Barzan Maleki Archives - KHRN

January 30, 2025

Sunni Kurdish clerics prevented from travelling to Zahedan for religious ceremony

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, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, to attend a religious gathering. Maleki, the prayer leader and teacher at the Sheikheyn Grand Mosque in Sanandaj, and his students were detained for several hours before being forced to return...

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