Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, in north-west Iran, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish cleric Hossein Ali-Moradi to 16 months in prison. Ali-Moradi, who is the director of the Ebrahim Khalilollah School of Religious Studies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, was charged with "acting against national security" and "propaganda against the state". In April, in a separate case, the court sentenced Ali-Moradi to two years of suspended imprisonment...

Iran has sentenced a Kurdish Sunni cleric to a suspended prison term and arrested two other clerics over the past few days. The Special Clerical Court of Hamadan, in western Iran, summoned and tried Hossein Ali-Moradi, the director of the Ebrahim Khalilollah School of Religious Studies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 3 April. The court sentenced Ali-Moradi to two years of suspended imprisonment on charges of...