Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Barzan Maleki is an imam and religious instructor at the Sheikheyn Grand Mosque in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. Arrest Maleki was arrested on 26 May 2025, following a summons to the Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, and transferred to the quarantine ward of the city’s central prison. The day before his arrest, he had been summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence office in Sanandaj, where he was interrogated...

Loghman Amini, the Friday prayer leader of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque and a religious studies teacher in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, was previously detained by security forces on 30 January 2023 on the road from Sanandaj to Marivan, Kurdistan Province, in the midst of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising. He was provisionally released on bail on 22 February of that year, pending trial. Subsequently, the...