Sunni Kurdish clerics Loghman Amini and Ebrahim Karimi Nanaleh were summoned to appear before the Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, north-west Iran, on 7 June.

Earlier on 30 January, security forces arrested Amini, the imam of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque in Sanandaj, and Karimi Nanaleh, the imam of the Nanaleh village mosque in Sanandaj.

After arresting Karimi Nanaleh, security forces raided and searched his family’s home in the village of Nanaleh.

The two clerics were released on bail on 22 February.

Since late March, the Special Clerical Court of Hamadan has sentenced at least six Sunni Kurdish clerics, Hossein Ali-Moradi, Saber Khoda-Moradi, Arman Sadeghi and Seyyed Jalal Akbari, to suspended prison sentences, lashes and the revocation of clerical status for speaking out in support of anti-government protests in Sanandaj, Saqqez, Dehgolan and Sarvabad.