on Thursday to be in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners in Evin prison,” the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said.

After Mohammad Ghobadlou was executed on Tuesday (January 23, 2024), 61 female political prisoners jailed in Tehran’s Evin prison announced that they would go on a hunger strike on Thursday to protest the recent executions in Iran, including the execution of young protester Mohammad Ghovadlou.

Zeynab Jalalian is a Kurdish women's rights activist, who was sentenced to death by an Islamic Revolutionary Court on charges of “enmity against God” in 2008.