Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan has sentenced Kurdish Sunni cleric Barzan Maleki to one year in prison and permanently stripped him of his clerical status on charges of “propaganda against

Kurdish Sunni cleric Barzan Maleki was taken into custody on 26 May after being summoned to the Speical Clerical Court of Hamadan. Maleki, who is an imam and religious instructor at the Sheikheyn

Security forces blocked the Sanandaj-Dehgolan road in Kurdistan Province and arrested Sunni Kurdish cleric Barzan Maleki and several of his students on 27 January as they were travelling to Zahedan,