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1) I’m a proud signatory of #theLetter published in #Harpers, calling for justice and open debate. Some have dismissed it as a statement by a “privileged” few. The term privileged

4-Later in 2008, Jalalian was arrested by the Intelligence service of the Islamic Republic of Iran. To Iran’s rulers, the mere affiliation with the PJAK, especially as a Kurdish woman,

1-Meet Zeynab Jalalian, one of Iran’s longest serving political prisoners. She's been imprisoned since 2008. Her crime? She wanted to improve conditions of Kurdish women. The world has forgotten about