Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Orumiyeh court sentences Kurdish religious activist to jail term

The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has sentenced Kurdish Sunni activist Jafar Osafi to seven years and six months in prison for “membership in religious extremist groups”. On 31 July, the court officially notified the activist detained in Orumiyeh Central Prison since June 2020. Jafar Osafi is a religious activist from Bukan and one of the admins of a Sunni religious telegram channel about answering questions...

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