Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Special Clerical Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish cleric Ebrahim Salimi to three years in prison on charges of "acting against national security" and "disturbing public opinion". Salimi, the Imam of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, was summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence in Piranshahr on 31 January and arrested for signing a statement in...

Iranian security forces arrested a cleric and a student of religious studies in Piranshahr and Javanrud as part of the ongoing wave of arrests of Kurdish Sunni figures. On 31 January, Ebrahim Salimi, the imam of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, was detained after being summoned to the office of the Ministry of Intelligence in the city. He had previously been...